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Hey! That is excellent to hear! Would be the 5th Tesla here in NL. A 90D would be awesome!

Hello. Sorry for the delayed response. Haven't been on TMC for a while. The project is complete! All donations have been received and all suppliers/electricians have been paid. The charger is up and running and waiting for people to come to Newfoundland to use it :)

Awesome thanks David! Anyone who wishes to use Paypal or an email money transfer can send their donations to: [email protected]

There are quite a few down on High Street. Riverside Convenience is right down on the end of the street but its not a very far walk to anywhere on the street. Riverside also has a eat-in and take-out restaurant with quite a large selection. They also have a new frozen yogurt bar that I think...

It's been a long time coming but I can finally say this crowd funded EV charging station in GFW will be operational as of tomorrow! We had several issues that arose trying to find a host location, old electrical panels, unresponsive electricians to name a few but the wait will have been worth...

Hey Jaff, just seeing this post now! Glad to hear that your EV charging needs were met along your journey in NL. I didn't know that you had to charge up in GFW on your way to Deer Lake. Good to know that it's there if someone is ever in a pinch. However, once the SCH-100 is installed at the...

Took this photo today at Cape Spear (most easterly point of NA) looking towards Signal Hill which you can just barely pick out in the background. Beautiful here in NL when the weather is nice :P Hope lots of Tesla owners come to NL this summer to visit and make use of this new charger that we...

Wow that's a pretty sweet deal! I guess with all those excellent hydro resources demand is not a huge problem for them like it is here in NL. We have a good amount of hydro here as well but also have an old thermal generation station that provides a lot of the power and the utility, NL Hydro is...

Yes we looked at that option but the threshold where utility adds a demand charge is only 10 kW... so even on its own service, assuming its used monthly, they would pay for the 9.6 kW above the 10 which at $9.1/kW would be still be about $1,000 per year in demand charges plus the fee for having...

Yes, we have already paid for the charger from SCH to the tune of $3,300. They said that we needed to purchase the unit before they would begin work on looking for a location...

Unfortunately, I have become disappointed in SCH more and more over the last couple of months. I've tried repeatedly to get updates from them with no success. I've tried via email and phone and very little luck. I reached out three times last week and did not get a single response from them. I...

Bill gates posted this awesome video of him and Neal Stephenson driving in a Model X over on his website. Not sure if the Model X is his or not. I couldn't find anywhere online about him owning one. The Day the Moon Blew Up

Hello! Sorry I haven't posted an update on this project for awhile! It has mainly been because we have been have a difficult time locating a host location in GFW and I didn't want to report back until I had some good news! :) A small business owner in GFW is interested in hosting the charger...

Meeting was very good! They were impressed we were able to raise the funds so quickly. All thanks to several extremely generous donations. I'm still blown away by people stepping up. We discussed the following: Time Frame - Should be no problem to have charger installed and operational by...

That's greatly appreciated! Thank you. Hold on to the money for now and I will contact all of the pledgers with more details when I know more detailed costs of the project and ready to collect the funds.

Awesome! Be sure to let us know if you do! We love meeting other Tesla owners and EV supporters! Perhaps because there are not many here... ;) Working on it though!

Thanks for the info Cottonwood. I agree the challenge is in finding the host site. I have several spots and businesses in mind but I will likely make the 425 km trip from St. John's to GFW to scout it out a little closer and speak with some folks there. I have a meeting scheduled with SCH on...

Wow! That is incredibly generous of you! Thank you so much! That puts us now at almost 70% pledged. I am confident we will be able to reach our goal. We are now in talks with SCH to get the ball rolling ASAP. That is useful info on the boost transformer. It will be interesting to see how it...

I agree and will definitely look into this. This will be one of the few central EV charging stations on the island, not to mention one of the fastest, so no doubt it will be a popular spot as more EV come to the province. If we have the funds available to us and the supply is there we will make...

There are about 25 EVs in total in the province. Besides the two Teslas, the rest are Chevy Volts and Nissan Leafs. Most, if not all, of the Leafs are in St. John's and would not be able to make it to GFW to use this charger. A Volt owner travelling across the island would be able to use this...

Hello everyone, I had brought up the idea of crowd funding a SCH100 EV Charging station in Grand Falls-Windsor (GFW) to help making travelling across the island of Newfoundland a little easier. If you check our PlugShare you will see a large gap of chargers between Deer Lake and Gander. There...

Congrats Jon! Great to hear the third Tesla vehicle will soon be here in Newfoundland! Exciting times! I'm sure you aware of this but I highly recommend the 72A charger option. Being in a province that is not likely to have any Tesla super chargers anytime soon, having the faster charging...

Not sure I follow you on two red wires and two black wires. The two CTS for the for your main panel will be clamped around the two mains coming in to the panel shown in these two photos. The other end of the two CTS is plugged directly into the MTU. There is more information available in their...

The TED Pro Home with the Spyder pop package should be able to what you want if I understand what you want to monitor. The TED Pro Home comes with one set of 200A split core CT clamps that will go around your two mains coming into your main panel. This will measure the main panel. Using the...

Hi Jeff, I don't know if I would call myself a TED expert but I have been using a TED device for about 1.5 years now for measuring our electricity consumption. I also use it to monitor and log our Tesla's energy consumption. Feel free to ask me any other questions but here are my thoughts...

