Tesla Supercharging ?

[Luxrage]

My work just installed a fleet of NACS chargers that charge at $.05 kw/hr. The downside is they are very strict on parking and will charge out the ears if you leave your car 'fully charged' for longer than an hour. Which is great for a factory where I can't just get up and leave at random lol

I was reading that part of the reason New Jersey was removing Tesla superchargers from their turnpike was that they wanted them to be usable without a dedicated app. I'm not against using a Tesla app for charging, but then again it's no different than me using the QT app for discount gas.

 

[metroshot]

My work just installed a fleet of NACS chargers that charge at $.05 kw/hr. The downside is they are very strict on parking and will charge out the ears if you leave your car 'fully charged' for longer than an hour. Which is great for a factory where I can't just get up and leave at random lol

I was reading that part of the reason New Jersey was removing Tesla superchargers from their turnpike was that they wanted them to be usable without a dedicated app. I'm not against using a Tesla app for charging, but then again it's no different than me using the QT app for discount gas.

I assume it's a L2 (240V) Tesla Destination charger ?

Just like DCFC Tesla Superchargers which have a $1/minute IDLE fees once you surpass a full charge.

 

[Luxrage]

I assume it's a L2 (240V) Tesla Destination charger ?

Just like DCFC Tesla Superchargers which have a $1/minute IDLE fees once you surpass a full charge.

I looked at em up close and they're ChargePoint chargers. I did some digging around and matched it to these https://www.chargepoint.com/businesses/stations/ct4000 I thought they were NACS but I guess not. I'll have to ask the Tesla owner when he comes in next shift if he has used them yet. I see someone with one of those massive Hummer EVs using it almost daily. It looks like it only provides 7.2Kw/hr max. This is in an employee only parking area where shifts range from 8 - 12 hours so charging speed isn't really a priority.

It looks like you have an hour to get your car off the charger before the first dollar is charged, and I appreciate it's at least $1 per hour and not per minute after.

 

[GaRailroader]

I looked at em up close and they're ChargePoint chargers. I did some digging around and matched it to these https://www.chargepoint.com/businesses/stations/ct4000 I thought they were NACS but I guess not. I'll have to ask the Tesla owner when he comes in next shift if he has used them yet. I see someone with one of those massive Hummer EVs using it almost daily. It looks like it only provides 7.2Kw/hr max. This is in an employee only parking area where shifts range from 8 - 12 hours so charging speed isn't really a priority.

It looks like you have an hour to get your car off the charger before the first dollar is charged, and I appreciate it's at least $1 per hour and not per minute after.

Most of the Level 2 ChargePoints are J-1772. I have an adapter to adapt it to use on the NACS on my Tesla. Nissan Leaf has the J-1772 natively for level 2. I think most of the non-Tesla's that have CCS can support J-1772 natively. The ChargePoint chargers at my employer are 6.6 kw and if 2 vehicles are plugged in to a post than you only get 3.3 per plug. My employer limits us to 4 hours of charging and then we have to move our car and let someone else charge. We have 34 plugs and probably 60 people on the property with EVs at one time on day shift.

 

[Adam W]

The downside is they are very strict on parking and will charge out the ears if you leave your car 'fully charged' for longer than an hour. Which is great for a factory where I can't just get up and leave at random lol

At the California offices for the tech company I do remote work for, the chargers were so popular that they ended up hiring a valet to shuffle cars throughout the workday. Fully optimizes the charger use rate, and keeps employees from having constant mid-day interruptions. They also have a mobile wash/detail service in the parking lot once a week that you could sign up for. It's the most California thing I've ever heard of!

 

[Luxrage]

At the California offices for the tech company I do remote work for, the chargers were so popular that they ended up hiring a valet to shuffle cars throughout the workday. Fully optimizes the charger use rate, and keeps employees from having constant mid-day interruptions. They also have a mobile wash/detail service in the parking lot once a week that you could sign up for. It's the most California thing I've ever heard of!

That's pretty amazing, I'll take count tonight how many chargers they put in. I'm in a factory that's still being built-out and is expecting to hire in the thousands by full build-out so I'm expecting a LOT of shuffling of chargers. I know our sister sites have group emails/chats about who's done charging when so if we start one here I'll bring up that idea and see if one of the higher ups likes it enough to make it happen LOL.

 

[Luxrage]

I had a chance to count them up tonight, currently 24 chargers with more marked spots for what looks like another 8. Although a few were in handicap spots. I was playing around with that "A Better Route Planner" website and it actually shows my work's chargers as available... despite them being behind a guarded gate. I checked plugshare and some of them are on the map and are reported as a 'workplace' so that's probably the label it should have.

 

[Benjamin Nead]

“I am confused” Doc Hudson.

As non-EV owner, I do not understand how it would be different than pulling up to a gas pump?

Tesla Supercharger cables are around 6+ feet long, although the newer V4 locations are using 9.5+ foot long cables. Still, that's pretty short by industry standards. All Teslas have their charging inlet on the driver's side rear. So, these cars traditionally back into the stalls to charge and, in such cases, cable length isn't really an issue.

The problem of charging inlet location started appearing when Tesla opened up its Superchargers to other makes of EVs. A worst case scenario would be something like the Ford F150 Lightning, which is a particularly large/long vehicle, with its charging inlet on the driver's side front. The only way that the short Supercharger cables would work in such a case is if the big electric truck were to pull into the adjacent stall, head first, using the cable from the one next to it . . . essentially using two stalls to charge one vehicle.

The Slate's J3400/NACS inlet is in the "correct" Tesla-preferred location: driver's side rear. This preserves Supercharger orthodoxy of backing the vehicle into the stall without taking up two spaces to charge. The other possible "correct" location for the inlet port would be passenger's side front. But this would let you pull the vehicle into the stall head first and, well . . . what would Elon say?

 

[Blackspots76]

I had a chance to count them up tonight, currently 24 chargers with more marked spots for what looks like another 8. Although a few were in handicap spots. I was playing around with that "A Better Route Planner" website and it actually shows my work's chargers as available... despite them being behind a guarded gate. I checked plugshare and some of them are on the map and are reported as a 'workplace' so that's probably the label it should have.

Anyone can edit the entry and add "restricted" to the location.

 

[metroshot]

Will the Slate be restricted to V3 and V4 Tesla Superchargers only ?

Ford, GM, and other brands are restricted to the newer chargers.

There are lots of other Superchargers that are older V2 which my EV won't work with.

It would be nice if Slate can access all Tesla Superchargers.

When I drive distance each month, I stop by the right hand side (v3) 76 Tesla Superchargers but can't use the left side (V2) chargers.

 

[GaRailroader]

Will the Slate be restricted to V3 and V4 Tesla Superchargers only ?

Ford, GM, and other brands are restricted to the newer chargers.

There are lots of other Superchargers that are older V2 which my EV won't work with.

It would be nice if Slate can access all Tesla Superchargers.

When I drive distance each month, I stop by the right hand side (v3) 76 Tesla Superchargers but can't use the left side (V2) chargers.

That’s funny that they located 2 supercharger sites so close together.