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Still missing primary utility transformer. Pad, conduits and meter base in place. Looks like we’re waiting on the electrical utility (BC Hydro I think, but it may be Fortis).

Parking paint went on mid day yesterday. Half a dozen electricians were working on cable terminations at the pedestals. A wee birdie told me that BC Hydro will be there to start their work on the 29th.

So, 15 minute walk to the Donut Mill and a 20 minute waddle back. Excellent. Best arrive empty! ;)

The critical question is: “How far is this from The Donut Mill?” Walking distance?

Last time I talked with the BC mobile service group (January 2019?), I was told that the tech was in Kelowna every other Tuesday. They were renting space at Prestige collision for the work. I assume that they are in other towns on other days. Appointments are made in advance. Years ago Tesla...

Very nice. 6kW? Is there a website where others (me!) can view the output from your array? We’ve been considering installing panels at our house, but keep putting it off. Last estimate I had was $2.50 to $3 per watt installed. I’d be interested in what your final costs are.

Leave them on the map, but mark them as not available to the public. People will hear about them one way or another, and unless they are acknowledged (marked on a a map) and marked as not available to the public, some of those people will go looking for them and be annoyed about wasting their time.

Call Tesla in Vancouver. They have been very helpful in fitting us in for service when we are planning a trip to Vancouver. I try to give them a couple of weeks or more lead time. Bear in mind that my experience is for the years before the Model 3 came out in large numbers. There is (or at...

I'm curious (particularly with regards to BC) as to whether more than one vehicle at a time can charge at most (all?) CHAdeMo/CCS locations? I don't have an adapter, so I don't frequent those chargers, but the ones that I have looked at recently have one CHAdeMO cable and one CCS cable. Can...

Our 2013 updated late last week and I’m just heading home after a drive to Edmonton. I believe that the text on the MCU is clearer now and always sized correctly, but I haven’t noticed any other changes on the MCU. The big improvement is on the dash screen. Street labelling is much better and...

You need to do a load calculation. Here is a pretty basic form from TechnicalSafetyBC.ca. It comprises an information sheet and a load calculation sheet. If you don't understand it, find someone who does to do it for you...

Unfortunately, what your inspector told you is not helpful for someone considering installing a Tesla wall connector.

This is called spreading FUD. Look it up in the Tesla documentation, https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/wall-connector-eu/tesla-80a-wall-connector-installation-manua-en-v1.pdf. Search that document for "Agency Approvals" and you find: Agency Approvals cULus listed for United...

I haven’t heard anyone poop on the Sottozero 3’s. The thread on them looks like it should work well on snow. Having said that, I have babied a set of Sottozero 2’s through a winter and stand by my claim that they are unacceptable (crap) for use on snow.

Everytime I have been into the Vancouver Service centre they have put our vehicle on a charger. Not sure if they do this for everyone, but they have always made an extra effort to accommodate our trips in from Kelowna.

Maybe better to move the posts concerning the Tsawwassen Superchager in this thread to the actual Tsawwassen Supercharger thread. I doubt that many people would consider the Tsawwassen supercharger to be the Vancouver supercharger as the only real reason to go to Tsawwassen, if you don’t live...

It’s not just you. Interestingly the rear hatch does open on touch of the button above the license plate, so it “sees” the fob. I can’t recall if the doors respond to touch / proximity after the rear hatch has opened, or if I still have to click the fob.

I’ve been to 4 MEC locations in the last year. Two of them have EV charging; 2 of them don’t. Sweeping generalizations, especially when they are wrong, are best avoided when trying to make a point.

When Tesla recalled the original (40A) 15-40 adapters, ours was heat fused to the UMC so they replaced both the adapter and the UMC. The replacement set has been running at 40A since then and is much cooler.

What are you guys going on about? ;) (The x-ices went on 3 weeks ago for a trip down to Vancouver.)

Thank you Doug.

I too would like them in a sub-forum. Most of the supercharger threads are regionally specific. Threads on Ontario and Quebec superchargers are about as relevant to people in BC and Alberta as are threads on superchargers in North Carolina and Germany. If I plan on travelling to those areas, I...

If you are taking requests, can we please stop flooding the Canada forum with a whole load of supercharger threads.

I was just in Edmonton and a 3 day rental (Thursday through Saturday) was $82.83, taxes in, for a “standard” vehicle out of YEG, which I thought was a surprisingly good price. Ended up being given a Ford Edge, as a free “upgrade”. Worked fine, but the first thing I did when I got to the hotel...

The Vancouver service centre has replaced our driverside mirror twice in hopes of correcting a similar problem, and it still doesn't work properly. The problem first cropped up about a year ago. Occasionally the mirror will not go to the preset position (set in the driver profile) when shifting...

That's not what I've experienced with our vehicle. Most of the time that I do a switch over between our winter and summer wheels I forget to reset the TPMS. Well, at least until the vehicle nags me, and then it's a simple task of driving 40km/hr (or something like that) for 5 minutes or so...

I have a set of Sottozero IIs. I babied them through a winter and then bought a set of x-ice 3s. The Sottozero IIs are wet weather tires. They are NOT snow tires. The Sottozero IIIs look to have a more aggressive thread that might work on snow.

