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Wow right by my office. Hopefully this means Tesla will finally fix FSD on 15th Ave. It is unusable because it constant is changing lanes back and forth like a drunk sailor (even with minimal lane changes) and into bus/parking lanes.

I know this category is "Superchargers™️" but Washington just released the funding for the first round of chargers paid for by the Carbon tax. Experience The funding requires an NACS or CCS plug and almost all of them are both as well as >100kw So we're about to see effectively white label v2...

I feel like North Bend could probably be Magic Dock'ed pretty safely. Most people leaving Seattle have a decent charge so it doesn't seem to get much traffic. That would link up nicely with Quincy since it's about the right distance for the next charge.

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evidence-mcdermitt-caldera-largest-lithium.html Might become a very active destination for Tesla employees soon.

And most importantly now that the other charger's coffee shop no longer offers bathroom access and is no longer owned by Lacey, we can abandon the eastern charger without feeling guilty or like we're being disloyal. 😛

"I don't know Tesla, 2 superchargers within 2 miles feels like a lot." Tesla: "Three. 3 superchargers in 2 miles."

Will there be 3x 250kw chargers within a mile of each other or is one of these two going to be widdled down you think?

I guess it depends on how many days you're staying. Hitting 8 tastings might raise other issues for driving home (without FSD v29). 😂 I can confirm though that with good weather and a 300mi of charge you can comfortably reach Cle Elum from Walla Walla without stopping at Pasco, Yakima or...

Fenced and still looked unfinished on Saturday.

As another data point I, charged on Tuesday last week for the first time and around 7pm all of those parking spaces across the way were also completely empty then as well. The good news is that the bollard is padded so if you do door it you hopefully won't harm your paint too bad. For round...

I imagine what their data shows is that Tacoma and Olympia Tesla owners already have home chargers and are leaving with 100% or can arrive with 10%. This'll be more for Ferry traffic from Seattle apartment dwellers. (It is a shame they can't install one on the ferry :D)

Did you have any success? I have a leviton tripping on a brand new circuit as well.

The Trader Joes is unfortunately a v2 so it's pretty slow since it's almost always full and you're sharing power. (It was briefly an urban charging location by error). The largest problem with TJ's is that it's underground and Tesla still doesn't offer Wifi reliably to its garaged charging...

Or v4.

Hertz charges $7 + pump price for gas refueling. If gas is 10 gallons * $3/gal = $37 If Tesla charges $15.50 @ $0.31kwh for 66% charge that still leaves a customer expectation gap of about $20 to pay someone to cycle them through the supercharger. You could also optimize the system with a...

I think it's less about congestion and maybe more about amenities? No 24/7 restroom. Bob's burgers has always been nice but I've always gotten a snack to go, not sure how friendly they are to just walk in rest stop bathroom users.

I often try to stop at this SC just because I like it better even though the new Ellensburg is faster. Almost always buy food and coffee when they're open. How's Gravity Coffee? Guess I won't be stopping here out of loyalty anymore.

Ellensburg is now also a v3.

I suggested Twisp and Winthrop. The Destination Charger at Newhalem is pretty fast in a bind as long as you only need to get to Winthrop and not all the way south to Entiat

This'll be a great location for heading to/from Seattle and shows at The Gorge Amphitheater. Google maps says it's just a 9-minute detour. I've often found myself uncomfortably low after using the AC a bunch at the campground.

Great location for Walla Walla traffic. I only ever hit Kennewick on the way to Walla Walla if I'm super desparate since it's so far out of the way. This will probably eliminate most of my stops at Yakima for me.

It's so, so, so much worse. Talking about "% of the time" is the worst possible metric because it betrays the implicit logarithmic nature of the statement. Every 1 : 1,000 minutes the system fails: "This works 99.9% of the time." Every 1: 100,000,000 minutes the system fails: "The system...

I've run my 2018 3 through the Uncle Ikes touchless numerous times without any chrome discoloration. Then again, its cleaning quality is pretty poor too. So maybe they are just using their regular soaps through a touchless system.

