Wiki Superchargers Visited

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This is a friendly contest for Tesla owners to track the number of unique public Superchargers where they have charged

- "Supercharger count" is the number of unique public Superchargers where you have charged (just being there does not count), whether or not you were the person plugging in the vehicle (such as a Valet Parking garage or a Passenger) and whether or not it was your own personal vehicle (such as a rental, a loaner, or a friend's Tesla) as long as you were the one who drove >50% of the distance to reach the charger(s).
- The list of chargers in the supercharging.life database are the ones included in the game. If you think one should be added or removed from the list, let us know.
- Only chargers available to the public without special permission are included in the game.
- Chargers not connected to the grid are not counted.
- Doublet locations like the North/South Supercharger 'pairs' in CT, ME, NH, etc. count as individual locations.
- More than 1 charger at the same address, such as Lenox Square Mall (Atlanta, GA) or Montgomery Mall (Bethesda, MD) count as individual locations when they appear as a separate location on the Tesla Nav screen.
- Inactive competitors will be archived and removed from the leaderboard. Just post an update to be reactivated.

See Supercharging.Life database for info on how to post your own visits to the database (preferred), or post your locations with date visited to this thread and one of the admins will update your list for you. All visits must be posted to this thread - not just entered in supercharging.life. If you are the first in the game to visit a supercharger location, please post to the thread as soon as you can so others know it has been visited.

 

[cpa]

The fun continues…

Things I have learned on this trip so far:

Mall parking garage Superchargers absolutely suck for hunting because they’re almost always hard to find, it’s usually time consuming getting to them, and all the time and effort you put in to finding them is wasted because you probably won’t ever come back again.

Bruce, you said a mouthful. First, the navigation does not explicitly state that the SC is in a parking garage. It merely says, "Supercharger--Frostbite Falls--Boris Ave." Second, the navigation drops you off nearby the entrance to the parking structure and vanishes, leaving us to grope as to the specific location. Perhaps 1/4 of the time there is a Tesla sign that says the SC are on a particular level. And some structures are so large that even when you do arrive on the correct level, perhaps they are tucked away that they cannot be seen as we meander up and down the aisles trying to dodge other vehicles while we rubberneck our way through.

How hard would it be to add in the description: Supercharger--Frostbite Falls--Boris Ave. (Third floor)?

Then, I would add, when exiting these parking structures, sometimes we take a different exit from the entrance. So, instead of returning to Boris Avenue to resume our travels, we exit to the north onto Badenov Blvd. It takes the navigation awhile before it gets its bearings and meanwhile we are driving around in circles. Grrrr!

 

[cpa]

Just a quick update:

On Thursday afternoon, CalTrans finally reopened SR120 west from Lee Vining off US395 all the way to the Tioga Pass entrance station into Yosemite. So, now we can head up the hill and try our hand at fishing or basking in the alpine wilderness east of the park.

Unfortunately, the Park Service is still struggling with its work in clearing Tioga Road at Ostrander Point and a few other places east. There is still a lot of the white stuff lingering about, and avalanche is still a possibility.

I think now that the State has finished, they might be able to assist the Park Service to expedite reopening. But I would not think that this reopening would be much before the 25th of July.

It is unclear at this point if Tuolumne Meadows will be open at all this summer or if it will have only limited services available when it does eventually reopen.

 

[juliusa]

Bruce, you said a mouthful. First, the navigation does not explicitly state that the SC is in a parking garage. It merely says, "Supercharger--Frostbite Falls--Boris Ave." Second, the navigation drops you off nearby the entrance to the parking structure and vanishes, leaving us to grope as to the specific location. Perhaps 1/4 of the time there is a Tesla sign that says the SC are on a particular level. And some structures are so large that even when you do arrive on the correct level, perhaps they are tucked away that they cannot be seen as we meander up and down the aisles trying to dodge other vehicles while we rubberneck our way through.

How hard would it be to add in the description: Supercharger--Frostbite Falls--Boris Ave. (Third floor)?

Then, I would add, when exiting these parking structures, sometimes we take a different exit from the entrance. So, instead of returning to Boris Avenue to resume our travels, we exit to the north onto Badenov Blvd. It takes the navigation awhile before it gets its bearings and meanwhile we are driving around in circles. Grrrr!

I find plugshare and TMC are helpful finding superchargers in garages.

 

[Bighorn]

If you touch the SC pin on the map, it will often say parking level 3 or might include a gate code. Despite the aids, I often dread arriving at a parking garage. I remember one in Toronto, I think it was, where there were several different adjacent garage entrances, separate billable structures and the third time parking was the charm. I think I had to pay at one of the garages without any chargers.

 

[Bighorn]

This latest trip is concluded. For the quants:
65 days
27,058 miles
20 countries
481 new super chargers
329 Europe
152 US/CAN
Too numerous to count: speed cameras and roundabouts
$20-40k Priceless

 

[Thinkje]

Check-ins for 2023-07-15
- Washington, IN (#1732)

Almost home now…

 

[bmah]

I had bigger plans for today except I got stuck in traffic south of San Clemente. I also gave up on some Superchargers where cars were waiting. Still a good day though.

