Tell us your Tesla Supercharger experience

[Schroederhc]

North Bend?

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[Tomo]

North Bend?

Indeed it was!

 

[Schroederhc]

It's a good place to stop. It's rarely too busy, and the pricing is reasonable in the Tesla app. It's also the perfect location for a hard drive over two Mountain passes! If you want to try your luck, 4 chargers in the opposite corner mostly work.

 

[catpupu]

Wife wanted to go to the outlets at Cabazon, CA so I took the chance to try the new official Porsche adapter with a Tesla supercharger. superchargers there are Tesla only so I went to the adjacent casino and used their superchargers.

On the Tesla app it showed the superchargers would work for the Taycan (250kw max V3 superchargers), however I tried 3 stalls and non of them worked. Both the car and the Tesla app constantly told me there’s an unknown error after a long handshake while the Mercedes EQS next to me was getting charge no problem with an adapter.

Eventually I gave up and went to an EV go charger, till now I still don’t understand why this happened.

 

[DerekS]

I had a great supercharger experience today.

I needed a charge, so I navigated to EA. Of course there were only 4 stalls, and all were full.
I glanced across the lot and saw a bank of 15-20 Superchargers with plenty open stalls, all side-saddle.

It was an easy choice. I was in and out of there before any of the cars at the EA station had left.

 

[Zcd1]

Wife wanted to go to the outlets at Cabazon, CA so I took the chance to try the new official Porsche adapter with a Tesla supercharger. superchargers there are Tesla only so I went to the adjacent casino and used their superchargers.

On the Tesla app it showed the superchargers would work for the Taycan (250kw max V3 superchargers), however I tried 3 stalls and non of them worked. Both the car and the Tesla app constantly told me there’s an unknown error after a long handshake while the Mercedes EQS next to me was getting charge no problem with an adapter.

Eventually I gave up and went to an EV go charger, till now I still don’t understand why this happened.

There are two Supercharger sites near Cabazon - are you certain you weren't at the one that DOESN'T support NACS?

https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds...tion=CabazonCASupercharger2&functionType=nacs

 

[catpupu]

There are two Supercharger sites near Cabazon - are you certain you weren't at the one that DOESN'T support NACS?

https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds=33.95559651753756,-116.7208145390625,33.89171150530121,-116.8856094609375&search=Cabazon, CA 92230&location=CabazonCASupercharger2&functionType=nacs

Yes, otherwise the Mercedes next to me wouldn’t be able to charge either

 

[Jonathan S.]

Not worth it imo unless you use Supercharger regularly.

What isn’t worth it?

 

[Stu Kan]

Received Porsche NACS adapter last week and tried it yesterday, Sunday. (I had previously added my car to the Tesla app.) One of the Tesla supercharger sites near me has one charger that allows Teslas to pull in head first, so-to-speak, so I went for that (had to wait a few minutes for a model Y to leave...) and backed in...see pic. Successfully charged to 60% SoC with a steady 136kW.

As I was driving home I went by another Tesla site and noticed a Ford Lightning beginning to charge with an extension cable. In talking to the owner a bit, it turns out he had just bought the Hansshow adapter/extension cable and was testing it. His Lightning charged successfully and he asked if I wanted to try it on my Taycan and so I pulled straight into a regular spot and we attached/plugged in and initiated charging via the Tesla app and it worked great.

 

[daveo4EV]

Received Porsche NACS adapter last week and tried it yesterday, Sunday. (I had previously added my car to the Tesla app.) One of the Tesla supercharger sites near me has one charger that allows Teslas to pull in head first, so-to-speak, so I went for that (had to wait a few minutes for a model Y to leave...) and backed in...see pic. Successfully charged to 60% SoC with a steady 136kW.

As I was driving home I went by another Tesla site and noticed a Ford Lightning beginning to charge with an extension cable. In talking to the owner a bit, it turns out he had just bought the Hansshow adapter/extension cable and was testing it. His Lightning charged successfully and he asked if I wanted to try it on my Taycan and so I pulled straight into a regular spot and we attached/plugged in and initiated charging via the Tesla app and it worked great.

this is great news - any sort of adapter should work - these devices are mostly passive "pass-though" devices - they are a physical adaption/adapter NOT a "converter"…the charging protocol in use when charging at a Supercharger is still fundamentally CCS…

In North America: there are 5 electrical connectors in use during a CCS fast charging session…

1. High-Voltage DC #1
2. High-Voltage DC #2
3. Low Voltage communciation #1
4. Low Voltage communication #2
5. Electrical Ground

both CCS and NACS (Tesla) are a 5 connector plug - just the wrong shape for each other…

so all an adapter is doing is bridging one 5 connector plug shape to another 5 connector plug-shape - the electrical requirements are unchanged…and the car nor the charging stall even "know" there is an adapter in the mix…

the big "change" here was/is Tesla "adding" CCS support to their supercharger hardware (V3/V4 supercharger sites only)…

so any "adapter" that correctly and safely bridges the NACS five connectors to the CCS five connectors should function…

the only problem with adapter is making sure they are robust enough in their design to properly handle 400V/800V 500 amp DC connectors and not melt or short out or physically fail…

 

[F1Ruaraidh]

Even on native CCS over here in the UK, my Taycan has a 100% failure rate on Tesla Superchargers failing with a yellow ring of death at exactly 60% SOC every time.

Of course no fault found by the utterly useless OPC who determine that, WITHOUT TAKING THE CAR TO A SUPERCHARGER TO CHECK.

Useless.

Clearly it's a fault with the 150kW DC DC converter which needs to be changed under warranty. That or a battery issue as the Supercharger is more picky than most on isolation resistance (which is the cause of failure that my Tesla app gives) while my Model S will happily charge on the same post (so not a SuC issue).

Ho hum, back in again to the OPC in a few weeks hopefully to replace the DCDC, will it ever charge properly? (It had a replacement AC charger earlier in the year).

 

[slothinker]

Wife wanted to go to the outlets at Cabazon, CA so I took the chance to try the new official Porsche adapter with a Tesla supercharger. superchargers there are Tesla only so I went to the adjacent casino and used their superchargers.

On the Tesla app it showed the superchargers would work for the Taycan (250kw max V3 superchargers), however I tried 3 stalls and non of them worked. Both the car and the Tesla app constantly told me there’s an unknown error after a long handshake while the Mercedes EQS next to me was getting charge no problem with an adapter.

Eventually I gave up and went to an EV go charger, till now I still don’t understand why this happened.

Exactly my experience in San Luis Obispo with Level 3 chargers.

 

[catpupu]

Exactly my experience in San Luis Obispo with Level 3 chargers.

Were you able to try a different location? I wonder if it’s my car’s problem

 

[slothinker]

Were you able to try a different location? I wonder if it’s my car’s problem

I charged at two locations and two different pumps at each of those locations.

I've got some time today so I think I'll try it again and this time I'll also go to a SuperCharger 4 location a few miles away. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[slothinker]

I have two EVs. I've successfully charged my Ioniq6 using A2Z adapter at our local Tesla superchargers several times.

However, no such luck with the Taycan. Someone suggested removing the Hyundai info. from the Tesla app. Good idea but it didn't help.

Yesterday I went to the only Tesla SC4 in the area and still no dice. Attached are photos of the Tesla app's screen after declining to charge the Taycan. Also a screenshot of the SC4's nice little monitor which reads "Unauthorized vehicle"

My guess is that Porsche support has not been turned on my local set of SuperChargers. I'm going to contact Tesla and Porsche just in case that is the case.

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