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Re: Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging

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Post by corint »

michaelt wrote: post #164
SnowingXIV wrote: post #38

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Can you speak more to this? Similar situation. Interested in a Tesla but live in an apartment without a station but during winter have well below freezing and sub zero temps. Seems difficult.

You might enjoy this chap's videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/bjornnyland/videos He's in Sweden, so it's pretty cold, and he tests a bunch of EV models on a bunch of fast chargers. It has some of the usual flaws Youtube content does, but he seems a lot more thorough and better informed than most car journalism.

Not quite, he lives in Norway.. but yes, his content is incredibly interesting!

Re: Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging

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Post by tomp »

beefman wrote: post #97

I'll not take another road trip in my Tesla after dealing with the complete lack of bathrooms between San Jose and Davis -- including at Tesla Livermore which 1. shouldn't really have been closed at that hour and 2. should leave their bathrooms open after they close and 3. there's no excuse for not providing bathrooms at every supercharger station. Oh yeah, and we only put on about a mile a minute despite the charger…

So when you drive a gas car bathrooms just magically appear in front of you?

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Post by heavenlyblue »

lekevicius wrote: post #167
jve wrote: post #146

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Germany is building a wired one on A1 (5km length). Overhead contact line for trucks and looks ugly: http://www.thedrive.com/news/13448/germany-to-install-overhe...

I'm getting a wall: No Access The web page you were trying to visit is not accessible in your country. Lithuania (Europe) here. Is this GDPR thing or something more?

I am in UK and it's all fine.

Re: Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging

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Post by gliptic »

Waterluvian wrote: post #173

Possibly stupid question. Instead of charging 1 battery slowly, why can't we charge 50 little batteries in parallel and connect them all back together after?

This is exactly what happens. The "battery" in an electric car is hundreds or thousands of smaller battery cells.

Re: Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging

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Post by rcMgD2BwE72F »

atq2119 wrote: post #85
Zanni wrote: post #79

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Yeah, this is closing the gap in a significant way. It's still not "charge on the way to work" fast, but it wouldn't be a painful delay on the way home. More important, it's an improvement . I still switch back and forth between my Model S and an ICE car--I can't remember a time when the gas station experience ever got better .

One of the big benefits of electric in my view is that you can just let it charge overnight in your own garage. There's simply no need to charge on the way to work. (Yeah, this only works if you do have a garage, but that covers a lot of people.)

>There's simply no need to charge on the way to work

Why not simply charge at work?

It makes little sense to charge on route vs at destination; unless your commute is longer than your battery range, but you would probably not have purchased an EV.

Re: Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging

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Post by NoblePublius »

SnowingXIV wrote: post #38
azhenley wrote: post #11

This is awesome. I'm particularly happy about the on-route battery warming. Since I can't charge at my apartment, I tend to charge my car in the morning. If it is around freezing temperatures, it will charge at a rate of 0 miles per hour.

Can you speak more to this? Similar situation. Interested in a Tesla but live in an apartment without a station but during winter have well below freezing and sub zero temps. Seems difficult.

I have a Model 3 in Brooklyn. Thankfully I have a garage where I can charge. Winter definitely makes it harder to charge and to keep charge. I spend about $1 per day to maintain charge level in winter. It’s about 30 cents in Summer.

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Post by NoblePublius »

fudged71 wrote: post #90
azhenley wrote: post #45

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I've gotten used to it and do just fine not being able to charge at home. I have chargers at my work but still choose to mostly use the nearby supercharger. When I would use the supercharger on cold mornings, it would charge at 0mph for 10-15 minutes and then slowly increase. The worst I saw was it stayed at a rate of 25mph for over an hour before I finally had to leave. However, using a regular wall socket has consi…

Are you at all able to pre-warm the car, like when you wake up and have breakfast, so it is ready to go?

Yes. The app does this. Seat warmers too

Re: Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging

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Post by xedeon »

mtgx wrote: post #49
cma wrote: post #28

The much bigger news is they completely walked back FSD (full self-driving) into something that you have to monitor at all times by changing the description on their website. The release of a proprietary charger is somehow completely overshadowing that news. It's changed from driving itself around in a ride hailing network to earn you money while you sleep, to now making you always be in the car and pay attention and…

Precisely why I said in the past here that it was a big mistake to fit all model 3s with self-driving hardware making the car significantly more expensive in terms of cost to build. Musk once again overestimated by a long shot how good and safe autopilot will be. At least it seems he is becoming more responsible or maybe he is forced to by the new board.

>Precisely why I said in the past here that it was a big mistake to fit all model 3s with self-driving hardware making the car significantly more expensive in terms of cost to build.

Why? data, that's why. You need massive amounts of good quality data to build a solid model that will be 99.9999% accurate. This is one of the leverage Tesla has against Waymo.

You can simulate all you want but nothing beats real world data.

Re: Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging

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Post by xedeon »

kristofferR wrote: post #158
natch wrote: post #128

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Tesla has repeatedly offered access to their supercharging network to any car company that wants to use it, but nobody has taken them up on it.

They claim that, but nobody knows the details. The deal they offer other car companies may be completely unreasonable, who knows. They would still be correct that they "offered access" though, so it doesn't mean anything.

They have. From what I know, other companies that they had talks with want to change the spec instead of just adopting it.

Which is pretty absurd since they are already getting the tech without spending resources on R&D. Yet, they want more control.

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