.....and she said she'd veto any future purchase and that she's done with electric cars.
We swapped cars tonight and she took the Tesla home and I took her Lexus and stayed at work in the Bay Area. She stopped in Manteca to charge. Pulled into 1A and only got 29 amps(about 10KW). After about 5 minutes she moved to 3B and got 129 amps(about 45KW) at 20% SOC(should have been at least 113KW).
She was the only one at the location. No other Tesla was charging.
I called Tesla while she was charging slow and was told they already know about this and that 1 and 3 are operating at reduced capacity. Manteca has been like this for months and it kills me that I didn't send her south through Gilroy instead. I just figured they'd have had this fixed by now. Big mistake.
When it's just me, it's no big deal. If I need to move 1 or 2 times to get a stall with a decent charge rate, I'll do it. But this is not something she's willing to put up with. I guess I can't blame her. It's a big bummer because I can't really give her a good argument as to why this should be acceptable. She called it a stupid $100K car again
What's worse is that Tesla already knows about this and isn't telling customers to prefer known good stalls over known bad stalls. In this case, an entirely different route was just about as fast and had we/she known, could have gone an entirely different way.
I will swap you my wife's 2011 prius for the Tesla.
