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I would like to do this trip, too, one day. I have read and watched YouTube videos of a couple of folks who have driven the Alaska Highway through Canada to Alaska. There's even an example of a father-son trip in a Chevy Bolt. You can find them by searching. From what I recall, you can make it...

I briefly considered zig-zagging home to get a few more chargers, but instead got back in time to make the cook-out at the in-laws. I did spot to stretch my legs at the New River Gorge National Park visitor center. It was about halfway between Sutton and Princeton, WV, on US-19. There's a nice...

Just one supercharger all day today. Check-ins for 2024-05-26 - McHenry, MD (#567) However, I did bag two (2) more state high points. The Tesla Nav routed me by the parking lot near the top of Mount David in Pennsylvania, but Apple Maps showed me how to continue around to the trailhead, where...

Day 2 of a four-day weekend trip. Check-ins for 2024-05-25 - La Vale, MD (#565) - Cumberland, MD (#566) Only two superchargers in total today, because... The goal for the day was to hike up to the West Virginia high point, Spruce Knob. (4183' elevation). I started at a forest service road...

Happened to be driving up I-177 today, so I stopped at the Publix to look for any sign of construction, but there is none yet. I drove all the way around the parking lot. I suspect the chargers would go along the left side island (as you are facing Publix), or in the left back corner. Both...

Heading north to do a little hiking/high-pointing this weekend. Check-ins for 2024-05-24 - Blacksburg, VA (#559) - Salem - Apperson Dr, VA (#560) - Roanoke, VA (#561) - Lexington - E Nelson St, VA (#562) - Raphine, VA (#563) - Stuarts Draft, VA (#564) Broke up the drive by stopping at...

Over the past 3 years, several sites that have looked "ready to go" have taken various amounts of time, weeks and sometimes months, to actually get powered on. The worst case I know of was Chapel Hill, NC. It looked done in January 2022 but didn't open until July of that year. (In that case...

Looks ready to turn on, but no power yet. The meter is on and reading all 0s. 16 stalls: 9 flat, and 7 sideways. The supercharger is on the outer edge of the main parking lot, behind the Chick-Fil-A, IHOP, and Freddy’s Frozen Custard. There is 1 CCS/CHAdeMo 50kW ChargePoint, and 4 ChargePoint...

On a college road trip back in the 90s, my friends and I were driving through the night down I-20, when we stopped to take a picture of the exit sign for Chunky, MS, because we thought it was a funny name. About half an hour later, a little before dawn, we stopped at another exit to switch...

I had the opposite experience when I first got a 2021 MY LR three years ago: the miles remaining dropped faster than the miles I was driving. I soon switched to percentage instead and I've been happier ever since. I think Tesla does occasionally tweak their estimation algorithm during OTA...

I've only charged at that hotel at the original Ozona site twice, but they were polite to me both times. I read the back-story between my two visits, so I made a point of buying a candy bar from the lady behind the desk on my second visit. She seems very friendly, and we made some small talk...

Ok, that's weird. I just went to check in my iPhone app, and Covington is not there now. @sajakh , Have you stopped by Covington yet, and when you do, would you post here what you've found?

Based on an email sent to contractors by Tesla a few days after the firings and reported on the Out of Spec Podcast, Tesla has asked contractors to continue work on locations that they have "started", but to pause on any locations that have not "broken ground". Thats would seem to indicate that...

As @ChrisC pointed out on another thread,

As @ChrisC pointed out on another thread,

The order in which a new site appears after it goes live: In the phone app, often the same day or next day after it's live. In the car nav, often about the same time as the phone app, but sometimes a day or two later. (I don't know why.) On the Tesla Find Us page on the website, anywhere from...

Friend of mine charged there a few days ago, and posted that only 1 cabinet (so 4 stalls) were down, but the rest were online. For some reason, the app/nav lists it as a temporary closure, but if you click on it, you'll see that only stalls 1A through 1D are down...

You may find this series of road trip films interesting to give you ideas. They are all with ICE cars, but they emphasize enjoying the drive and seeing beautiful, and sometimes quirky, things along the way. At one point, they point out that can relate a little to EV drivers about range anxiety...

We visited my wife's grandmother again yesterday. Check-ins for 2024-04-27 - Gainesville, GA (#557) - Gaffney, SC (#558) I charged up to 100% right before we left in the morning, and we pulled into the new-to-me Gainesville supercharger with about 16%. I really hate driving that far in one...

Monarch Pass is the coolest route over the mountains, but it takes forever. I've only done it in an ICE car so far, but I'll be visiting in-laws in Utah in July and would have been tempted to take this route, so thanks for the warning.

I think you made the right call about Franklin, NC, because very recent pics show it completely fenced off and pedestals torn up. However, if you were already in Sylva, the drive down to Franklin on US-23 is mostly on a gently curving 5-lane highway. (You may be remembering US-64 through the...

If you haven't been to Wright Memorial at Kitty Hawk, NC, I thought it was well worth the trip. It's also a good reason to get several off-the-beaten path superchargers, even if you aren't a beach person.

It looks like the Hampton Inn in Stony Creek has Tesla destination chargers, and I've found that Hampton Inns usually keep their chargers in good repair. If you are able to make it a little further, there are also several hotels in Ashland, VA, just north of Richmond that offer free destination...

I'm usually in Charlotte, but I'll likely be up in Hendersonville, NC, this coming weekend. If the Franklin, NC, supercharger gets back online by then, I'll try for it one of the weekend days. There is also a Porsche car show on Saturday in Brevard.

Doesn't Raphine itself split the Williamsburg, VA, to Lewisburg, WV, gap?