Well it has been 4 months ago since I started this thread. There's been quite of bit of action with many people describing the troubles we went through in regards to Tesla Ranger service visits. I haven't heard anything from Tesla or from anybody else for the matter about Tesla's stance on this...

Hi everyone, I am not sure why I didn't post a thread on this until now, but after re-watching some Elon Musk videos about getting feedback from people, I decided it was time. I designed, built and installed my own solar thermal air heating system for my house about 1.5 years ago and have...

Haha! All about maximizing efficiency! We did just over 400 km on one charge by the end of the day when the AC on the whole time. Wouldn't have got that driving at 120 km/h. No luxury of superchargers here so have to make the best with what we have. Also, I don't know if you been to...

I made a video to support the EV movement here in NL and thought I'd share it here if anyone is interested. There's some pretty good views from around Newfoundland as we travelled from St. John's to Point Lance beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbY30QAZV5c This weekend I originally...

Overall I would say we pleased. Pleased to the point that if someone else in NL was looking to purchase a new Tesla, I could genuinely recommend it. AS LONG AS they had it in a written contract that they would not be on the hook for the crazy service costs associated with ranger visits and/or...

I do think Tesla Certified Repair Shops is the way to go. They can even be picky in selecting a service shop to work with in each city. For example, there is a local business here that sells, and services electric vehicles. They have a beautiful service shop (Tesla-esque) and have technicians...

Well, it has been a while since I last posted an update on our service experience. It has been a very... interesting... experience to say the least. At the end of the day, the Montreal Tesla Service Center did take care of us as were hoping and we are extremely appreciative of that. I will try...

Thanks for your support eepic and others! We are indeed continuing to escalate this issue and will keep everyone posted on the outcome. So far, Charles, the Service manager for Montreal has forwarded this issue to his Regional Manager, Alberto Cortinas, which I am assuming in some way is his...

So an update on our service experience: The Tesla Ranger arrived to to fix our door handle problem. Very nice gentleman out of the Montreal Service Centre and he knew his stuff. He simply replaced the entire door handle assembly which involved removing the door paneling to access it. He had it...

Hi everyone. Just wanted to start a discussion with folks about how Tesla has changed their policy on their Ranger Service. I know that this service probably does not impact the majority of owners out there but it is an important issue to those of us who bought a car and live far away from any...

Hi guys, I found this thread yesterday and instantly new it was a problem we have been experiencing as well. I would say that it has only happened about 6-8 times but all of them have been in the last 2 months. Exact same description. Tesla will reduce down to 30 A almost right after beginning...

Nope! I'd say on average this winter we have been plugging it in 3 nights a week. The hassle of plugging it in every night was not worth the benefit. This might change if we ever get a HPWC to replace our NEMA 14-50 but were gonna stick with the NEMA 14-50 for now. The cars main route (work and...

Hey there, We had a pretty big snow storm here in St. John's the other day and I grabbed some pictures of our Model S before we dug her out. We get a lot of comments from locals and just others in general about how is an electric vehicle going to work in a harsh Newfoundland winter. As we...

Trip was great. It was amazing that down in Banff and Canmore it was spring like (hovering around 3 degrees and basically no snow on the ground). Then as soon as you get up in the mountains, I skied Sunshine Village both days, there were piles and piles of snow. Something else that amazed me...

Hi guys, I didn't see any recent pictures of the Superchargers in Canmore, AB so I thought I'd share photos I took about 3 days ago. I was out visiting from Newfoundland to Calgary/Banff for a ski trip. I had never seen a Tesla Supercharger in person before, so on the way back from Banff I...

You don't associate them. You just log out of the Tesla one in the settings and sign in with your personal premium account. Then just use slacker as normal through the media player.

I can also confirm the Slacker Premium account lets you do all the things you describe. I gave it as a Xmas gift to my father and we tested out in the Tesla yesterday. Great to be able to play music from the same artist over and over. Also great to say "Play Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon"...

We just had a little problem with a Tesla Ranger visit here in Newfoundland. The ranger needed to replace the silver trim piece that houses the reverse tail lights to fix a moisture issue a a few other minor things. Unfortunately, jut before the ranger called, the Montreal service centre called...

Hello all, Thought I'd share this incase any one was experience the same problem as us. About two weeks ago we put on our winter tires. We ordered Rial Lugano 19"s for tire rack and Michelin X-ice from Canadian tire. After putting them on the car we heard a rubbing sound coming from the...

Hi guys, We put out winter tires on two weeks ago (rial Laguna rims) with 245/45 R19 Michelin X-ice Tires. As soon as we put them and reversed and turing the wheel as described earlier we get the same rubbing as the original poster. I was going to post a picture of the rubbing but its...

It will be 23:30 here in Newfoundland. We are 1.5 hours ahead of eastern time. Thanks for thinking of us though! I will be watching/reading/listening... something.. haha

Yesterday I participated in the launch event for Sun Country Highway's E-Mazing Race that is taking place over the next month. See Sun Country Highways website for more info. First, any Tesla owners here participating in the contest? Our Tesla Model S will be travelling across Newfoundland and...

It's the pin that appears when you search a location in Nav. Close the search it goes away.

No I didn't know about the Destination Charging program Tesla has going but I will submit the application any see if they have any interested in helping out with the costs. Thanks! I agree with your 4 kinds of charging stops and that it makes sense to match the charging rate to how long you...