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Yes, the Domes! We hope to eventually offer at least one of them as a VRBO, as 'Tesla Friendly' :-) And I agree, the Flathead Valley is too perfect a spot for inclusion in the network to pass by. They'll get there. We all just need to be patient.

It's not the planning dept or city council or county commissioners. They don't have to 'sign off' on it. There is no 'politics' about this. FWIW, I have a 30 Amp charger in my garage in Kalispell and have charged travelers several times by running the cord under the door. Also, we have a...

OK, wait. What I'd really do is: Buy enough 12 gauge romex to reach from your panel, out the window and down to near your car. Put in a 20 amp double pole breaker and hook it to the wire hanging out the window, down to a NEMA 14-50 flopping loose down at the end of the romex. Do the 'heat...

There are 90 amp breakers available. However, this is what I'd do (yeah, it might be naive, but it's my 2 cents): Install a 20 amp double pole (240V) breaker in your panel, have it feed a NEMA 14-50 outlet (so no 'pigtail' adaptor needed). Program your car to only pull 16 amps whenever it is...

I can for sure second the sentiment of retiring early!! I read something that said the #1 regret of retirees was that they didn't travel more when they were younger, and I'd never met someone who said they'd wished they hadn't retired (I'm sure they're out there), and there was an article in...

No action to be seen here in Kalispell and the rumor mill is silent. However, There is a NEMA 14-50 in Hungry Horse that is freely available for Tesla drivers. It's on Plugshare, but you have to enable viewing residential chargers to see it.

I'm glad you did the work yourself, I do all my own wiring too. I'm a retired veterinarian. I used to charge $400 per hour for surgery. For me, it wasn't that I charged based on what my costs were, I charged based on what the service was worth.

When the subject comes up I just say, "I got rich the old fashioned way - I inherited and got lucky" I've got a couple of friends who I've helped financially by telling them I needed some 'steady fixed income' investments, then carried their home loan at a lower than market interest rate. What...

From the Helena thread: Hey we should really let Super 1 in Helena know how much we appreciate them hosting the Superchargers! After all, they are looking to host the Kalispell location, and I think it would be helpful for them to see the benefits of having Tesla customers! I'm planning to be...

This is a great idea, Wade. Fill the stalls, go buy some ice cream at the Super1, tell the checkout person or the manager how much it's appreciated, and call the newspaper. I'm sure the Super1 won't mind being mentioned in a community interest story.

No new news for Kalispell. A search for pulled electrical permits in Flathead County shows nothing. BUT, the Helena SC is online now and at least two local Tesla owners are planning a drive over there this weekend to show the Super1 managers and decision makers that having a SC in their...

"I don't know, but there's something different about it. I've owned 2 BMW 3-series and..." Well, I think maybe you're all just getting older and the people you give rides to are getting older and need more grab handles.

Kalispell SC is on hold for now (long story). However, 'construction has started in Great Falls, Helena, and Miles City' is from a supremely reliable source.

Thanks for asking. I just checked the MT electrical permit database and nothing yet :-\ I typically check when I think of it, once a month maybe. I'll post right away when there's any action. Of course, it never hurts to ask to jog my memory ;-)

EFSDVM! I'm dvm myself, we should get together and trade war stories. We've got a 240V outlet in our garage you can use (just 6 blocks from the Red Lion) and we've got one up in Hungry Horse. That one's on Plugshare too, but you have to choose the 'residential' filter. My phone number is...

and they cleaned the screen for you :-)

Ask the next electrician to think outside the box. For example, if you are lucky you MAY be able to use existing wires that are now at 120 volts to create a 240 Volt 20 amp circuit. You would lose all the other 120 volt outlets that are on the circuit, but if you have more than one 120 volt...

I got a dozen used pucks on ebay for cheap. they are sold as practice pucks. And in response to a number of other comments: The puck is only needed if the jack plate is large and therefore will put pressure on the battery even if placed correctly (so some jack plates are fine and don't need...

Code clarification: The breaker has to be sized for the LOWEST rating of any wire or device in the circuit (exception: 15 amp outlets on a 20 amp circuit, since you can't plug in a 20 amp appliance to a 15 amp outlet). So this means that yes, you can put a 14-50 outlet on a circuit that is...

"You really, really do have to be prepared to take over in an instant at any time." Yup. I LOVE autopilot and I use it ALL the time, even on city streets because it's a better driver than I am (my mind tends to wander. You who are reading this are probably a better driver than I am, so of...

I think the future value of HW 3.0 and FSD (with ability to monetize the car into the Tesla Autonomous Taxi Network ) is worth upwards of $30,000. I also think that when the Tesla Network is online and demonstrably able to monetize private Tesla owners' cars that the cost of FSD will be much...

Dude, lease it. Seriously. It'll give you a measure of comfort regardless. However, having said that, I'd also like to say that (knowing what I know about what it's like to own and drive a M3), if I didn't already own one and Tesla was bankrupt and there was only one M3 left for sale, I'd...

Some comments: "not having driver initiated auto lane change on AP, it disengages every time I change lanes" - my AWD M3 with AP and FSD changes lanes on it's own when I engage the turn signal. And this is one of my favorite features, since I am notorious for not checking my blind spot. Now...

Great observation! Thanks for posting. We put 45000 miles on our S in 2014, before SC'ers were everywhere. We did a lot of drafting off big rigs to stretch our range. Those who said it's a powerful technique are right. We once got 325 miles on a 265 mile range charge by drafting...