In case you missed it, I wanted to warn you about Franklin, NC. It's been marked as Temporary Closure since yesterday, and there is now one of those temporary fences around it. So, you may want to shoot down and clear Florida first, before getting all the new-to-you ones in the NC mountains.

Blue Ridge Community College put in two EV Connect CCS/CHAdeMo stations on their campus near Hendersonville a few months ago. It's highly rated on PlugShare. There's also the two Shell Recharge/Duke Energy units at the Marathon store at the Saluda exit off I-26 a few miles south of...

Temp closures can vary wildly in duration, from a few minutes to several days. Often the case that by the time you drive there, at least some of the posts will be available. If you are road-tripping and need a charge, the Asheville, NC - Thetford St. supercharger is only about 15 miles north of...

Check-ins for 2024-04-13 - Burlington - Garden Rd, NC (#556) (First to check-in) Between lunch with my son and a history lecture at UNC-CH, I drove over to Leath VinFast near Raleigh and test-drove a VF8. Not a bad EV in isolation, and they are desperate to sell them.Too bad they already have a...

First alert! I'll be getting Burlington, NC - Garden Rd tomorrow (Saturday) morning, probably sometime between 11am – 12noon. Heading to Chapel Hill to visit my son, and then see some old college friends who will be in town.

I charged here back on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Sorry I forgot to post a confirmation here; I did post photos over in the Superchargers Visited thread.

I seem to recall someone posting on one of the supercharger site threads, that a site can show as Down in the nav if it's internet connection is not good, and so Tesla cannot determine its current status. Not sure if that is the case here.

We worked from Amack's Well coffee shop in downtown Batesville, IN, so we could see the eclipse. We gambled and won: almost perfect weather for the 3 minutes of totality. We stayed another night in Batesville, to avoid the traffic after the eclipse, but in exchange we got bad rain all through...

I have confirmed with my own eyes that the "Fort Mitchell" supercharger is in fact in Fort Wright, KY. My wife and I drove up to southeastern Indiana for the eclipse tomorrow, and we stopped there to charge. The restaurant at the other end of the little shopping center in front of the Fort...

I picked up a few new superchargers on the way from Charlotte to Batesville, IN, for the eclipse tomorrow. I got a first at the Fort Mitchell, KY, site, which is actually in Fort Wright, as several locals over in its thread here on TMC pointed out. Check-ins for 2024-04-07 - Marmet, WV (#545) -...

First alert! Fort Mitchell, KY I woke up feeling like I've finally beaten the cold I had, so my wife and I are heading to Indiana to see the eclipse. (We already have reservations in Batesville.)

When I bought my Model Y back in June 2021, the promotion was "Use someone's referral, and you both get 1,000 free supercharging miles". I'm not certain, but it seems like Tesla used a simple 1 kWh = 3 miles conversion when I supercharged, until those were used up.

I believe all of you, but now we need to convince Tesla to update the name in their nav/Find Us. We try to keep the threads in sync with what they call the superchargers. Assuming the weather forecast doesn't get any worse, I'll actually be passing through Cincinnati on Sunday on the way to see...

My 2021 MY has USS, and I received software update 2024.3.10 last night, which includes a 1-month free trial of FSD. I've done a couple of drives with it, and it's much improved from over 2 years ago, when I subscribed for 3 months and had to wait for my Safety Score to qualify. Still not sure...

I don't know Cincinnati geography that well, but Google Maps, the Tesla Find Us page, and the Tesla phone app all agree in saying this location is in Fort Mitchell, KY. (Not in the car nav yet.) I'm going to update this thread's title. Someone has already updated the pin over on suercharge.info.

I don't think you have to worry much about slow traffic. In contrast to an ICE car, the slower the pace of traffic, the better your efficiency in an electric vehicle. In stop-and-go traffic, the extra regen will increase efficiency, and more than balance out any extra time spent using climate...

I see a new Coming Soon pin over Burlington in the Tesla Find Us page. Could someone local go by this location and post pics for confirmation?

Covered a lot of my home state this week Check-ins for 2024-03-19 - Durham - Fayetteville Rd, NC (#542) Check-ins for 2024-03-22 - Hendersonville, NC (#543) Check-ins for 2024-03-23 - Sylva, NC (#544) (First to check-in) The drive to Sylva is beautiful, but @theflyer will be disappointed by...

First alert for tomorrow, Saturday, 23 March: Sylva, NC (A hike I had planned to do was canceled on account of rain, so I will attend the WNC Drive Electric Event in Clyde, NC, and then head down to Sylva when that winds down, by 4pm.)

This is showing as live in the phone app today, although it looks like a lot of the stalls aren’t working yet.

Still no sign of supercharger construction in any of the likely spots. (pics from Saturday, 9 March 2024)

Nice find, @scottf200 ! Unfortunately, it's still not showing up in the Tesla phone app, or my car's navigation. It's usually shows up in those two places within a day of the site going live. Keep checking those to see when it is actually available for charging.

Had to visit my hometown to visit a sick family member. Went a little out of the way to charge at the new Lumberton, NC, site. On @Thinkje 's recommendation, I had lunch at the Mexican restaurant there. It was very good. Check-ins for 2024-03-09 - Lumberton - W 5th St, NC (#541)

If all legacy BMWs eventually are allowed to charge at superchargers, and I get an adapter, would a check-in from our i3 count, as long as I drove at least halfway? </half-joking>

The only food I got in Bishop was some frozen yogurt at Good Earth Yogurt on Main Street. (I was craving ice cream, and it was the next best thing.) Yes, I went in from the west side, and drove all the way through to the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, before going on down to Badwater Basin...