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Sorry FlasherZ, I was a mainframe guy at the time!
Oh, do I remember pricy and hard to find MCA peripherals. Fortunately, the PS/2 reign was rather limited.This is correct. IBM used MicroChannel adapters on both PS/2 and RS/6000 (both POWER and PPC processor arch), until PCI took over. The cards were incredibly expensive, as noted. However, MCA did bring us many desirable features that were pulled into PCI. If anyone remembers the craziness of device discovery, "base address" and manual IRQ's - that was the pain of ISA and VMbus architectures. EISA helped slightly with its configuration parameters, but it was MCA that brought standard system-driven configurable parameters to expansion cards.
(Full disclosure: a big fan of IBM's architecture, especially RS/6000, even if they didn't execute it well...)
So, what if Tesla were to collect a percentage of money from each car manufacturer that would like to utilize the charging stations? In the case of Nissan, they could charge a modest sum to Nissan to unlock the Leafs ability (via an adapter) to utilize the SC network?
@snort,
Not being critical, however, I believe MCA was Micro Channel Architecture not Media Channel.
I owned a PS/2 with MCA and boards were exorbitantly expensive. It did work very well however.
Many SCs are located in low population density areas to facilitate travel. There won't be the requirement to have the same SC density for 10 M cars.there is presently about 1 supercharger for every 250 model S's in the US. If they sell 10M cars, which is entirely plausible, they'd have to build 40,000 to maintain that level...
Many SCs are located in low population density areas to facilitate travel. There won't be the requirement to have the same SC density for 10 M cars.
why is that?
No, your experience is not typical of the entire network. You are in a fairly high density of Teslas.... I can't think of any reason they would not do the same number of long trips on average. I'm still new to this but I've never yet been alone in a supercharger station. If my small sample is representative (is it?), tripling the demand per station would have me waiting more than half the ...
No, your experience is not typical of the entire network. You are in a fairly high density of Teslas.
My experience is also not typical of the entire network, but in my case, I rarely have any company and have never seen more than one other Tesla at a SC except on our trip to California. And that only happened in California.
Superchargers needed to be placed in less Tesla dense areas to allow interstate travel. Many of these have not yet become saturated.
Yes, supercharger density in these areas will also need to increase eventually. But not as much as those areas that are at, or near saturation.
Not to mention that Tesla could make their SCer protocol just a little bit smarter and greatly increase the capacity of the over all system. They know where every car is already, they know how many cars are using any particular SCer and what their SOC is already, they could easily throw up a rerouting suggestion to take you to a less congested SCer. Even better, if everyone is more or less using the on board trip routing software the system can optimize the routes so everyone gets a spot when they need one. It's not a problem yet, but if/when it is just building more SCers won't be the only part of the solution.
The opening of the Santa Barbara Sales, Service and soon Supercharger event was very nice.
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A supercharger attached to this site will be open in about Six months. There will be a 24 hour lounge for charging patrons. I was told that when you park at the supercharger, a code to enter the lounge will appear on your screen for entry should you choose to use it.
No, your experience is not typical of the entire network. You are in a fairly high density of Teslas.
My experience is also not typical of the entire network, but in my case, I rarely have any company and have never seen more than one other Tesla at a SC except on our trip to California. And that only happened in California.