I ordered my M3 AWD Performance when they were saying that model and trim would have free SC for life. When I went to pick it up there was no free SCing anymore, but the price had been cut $5000. TOTAL SCORE!!! I was delighted. I had a 2014 pre-AP model S with free supercharging and we put...

Hey @Padelford - There is a little more news, but not 'hard' news. I'm waiting for it to firm up before sharing ;-) Don't be optimistic about the SC being operational by July, though. OTOH I think I can hook you up with a HPWC in Hungry Horse by then.

do you have any of the original adapters? If so, there may be a workaround. Or you could cut the cord and wire the frayed end to a https://smile.amazon.com/Camco-PowerGrip-Replacement-Transform-55255-x/dp/B000PGVZ30

We just ordered the Tsportline 18" wheels for our AWD performance 3 with performance package. We'll get the Mich Xice winter tires. I couldn't think of any reason we'd need 'performance' winter tires. I mean, we're just going to be doing daily driving until the snow melts, then we can put the...

When I am going to a supercharger I've never been to, I turn on the satellite view overlay and zoom in on the destination and make sure I can see the location of the chargers within the parking lot. Helps avoid frustrations. Also, on that breaking the window thing - I've sold a few teslas and...

Welcome to the electric car family, Dane! I'm betting, like most Tesla owners, you will never buy a non-electric car again. We bought our first S in 2014 and spent 9 months driving around the country living homeless out of our car. I kept a blog during that time - The Tesla and the Tent.

Really hard to tell. The search system is not good. The search is only good to limit it to commercial electrical, a date range, and a county. Even putting in 'Tesla' in the project name search field only pulls up the Superior SC. Nothing I put in the Name field pulls up anything Tesla...

Link to new thread, December 2018 : Supercharger - Northwest - Kalispell

Yes, all covered with solar panels. If yous guys looks up yous can see the inverters mounted on somes of the poles, tucked up high just below the panels. I went there in March 2018 and the NAV system said there were only 18 out of 40 stalls available, but only 2 stalls were taken. I asked the...

Time to start this thread. Word in the back channel is that Tesla has narrowed their site selection in Kalispell to one of two spots and is very close to pulling an electric permit. Issued electric permits are searchable online and I will check every week and post when it has been pulled and...

thank you, @Naonak, I'm looking forward to data from your upcoming trip. BTW, great avatar. We spent our first 9 months as Model S owners doing the Tesla Gypsy thing, putting 45,000 miles on the car (2014 S85 pre-autopilot). We did, perhaps, 60% of our charging at SC's. When this whole...

I've no idea, but I'll be charging on my NEMA 14-50 in Chubbuck, so that's at least one Model S that won't be there ;-)

My understanding (and experience -we are based in Montana) is that the big driver of increased consumption at very low temperatures is increased air density. And what I mean by that is the biggest factor that you can't control, so it doesn't include things like driving around with the...

Woo Hoo! My wife and I are based in both Kalispell and Pocatello. Let me tell you, that run from Butte to Idaho Falls (and more so in the other other direction, 700 feet elevation gain) is Harsh in zero degree weather. Not so bad when Joulie was new, but after 92,000 miles and 8% battery...

Anyone know of any other SC's that are in an unpaved lot?

Real news! We drove from Butte to Idaho Falls on 8/13/16 and stopped at Jan's Cafe in Lima. We found a stake in the ground tagged with pink ribbon and labeled VEC. Their local electric company is Vigilante Electric. The stake is in Jan's parking lot exactly where I would put superchargers if...

On 5/15 I spoke to the desk person at the Clarion and she said, "They pulled cables today. They said they were bringing up a Tesla from Salt Lake City to test them next week". But it sure looks ready to go. Does anyone know if they block them or put a 'Stay out' ribbon or something around...

Yeah, first time for me uploading media. I just changed the permissions to 'public'. Could someone let me know if the images are now viewable?

Saturday AM pic there will be 8 charging stalls, one is a "pull in forward" type. This last one is also positioned so that it could be approached from an out-of-the-box direction if the stalls are all ICE'd. Also, it will allow X charging w/o unhooking whatever is being towed. The parking...

Further update: This morning the day manager of the Clarion called me (I left a msg last night). He says, "I really don't know what they're doing. All we did was provide the parking spaces, they're doing everything else". Well, that sounds like a supercharger to me. If this was a...

I can hook you up with a HPWC in Pocatello - it's on Plugshare.

Night clerk at the Clarion Inn confirms that "Tesla chargers are being installed". I suppose there is some question about whether these are destination chargers or superchargers. I will contact the day manager tomorrow and try to confirm. Fingers crossed....

I'm buds with a backhoe guy and today he helped pour a supercharger pad at the Clarion Inn in Pocatello. I'll drive over there tomorrow and get some pics. This is good news. I'll be able to decommission my HPWC in Chubbuck and move it to somewhere more useful. Maybe Kalispell, MT.

It's tempting to read too much into this story, but I thought I'd pass it along. A number of items makes sense if Audi is thinking of a deal with Tesla that would allow their E-tron line to use the supercharger network. Story link if from GreenCarReports: Audi e-Tron Electric Car To Offer...

When we were there a couple of months ago a man came in to pick his new P85D up. He came in a Porche Panamera and left it there as a trade-in. I nearly asked him if I could drive it....

Does anyone else think that plateau at 1 G looks suspiciously software limited?