If you're desperate you don't even have to leave Seatac. The cellphone lot has Tesla plugs now for the 50kw EVGo chargers.

Not to get toooooo far off topic, but very few regions of the world consumed raw cows milk until pretty recently. And if you have plentiful food in a more tropical climate then cows milk is unlikely to be the difference between life and death. Like, why eat something that makes you feel...

I saw the Ridgewood, WA addition and my first thought was "That's fine I guess, but more badly needed is on the west side of the Columbia like St. Helens" Tada!

The Seattle City Light L3 Chademo\CCS charger by my condo was vandalized back in March. Still inoperable.

They were working on it just now and I asked if it was close and they said "couple weeks".

As a compliment to Tesla. March 28 - April 3: less than a week. Meanwhile Seattle City Light station also pilfered: March 17 - ??????

Dedicating any spots on Main Street or Alder would probably result in a lot of animosity due to the low numbers of EVs and would be constantly ICEd or at least viewed with (justified) indignation. The ideal locations would be behind Brights Candy in the lot off Rose or behind the Bon Marche...

My Mom's BnB is one of the destination chargers. A supercharger would be nice but probably very low priority for Tesla. I suspect the next highest priority will be Pullman for game traffic where people come into town and then turn around and leave as soon as the game is over. Through traffic...

Who wants to break the bad news to him? 🤣

Since it hasn't been mentioned, the BBQ/Taco place is pretty good: https://www.hammerlanebbq.org/our-menu You can also order ahead of time online. So if you submit your order around Highway 18 you can just pick up your order to eat while charging.

(2) 350kw chargers and (2) 100KW chargers sounds like 2CCS and 2 CHADEMO Electrify America chargers. There was a nearly identical EA station going in at the Fred Meyer in Sandy, OR right next to the superchargers

It's only a few hundred feet, but that's a few hundred feet I usually dread walking in the winter. I'll call this a big win. The North Side of Burger King would be perfect another couple hundred feet onward but this is pretty good. Hopefully the old stalls remain as well so that Starbucks is...

I've stopped at that Quincy McDonalds right about where the pin is a few times on the way to and from Leavenworth. Maybe my GPS stats are throwing off their telemetrics. :D

I'm always super jealous of the EA chargers that are 10 feet from Taco Bell.

Note for those that don't know... there are two 50kw Tesla chargers in the Cellphone Waiting lot.

"Under both Washington and Oregon law, you can turn right on a solid red arrow (the same as a solid red light) provided it's safe to do so, you come to a full stop, traffic is clear, and you stay out of the intersection as you wait, unless there's a sign posted that prohibits it. "...

Terminal direct for a Friday flight, returning Sunday is $80 + Tax. That's what I mean by it being cheaper to just grab an Uber unless I'm just going out and back for a meeting. But then the 120v aren't really enough to get much of any charge anyway.

Didn't we track that old one for ages... Have it get timed out. Re submitted... Time out... And then suddenly pop up a few blocks away at the current Bellevue location?

Did you then hand her a credit card?

Just a note, it is kind of a PITA to rely on that supercharger to do the Olympic Peninsula since it's an "old" 120kw. I highly recommend finding a place you can charge overnight to not need to stop in forks every morning.

That's how I would have to drive over Manastash pass all summer in my VW Golf. 🤣 Largest reason I bought myself a nice new car as soon as I was out of college and was making money.

I would go so far as to say that any In Progress database entry without any updates in 180 days gets wiped.

That assumes they ever worked. I tried a brand new EA station near me that just opened a week earlier. Charged at <2kw. Figured whatever, I'll go to the nearest city owned station. Which... was blocked by construction vehicles. Fine I thought. I don't need you anyway, I'll use the one that...

You would probably be fine just using some onsite power. I assume there is at least a temporary meter and outlet on site for power tools?

Is Tesla still evn manufacturing Urban cabinets? I feel like they're just finishing off projects that started ages ago like Bellevue without going back to planning committee reviews but otherwise everything is now consolidated around v3.