Given the highly unusual traffic patterns on and around April 8th 2024 (the day of the eclipse) with people driving to/from the path of totality, I thought it would be valuable/interesting to create a thread for people to share their experiences, particularly any congestion (or lack thereof) that they observed at Superchargers.
Here's my (rather unremarkable) experience:
I took my Model 3 LR from the Chicago suburbs to southern Illinois. I had some concerns about Supercharger congestion on the way back, but my return route after the eclipse had me drive through St Louis first to drop off some folks who had flown in there, so that took me away from the main flow of traffic in IL which went straight back north towards Chicago along I-57, and the Superchargers along I-55 (the route I took back from St Louis) were all wide open.
However, out of curiosity, I was also periodically checking the status of the Superchargers along I-57 via the Tesla app or nav screen every hour or so. To my surprise, I didn't see too much congestion or wait times at those Superchargers either. Most of the time most of those Superchargers did not show any waits. At its worst, I saw 2 out of the 3 Superchargers in Champaign-Urbana with <5 minute waits while the third one still showed a few open stalls. So if that data was to be believed, Tesla drivers along the very busy I-57 route shouldn't have had any serious delays if they needed to stop to charge.
Anyone else have any experiences to share?
(For reference, my route is shown below in blue with a crudely drawn border of the path of totality drawn in orange.)
Here's my (rather unremarkable) experience:
I took my Model 3 LR from the Chicago suburbs to southern Illinois. I had some concerns about Supercharger congestion on the way back, but my return route after the eclipse had me drive through St Louis first to drop off some folks who had flown in there, so that took me away from the main flow of traffic in IL which went straight back north towards Chicago along I-57, and the Superchargers along I-55 (the route I took back from St Louis) were all wide open.
However, out of curiosity, I was also periodically checking the status of the Superchargers along I-57 via the Tesla app or nav screen every hour or so. To my surprise, I didn't see too much congestion or wait times at those Superchargers either. Most of the time most of those Superchargers did not show any waits. At its worst, I saw 2 out of the 3 Superchargers in Champaign-Urbana with <5 minute waits while the third one still showed a few open stalls. So if that data was to be believed, Tesla drivers along the very busy I-57 route shouldn't have had any serious delays if they needed to stop to charge.
Anyone else have any experiences to share?
(For reference, my route is shown below in blue with a crudely drawn border of the path of totality drawn in orange.)