Tesla SC users question

[RLXXI]

They finally opened up a whole bunch of super charges nearby so I decided to give one a try. My questions is, what is a normal charging rate for our trucks? This is what it was giving me. 165kW. Is that slow, fast, normal?

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[Rayden]

Yes, I've seen that lots of times when I've been there.

 

[K6CCC]

Since your temperature shows 84, I assume pre-conditioning for cold weather was not an issue

165KW is not out of line to start. It likely will trickle up a little as the battery voltage comes up, and then drift down. Likely 120 - 150KW after 10 minutes or so and largely stay that way till you get close to 80%. Best I have seen is high 180s, but it won't stay that way for very long. I have had a couple that were pretty slow. Had a V3 station that was running most of the session in the low 100s down to mid 90s. Granted it was a fairly hot day, but when I unplugged, the NACS connector was downright hot (I grabbed gloves). After disconnecting my A2Z adapter, it was not at all hot, so the heat was in the NACS connector and may have been causing the charger to ramp down some.

Was this a V3 or a V4 station, and was the station pretty full?

 

[RLXXI]

Since your temperature shows 84, I assume pre-conditioning for cold weather was not an issue

165KW is not out of line to start. It likely will trickle up a little as the battery voltage comes up, and then drift down. Likely 120 - 150KW after 10 minutes or so and largely stay that way till you get close to 80%. Best I have seen is high 180s, but it won't stay that way for very long. I have had a couple that were pretty slow. Had a V3 station that was running most of the session in the low 100s down to mid 90s. Granted it was a fairly hot day, but when I unplugged, the NACS connector was downright hot (I grabbed gloves). After disconnecting my A2Z adapter, it was not at all hot, so the heat was in the NACS connector and may have been causing the charger to ramp down some.

Was this a V3 or a V4 station, and was the station pretty full?

V3 and there were 7 out of 24 in use. It climbed a little higher right after I snapped the pic to 170 then slowly dropped down to 157 before I decided to leave after 10 mins.

 

[K6CCC]

Some more data. I keep a charging spreadsheet that includes data that you don't get from the charging history in the Ford App. I don't log the peak charge rate, but I do calculate the average rate. Obviously, charge sessions that get to higher than 80% will rapidly go down. Here is a complete list of every Tesla SC session with start and end battery percentage and average charge rate, if it was a V3 or V4, and any other notes.

56-75% 129.23 KW V3
75-90% 52.50 KW V3
72-87% 54.29 KW V3
25-80% 151.03 KW V3
65-90% 74.82 KW V3
64-90% 78.62 KW V4
38-89% 118.33 KW V3
19-83% 132.31 KW V4
31-90% 110.45 KW V3
71-95% 46.77 KW V3
52-83% 117.27 KW V4
17-95% 80.26 KW V3
58-95% 57.82 KW V4
24-60% 160.00 KW V4
45-89% 98.92 KW V4
22-90% 112.80 KW V4 - about 110 degrees
24-80% 108.57 KW V3 - hot NACS connector
44-63% 173.33 KW V3
72-86% 80.00 KW V3
22-74% 116.00 KW V4
63-90% 75.93 KW V4
27-80% 116.21 KW V3
16-80% 119.59 KW V3 - about 110 degrees
33-95% 84.58 KW V4 - 105 degrees

As you can see there is a lot of variation. If you ignore the ones that charged above 80%, there were some pretty good charge rates. I do wish the charge curve would stay higher until 80% - or at least close.

 

[B177y]

V3 and there were 7 out of 24 in use. It climbed a little higher right after I snapped the pic to 170 then slowly dropped down to 157 before I decided to leave after 10 mins.

Your charge rates are close to what I have seen at every Tesla charging session I have had, maybe 40-50 sessions in total by now.

Like @K6CCC said, I'll usually climb to a 180kW rate for a bit, and then it slowly goes down from there depending on temps.

 

[RLXXI]

Sounds good, thanks all. Last time I plugged into this same exact unit it told me to kick rocks, lol. Won't be using them as I charge at home much much cheaper. Still it's nice to know if something goes sideways in life and I happen to be low, I can zip over and head out.

 

[RLXXI]

Some more data. I keep a charging spreadsheet that includes data that you don't get from the charging history in the Ford App. I don't log the peak charge rate, but I do calculate the average rate. Obviously, charge sessions that get to higher than 80% will rapidly go down. Here is a complete list of every Tesla SC session with start and end battery percentage and average charge rate, if it was a V3 or V4, and any other notes.

56-75% 129.23 KW V3
75-90% 52.50 KW V3
72-87% 54.29 KW V3
25-80% 151.03 KW V3
65-90% 74.82 KW V3
64-90% 78.62 KW V4
38-89% 118.33 KW V3
19-83% 132.31 KW V4
31-90% 110.45 KW V3
71-95% 46.77 KW V3
52-83% 117.27 KW V4
17-95% 80.26 KW V3
58-95% 57.82 KW V4
24-60% 160.00 KW V4
45-89% 98.92 KW V4
22-90% 112.80 KW V4 - about 110 degrees
24-80% 108.57 KW V3 - hot NACS connector
44-63% 173.33 KW V3
72-86% 80.00 KW V3
22-74% 116.00 KW V4
63-90% 75.93 KW V4
27-80% 116.21 KW V3
16-80% 119.59 KW V3 - about 110 degrees
33-95% 84.58 KW V4 - 105 degrees

As you can see there is a lot of variation. If you ignore the ones that charged above 80%, there were some pretty good charge rates. I do wish the charge curve would stay higher until 80% - or at least close.

Here's some more data. Was a test run since Tesla opened this station up to all.

 

[abcut973]

Yikes that price is something.... Baton Rouge is 10 cents cheaper!
As for the charging rate you are within range. The highest I've seen was 188kw consistently at V4 stations in Texas.

 

[RLXXI]

Yikes that price is something.... Baton Rouge is 10 cents cheaper!
As for the charging rate you are within range. The highest I've seen was 188kw consistently at V4 stations in Texas.

It's in a well to do neighborhood not far from a yacht harbor.

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