Bruce.

Check-ins for 2023-07-15
- Buena Park - Beach Blvd, CA (#294)
- Fullerton, CA (#295)
- Anaheim - W Lincoln Ave, CA (#296)
- Santa Ana - E 5th St, CA (#297)
- Tustin - Red Hill Ave, CA (#298)
- Tustin - Franklin Ave, CA (#299)
- Tustin, CA (#300)
- Tustin - Flight Way, CA (#301)
- Irvine - Main St, CA (#302)
- Irvine - Michelson Dr, CA (#303)
- Newport Beach, CA (#304)
- Irvine - Culver Drive, CA (#305)
- Irvine - Walnut Ave, CA (#306)
- Lake Forest - Muirlands Blvd, CA (#307)
- Laguna Hills, CA (#308)
- Mission Viejo - Crown Valley Pkwy, CA (#309)
- San Juan Capistrano, CA (#310)
- San Clemente - Av. Vista Hermosa, CA (#311)
- San Clemente, CA (#312)
- Vista, CA (#313)
- San Marcos, CA (#314)
- Carlsbad - Van Allen Way, CA (#315)
- Carlsbad - Paseo Del Norte, CA (#316)
- Carlsbad, CA (#317)
- San Diego - Carmel Mountain Rd, CA (#318)
- San Diego - Clairemont Mesa Blvd, CA (#319)
- San Diego - Balboa Ave, CA (#320)
- San Diego - Friars Rd, CA (#321)
- San Diego - Mission Center Rd, CA (#322)

(Ah dammit. Pretend I spelled “Tustin” correctly.)

 

[Bredo]

Norway - Italy, last day:

Check-ins for 2023-07-15
- Barberino di Mugello, Italy (#532) (First to check-in)
- Magliano Sabina, Italy (#533)

Whats up with the Magliano Sabina SC? It's not showing in the app. I found it in the nav and was able to check-in, but it told me that the charger was several miles away, even if I literaly could touch them while checking-in.

 

[bmah]

If you touch the SC pin on the map, it will often say parking level 3 or might include a gate code. Despite the aids, I often dread arriving at a parking garage. I remember one in Toronto, I think it was, where there were several different adjacent garage entrances, separate billable structures and the third time parking was the charm. I think I had to pay at one of the garages without any chargers.

True the Nav has some helpful hints.

Latest pet peeve: I wasted a bunch of time yesterday driving around some garage because it was not apparent whether level P2 was above or below level P1.

Bruce.

 

[Bighorn]

Norway - Italy, last day:

Check-ins for 2023-07-15
- Barberino di Mugello, Italy (#532) (First to check-in)
- Magliano Sabina, Italy (#533)

Whats up with the Magliano Sabina SC? It's not showing in the app. I found it in the nav and was able to check-in, but it told me that the charger was several miles away, even if I literaly could touch them while checking-in.

When I compared the game board from the SC.life app with supercharge.info, there were a lot missing in Italy. For example, check out Naples. Game doesn’t show any chargers, but there are a couple. Didn’t know if they were somehow not eligible for the game because of accessibility or if it were a glitch.

Addendum: I don’t see Vicolungo on either map, yet it exists if you search for it on google and @plusev just checked in. No game data is shown for it though.

 

[Bighorn]

True the Nav has some helpful hints.

Latest pet peeve: I wasted a bunch of time yesterday driving around some garage because it was not apparent whether level P2 was above or below level P1.

Bruce.

My pet peeve is spending so much time searching out the location that you just miss out on the grace period for free exit.

 

[JSergeant]

From Friday. TMC was down previously when I tried to post, and the post got lost.

Also, no map, as my temporary trial for TeslaFi on the new S had expired, unbeknown to me.

Check-ins for 2023-07-14

- Ridgefield, WA (#1814)
- Portland - N Pavilion Ave, OR (#1815) (First to check-in)
- Clackamas, OR (#1816)

 

[cpa]

I find plugshare and TMC are helpful finding superchargers in garages.

Using Plugshare may be sensible when on a long haul when the time spent Supercharging will be 15-30 minutes in order to reach the next location. But when one is darting about in urban areas, this seems awkward and cumbersome. Most urban charging is splash and dash, then figuring out with our maps which one is closest to hit the next and so forth. At least that is the way that I go about trying to grab a bunch over a short period of time in urban areas with a score or more of unvisited Superchargers.

As far as TMC goes, I rarely have seen that the Supercharger has the precise location. Sometimes, yes. Mostly, no. And generally when there is helpful information it is on page 54 of 73 of the thread after I have to scroll through countless pictures and other drivel.

I try to do things like this more efficiently and more sensibly. Perhaps I have developed an inferior method of grabbing bunches of Superchargers at once. So, when you want to visit a particular area with a dozen or more clustered unvisited Superchargers, do you make plans in advance by researching every single site, write down the peculiarities with these sites from PlugShare and TMC and then keep these notes in your pocket to review regularly?

Lastly, I was unaware as Bighorn said that the navigation pin gives salient information. I looked at a few locations that are known to be in parking garages on the Tesla app, and there was no reference--only the name of the site and the street address. Nothing more specific.

