Recent content by Rocky_H

Yes it did. You are thinking only in terms of how the North American ones were configured. Back in the old regime, where there were single or dual chargers, we thought of them here as the 40A or 80A. And so in our usage, we thought if that charger as 9.6 kW or almost 10. But in Europe, when...

@Ponderosa The thing is, there are two opposite things you can do that are at cross purposes with each other. For the best actual health of the battery cells long term, you can use them in a very small range in the middle area of the battery, like 40-50%. But doing that doesn't give the...

Well, that's kind of listing the worst case, because they don't want to be bombarded with complaint calls if it takes 2 days or 3 days. I've seen many reports of it sometimes being completed same day, but sometimes it doesn't. Yeah, I mean that's a way to make sure you can get home, and then...

I'm pretty sure it never has. That is because: Tesla had already discontinued the 22 kW chargers a few years before 2019.

Well I'll be. I see the writing on the side: 50A and 125/250V, so it sure is a 10-50. Those aren't usually used for dryers. But it's not curious to all of us. You've been doing something risky that pushes the envelope here for a long time. It may run fine for quite some time, but it is very...

I second this, that it is very unlikely that you can get the car close enough to simply plug in directly with the 20 feet length of the charging cable itself, unless the dryer is in the garage, and you can park right next to it in the garage. You would really need to find out what type of dryer...

There are a few things in this that concern me. That would be highly unusual. Dryer outlets are almost always 30A type--either 10-30 or 14-30. Are you sure this is a 10-50 and was it there for something else? Posting a picture of it would help because we might be able to identify it for...

Since the location of @Romain Garin says "Brittany", I am thinking that is European settings, so I should help clarify about the mixed up meaning of the term "Rated", which is different between the two locations. In North America cars, it is as @NV Ray says, where "Ideal" is a much higher...

What color was the light next to the charge port? Still normal stuff, like blue when it got plugged in and green when it was actively charging? Or did it show orange at some point?

I think I'm going to ask you to explain the logic behind this. If an arrogant coach has an "internal company expectation" to threepeat on the next three Super Bowls...and then actually does so...that makes it not an incredible achievement and therefore not worthy of the performance bonus?

That one I can totally see. The sycophant "yes men" club of the board is not very independent. This one I find insane that people believe this was already internally known data through a company crystal ball that they supposedly knew the future. It involved a gigantic growth target of the...

Well...yeah, everyone has experienced it at least once at one time or another. It just depends on what you're talking about: 1. You get the failure to latch message once or twice a year because you didn't happen to push it in far enough. or 2. You really can't ever get it to latch. If it's...

This conspiracy theory that everything on Amazon is fake is wild.

That seems like a really wild accusation. I don't think you have that right. https://www.cerrowire.com/products/resources/tables-calculators/ampacity-charts/ If it's 8 gauge regular wire in conduit, like THWN, that is rated at a 50A circuit and can already run 40A continuous. If it's Romex...

Speaking of, I've always thought Mercedes failed in their marketing department when they decided to call their small electric car the "Smart ED". Really? Do you WANT to make people too ashamed to buy it?