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BTW remember when so many were calling for BK due to the Tesla bond debt payments?
Tesla’s debt close to investment grade after S&P upgrade
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Reisender wrote:But yah. Hefty maintenance schedule and huge difference in fuel costs. It is the unscheduled maintenance of that BMW that has people trading them in just a few years.
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Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Specially or more of us with high mileage.
Kinda funny. One of the cars we sat in before we got the Tesla model 3 was the BMW in the article. We were using it more as a reference for fit and finish etc. Nice car and nicely done inside. Definitely a German higher end feel. Lots of buttons though. Kinda busy. Still, nice car. About the same price as a Tesla standard range plus model 3. A little slower. But yah. Hefty maintenance schedule and huge difference in fuel costs. (Depends where you are I suppose). Driving electric is stupid cheap compared to fossil cars. But then again, fossil cars do some things quite well. Depends what you need it to do. For the long distance 100 km plus per day commuter it’s hard to beat electric though.
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Specially or more of us with high mileage.
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Most EVs are $6,000-$10,000 cheaper to operate than an equivalent ICE vehicle
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Yosemite Sam1 wrote:Reisender wrote:Groover wrote:Reisender wrote:One thing I have learned about Superchargers is you have to park just right or the cable doesn’t reach. I don’t think the Cybertruck will be able to hook up to more than one Supercharger at a time. It would be cool but I don’t think it would be possible.
I have seen videos of the prototypes hooking up to three chargers at once. They do have to use a wiring harness. Obviously not something for the average user but it does illustrate some possibilities and capabilities.
Semi fast charging
There ya go. Simple approach works. I think it gets more complex with V3’s because of the liquid cooled cables but I’m sure there is a solution for that as well.
Of the Tesla tech challenges, this must be their easiest. However, space constraints will be more difficult specially in the more congested cities with the larger units, ie, semis and Cybertrucks, or as they sell more cars. It is now an issue for my daughter currently.
We are seeing both small incremental expansions here as well as entirely new Supercharger sites going in. For example. The Kamloops Supercharger site went from four to six stalls this month. (All V2). But the town of Princeton is expected to open up their new 8 stall Supercharger anyday. I think they are all V3. But at least in this area they are still coming kinda slow. The north central and Kootenays areas of B.C. are well served by the other networks so as long as you have the adapter you are ok, but they are considerably slower than the Superchargers. And of course you are limited by the 50 KW max speed of the adapter. It will be interesting to see if Tesla (or third party) makes a faster 100 KW or faster adapter for the CCS format. That would be nice. Or just a faster Chademo adapter. All of the Petrocan Chademo and CCS connectors are 100 KW.
Time will tell.
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Reisender wrote:Groover wrote:Reisender wrote:One thing I have learned about Superchargers is you have to park just right or the cable doesn’t reach. I don’t think the Cybertruck will be able to hook up to more than one Supercharger at a time. It would be cool but I don’t think it would be possible.
I have seen videos of the prototypes hooking up to three chargers at once. They do have to use a wiring harness. Obviously not something for the average user but it does illustrate some possibilities and capabilities.
Semi fast charging
There ya go. Simple approach works. I think it gets more complex with V3’s because of the liquid cooled cables but I’m sure there is a solution for that as well.
Of the Tesla tech challenges, this must be their easiest. However, space constraints will be more difficult specially in the more congested cities with the larger units, ie, semis and Cybertrucks, or as they sell more cars. It is now an issue for my daughter currently.
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Groover wrote:Reisender wrote:One thing I have learned about Superchargers is you have to park just right or the cable doesn’t reach. I don’t think the Cybertruck will be able to hook up to more than one Supercharger at a time. It would be cool but I don’t think it would be possible.
I have seen videos of the prototypes hooking up to three chargers at once. They do have to use a wiring harness. Obviously not something for the average user but it does illustrate some possibilities and capabilities.
Semi fast charging
There ya go. Simple approach works. I think it gets more complex with V3’s because of the liquid cooled cables but I’m sure there is a solution for that as well.
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Reisender wrote:One thing I have learned about Superchargers is you have to park just right or the cable doesn’t reach. I don’t think the Cybertruck will be able to hook up to more than one Supercharger at a time. It would be cool but I don’t think it would be possible.
I have seen videos of the prototypes hooking up to three chargers at once. They do have to use a wiring harness. Obviously not something for the average user but it does illustrate some possibilities and capabilities.
Semi fast charging
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time2roll wrote:No. Full power to 100% is the only option for all charging. You can manually stop the charging if desired.
Charging and the charging timer on I-Pace is a general disaster. I just avoid it and plug in as needed.
That’s what we did with the leaf. Then we got a Juicebox and were able to (approximately) control the max charge. Eg 70, 80, 90 percent etc. You essentially tell the Juicebox about the car, battery capacity etc, and then at the beginning of a charge session you tell it what your remaining charge is and what percentage of charge you want and it kind of guesstimates when to terminate the charge. Fairly close.
With the juice box you can also control the max charge current from 6 to 40 amps. It worked well. All wifi control etc. We sold it after we sold the Leaf after I retired. Good product though.
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