Always looking to improve!

 

[JSergeant]

Lastly, I was unaware as Bighorn said that the navigation pin gives salient information. I looked at a few locations that are known to be in parking garages on the Tesla app, and there was no reference--only the name of the site and the street address. Nothing more specific.

Always looking to improve!

The in-car Navigation almost always tells you the level of a multi-story parking lot where the Superchargers can be found. The App generally does not.

Here are a couple of examples for Seattle and one from Cupertino:

 

[Bighorn]

It was in Europe where I recognized that there’s often a collection of photographs of the area and stalls.

 

[PLUS EV]

When I had to replace the battery on the Model 3, I had an S loaner for a week that appeared on my phone app on pick up and went away when I dropped it off.

Hertz is early in the learning curve. Both my Hertz rentals had firmware updates needing to be processed. And a couple cars were low on windshield washer fluid.

My UFO Drive car has a pending software update, but I don't dare download it

 

[PLUS EV]

This latest trip is concluded. For the quants:
65 days
27,058 miles
20 countries
481 new super chargers
329 Europe
152 US/CAN
Too numerous to count: speed cameras and roundabouts
$20-40k Priceless

I was a fan of roundabouts before this trip. Now I'm wondering if the French have ever heard of a 4-way or 2-way stop. Some of these roundabouts take up a space the size of a football field too. And then there are the roundabouts that lead directly into another roundabout. Huh?!?

My other possibly unpopular opinion is that the American way of freeway driving, even with all its flaws, is superior to the European method. The European method caters to the extremely slow and extremely fast drivers. If you want to drive 40mph, you just camp in the right lane the whole way. If you want to drive 100+mph, you just bomb down the left lane and flash your lights and tailgate everyone who gets in your way like a ************ and you're a-ok. But if you are like 90% of the cars that just want to go roughly the speed limit, you are required to weave in and out of lanes constantly or else you are somehow a complete asshole. This makes no sense. And it isn't compatible with strict speed camera enforcement. And it certainly isn't compatible with autopilot when your rental Model 3 doesn't have auto lane change

 

[PLUS EV]

Check-ins for 2023-07-16
- Vicolungo, Italy (#2243) (First to check-in)
- Cavaglià, Italy (#2244)
- Torino Grugliasco, Italy (#2245) (First to check-in)
- Moncalieri, Italy (#2246)
- Mondovì, Italy (#2247) (First to check-in)
- Cuneo, Italy (#2248) (First to check-in)
- Bardonecchia, Italy (#2249) (First to check-in)
- La Léchère-les-Bains, France (#2250)
- Albertville, France (#2251)
- Bernin, France (#2252)

I was going to mention Vicolungo, but @Bredo and @Bighorn beat me to it. Weird that it was not on my supercharging.life map, but when I used the Check-In Now feature it was there. It was a normal supercharger, so no idea why it wouldn't be on the map. I planned out my trip using sc.life so it caught me off guard when I saw it on the map. Fortunately, I did see it and it was right on the way to Cavaglia' which was my planned first stop.

Interesting that there are additional superchargers in Naples. That could be helpful since I'll be staying there over the weekend. I guess I need to cross-check with supercharge.info and the Nav to be sure I'm hitting all of them. Would be annoying if I drove up and down the Italian peninsula and missed some randomly. I plan on mostly sweeping the country other than Sardegna, possibly Brindisi, and a couple up in the mountains.

 

[GHammer]

It was in Europe where I recognized that there’s often a collection of photographs of the area and stalls.

It's a relatively recent addition. Not yet available (if ever) on MCU1 cars.

 

[khorton]

My other possibly unpopular opinion is that the American way of freeway driving, even with all its flaws, is superior to the European method. The European method caters to the extremely slow and extremely fast drivers. If you want to drive 40mph, you just camp in the right lane the whole way. If you want to drive 100+mph, you just bomb down the left lane and flash your lights and tailgate everyone who gets in your way like a ************ and you're a-ok. But if you are like 90% of the cars that just want to go roughly the speed limit, you are required to weave in and out of lanes constantly or else you are somehow a complete asshole. This makes no sense. And it isn't compatible with strict speed camera enforcement. And it certainly isn't compatible with autopilot when your rental Model 3 doesn't have auto lane change

As someone who lived in France for a year, I'll offer a contrasting viewpoint. The big problem on the freeway in the US and Canada, in my experience, is the folks who park in the left lane, making it impossible for anyone to pass them. If they are slowly passing a long line of vehicles you can be stuck behind them for five minutes or longer. In France when I lived there (1987-88), if someone was in the left lane passing a long line of slower vehicles and you came up behind them, they would invariably slow down so they could move back into the right lane somewhere in the middle of that long line they were passing. You'd only he behind them for a few seconds, then they would get out of your way so you could pass them, then they would move left again and resume passing that long line of slower vehicles. But you were expected to do the same thing if anyone was coming up behind you - get back to the right to let them by without forcing them to slow down.

Mind you, this was back in the days before the French used speed cameras. I usually cruised at 160 km/hr on the Autoroute, and would be passed by some big BMW or Mercedes doing 200 km/hr or faster every few minutes.