Chipper
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Welcome Ralph. Congratulations on your first post!...and spoke to resident tesla advisor yesterday he is highly interested in hosting a opening party at the new site, looking forward to end of June.
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Welcome Ralph. Congratulations on your first post!...and spoke to resident tesla advisor yesterday he is highly interested in hosting a opening party at the new site, looking forward to end of June.
This looks perfect for us, going to be visiting Nashville just for a day in July, thinking of driving in from Elizabethtown. Question: earlier in this thread someone posted that Elizabethtown, KY is a stretch from this location, but google is telling me it's only 149 miles (up I65). Seem quite doable to me (with P85), unless I'm missing something?
...and spoke to resident tesla advisor yesterday he is highly interested in hosting a opening party at the new site, looking forward to end of June.
This looks perfect for us, going to be visiting Nashville just for a day in July, thinking of driving in from Elizabethtown. Question: earlier in this thread someone posted that Elizabethtown, KY is a stretch from this location, but google is telling me it's only 149 miles (up I65). Seem quite doable to me (with P85), unless I'm missing something?
me too. I hope that becomes the norm, so I can reduce my obsessive attention to parking facing forward.. In the meantime I will pass through Nashville quite soon so I'll test those mini pre-curbsPlacement might reduce some ICEing. I like the mini pre-curbs.
I'll be going by there today but just in case I charged enough to get back home if the Supercharger isn't online yet. I'd be happy to perform a test charge if needed. I agree those mini pre-curbs will assuage a lot of drivers anxiety of pulling in forward. Having worked in my early work years as a used car lot attendant I can attest to the preferability of backing into a tight / semi-tight parking space rather than backing out. Here is one of the better explanations I've come across on the internet. This was written by Ben Reimers who is a contributor to the Quora website. Here is the link to his actual Quora - The best answer to any question answer which appears somewhere down in the rest of the quora answers: Why do people back up into parking spaces? - Quora
It's much easier to reverse into a car space where room is limited than it is to drive straight in.
The reason for this is that the back wheels are fixed in direction in relation to the car. This effectively makes the pivot point of the car the middle of the rear axle. In turn, this means the rear wheels don't follow the same path as the front wheels, they will cut the corner. When space is limited, your turning circle may not be small enough to get into a tight space, forcing you to make a couple of gos to get in, straight.
See how the car is crossing the lines on either side? You rarely have the room in a parking lot to be able to manoeuvre your car to be driving directly into the space, you have to straighten up inside the space itself. Not easy to do with the pivot at the back of the car, often causing people to reverse half out of the spot just to be straight (holding up traffic again and confusing people into thinking you might be leaving, when you're not).
But if you reverse in, you are placing your pivot point in a position where you can more easily get into the car space perfectly the first time.
It also has the benefit of being able to drive straight out. This isn't just for convenience though, it's also a safety issue especially in a busy car park. You're more likely to see other traffic as well as pedestrians when you're directly facing them.
[Update]
Because some people were questioning the way the car in the first image crosses the line I have put together this quick animation that shows how the rear wheels move towards where the front ones are and "cut" the corner ... by up to half the width of the car! I used inverse-kinematics to get the motion so it's not just my interpretation of what will happen.
The following is based on an average sedan length of 5 metres and an average turning circle of 11.75 metres. The outer circle is the curb-to-curb turning circle, the inner circle is the width of the car and there to illustrate my point about how the rear of the car.
turningcircle - YouTube
See how the car is positioned when it gets to the horizontal line: almost at a 45 degree angle. It takes another whole length to get straight again.
Please report back on your findings!I'm almost to Nashville. I hope the Supercharger is operational.
any update on this? Any reason why the Superchargers have not gone live yet? They seem to have been completed by June 30th but still not open? I bet there are an awful lot of people traveling this weekend who could benefit by this going live.