Mark is still there and in charge of service (for all of western Canada I believe). It's just that the facility is a little overwhelmed by the demand at times. The new service centre was crowded and busy almost from the day it opened. Mark was up in Penticton a month or so ago for a test...

Back up and running. Not an electrical problem, rather the Fortis transformer base had sunk on one side and needed to be shored up before electrical lines pulled out. Charging started at 117 kW, but dropped to 65 kW in a few minutes even though SOC at 20%. Same experience on 1A, 2A, and 3A...

Cross Iron Mills, aka Rocky View, aka Calgary is currently down for Fortis transformer repair. Estimated repair time: 90 minutes. Have called Tesla to have them update in car navigation.

(TL;DR, but if the squeaky wheel gets the grease...,) Navigation: 1. Why is the blue route line so thick? Blue has high contrast against the map/satellite background. Make the blue line much thinner so that traffic data is visible. 2. Allow the directions panel to be shrunk so that the...

I agree that it is a Tesla-centric point of view, not to mention my point of view, as I don't see very many Leafs around the Okanagan. It's interesting (and good, from an EV point of view) to hear that they are much more common elsewhere. I'm not sure what you mean by proprietary. I know that...

I'd be interested to know just who is using these CHAdeMo chargers. I'm suspicious that a significant percentage of the use is by Tesla owners with adapters, which raises the question as to just why governments are so set on installing CHAdeMO? Society needs to move on from old technology. If...

I went to the pub and asked for a pint of beer. What did I get? Legally, a pint is 20 Imperial fluid oz in Canada. In the US it is US 16 fluid oz (and, no, a US fluid oz is not the same size as an Imperial fluid oz). In the pub, it seems to vary from 12 oz (a "sleeve") to, just occasionally...

and, S = rθ Good luck with arc lengths using degrees. Just how far is it around a circle? but, I'll grant you that most people don't need to work with the nth roots of 1. That might be overly complex. :)

I wasn't asking how much it costs to run the vehicle. Rather, I was asking what electricity costs in different jurisdictions. My "incremental" cost to run the vehicle would be $0.15617/kWh + 5% GST = $0.164/kWh. That's because changing the vehicle is all done at the higher, tier two rate...

That's why I was asking for the all in price. Just divide what you pay by the number of kWh shown on the bill and ignore all the marketing and political posturing.

On "supercharged" routes this is the same situation for us. Now we do a normal charge at home overnight and just drive. Before superchargers a trip to Vancouver involved a full range charge before leaving and a 3 hour stop in Hope at a 16kW L2 charger. Now it just involves figuring out where...

It's interesting that you find that. I usually find that I use (a bit) more power on the westbound leg than on the eastbound leg. It seems counterintuitive until you realize that you often have a tailwind heading east out of Hope and a headwind heading west into Hope.

I've never seen anyone else at the Merritt supercharger. I occasionally see 1 other vehicle at Hope. More recently I have seen 2+ vehicles at Kamloops. I usually don't see anyone else at Kelowna, but 2 or 3 vehicles aren't unusual. I haven't been to Revelstoke this year. In the past it was...

That is what i am looking for. I wasn't asking about power used by the vehicle as that will vary (greatly) depending on usage. What i am interested in is what people actually pay for their electrical power in various jurisdictions. Almost every post I see about the price of electricity is...

The cost of electricity is a regularly recurring topic scattered throughout various threads on this site. Most of the time it takes to form of a complaint about what it costs, but seldom does anyone actually state a bottom line. So, I'll start. My home in Kelowna receives it's electricity...

I'm for it as well. On recent trips to Vancouver it's been difficult to find an available charger, and it they remain free, it will become near impossible. $2/hr for a 6kW (not 7kW) is around twice the rate (taxes in) that is costs to charge at home, so that seems to be a good starting point...

Any idea what to lubricate it with? Some of us live 100's of kms away from a service centre and a visit involves an overnight stay. I've asked the service centre on 2 occasions where to lube the sunroof, and with what, but have yet to hear a response.

(Yes, I'm annoyed!)

[rant on]This is the sort of two-faced response one should expect from a political party that doesn't believe in a technology, doesn't understand it, and doesn't walk it, but is desperate for votes. I haven't counted them, but I bet a publicly traded automobile company (and only one company)...

Don't look too hard - they are one and the same! It's a J1772. More details on PlugShare. We have dual chargers in our vehicle so we can pull the full 80A - nice to have back before superchargers; not so critical these days.

If you are charged leaving Kelowna, you should have no problem reaching the Revelstoke supercharge. The actual distance is around 200 km (a bit more from my house, probably a few km less from the Kelowna supercharger). I measured this trip at 39 kWh in June 2014 with our 2013 S85. You don't...

There are a lot of 6 kW public chargers in the Vancouver area, but they are of limited use to visitors for a couple of reasons: 1. EVs have become increasingly popular in Vancouver and it has become noticeably more difficult to find an unoccupied charger in the city. 2. Those 6 kW chargers are...

Last Friday I pulled into the Hope supercharger with 36 km (rated range) remaining on our 2013 RWD S85. The chart below gives the observed charging rate versus battery charge measured in rated range (and calculated SOC with 425km == 100%). Note that a full range charge on this vehicle is now...