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With Tesla opening up a part of their Supercharger network for non-Teslas to use, has anyone taken their Mercedes to one to try it out? If you have, how did it go?
Have you used a Tesla Supercharger?
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With Tesla opening up a part of their Supercharger network for non-Teslas to use, has anyone taken their Mercedes to one to try it out? If you have, how did it go?
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Here in Germany only a few Superchargers have been opend to all cars. Most of the time the prices are higher at the Superchargers. So a lot of Teslas use other charging stations with lowers prices like the EnBW charging network (mostly 300kW). Soon Tesla will release and install Superchargers V4. They have longer cables that could be used better with non-Teslas.
I AM NOT PLANING TO USE IT, IN AT LIST 2 YEARS THATS WEN MY FREE CHARGING IS OVER.
Having to use their app to start and stop the charge puts me off alla bit of a hassle. I rarely use public charging but Ionity works well for me though I had to try 3 different stalls the other day to get one to start charging. Here in France only some of the Tesla network is available so that also tends to mean it is not incl in planning and of course using electric intelligence in the navigation system with the Mercedes me charge filter excels Tesla automatically.
I see that here in the UK they have opened up some of the sites for non-tesla cars. You will note I have said some.
When this came up recently, I thought they would be making them available on sites that were near motorway services for obvious reasons, but this does not appear to be the case because there are some available near Banbury in Oxfordshire just a short distance from the M40 near McDonald's, but the very large site near the Park and ride just off the A34 south of Oxford have not been made available. I can only presume this is because the Oxford A34 Park and Ride Rapid chargers are plentiful for non-Tesla cars.
I have a Tesla Power wall 2 battery in my house and hence I have the app. This is handy because all I have to do is put my credit card details into the app and I can use the facility if I need to.
I have the Electric Juice card (Octopus Electroverse) that is handy for many chargers. This is handy if you are with Octopus as your main provider. I have not used it yet, but it appears you will get 5% off providers such as Ionity.
Naturally, I have the Mercedes me card and have used it 3 times to do a splash and dash when traveling around.
When this came up recently, I thought they would be making them available on sites that were near motorway services for obvious reasons, but this does not appear to be the case because there are some available near Banbury in Oxfordshire just a short distance from the M40 near McDonald's, but the very large site near the Park and ride just off the A34 south of Oxford have not been made available. I can only presume this is because the Oxford A34 Park and Ride Rapid chargers are plentiful for non-Tesla cars.
I have a Tesla Power wall 2 battery in my house and hence I have the app. This is handy because all I have to do is put my credit card details into the app and I can use the facility if I need to.
I have the Electric Juice card (Octopus Electroverse) that is handy for many chargers. This is handy if you are with Octopus as your main provider. I have not used it yet, but it appears you will get 5% off providers such as Ionity.
Naturally, I have the Mercedes me card and have used it 3 times to do a splash and dash when traveling around.
On the 30th of December 2022, I went to the Ionity site just off the A1 near Peterborough and hooked up and it did not work. I rang the Ionity number stated on the side of the charger and the lady could not get it to work for me although it was working for the car that had just left. The lady was very helpful and advised that the charger next to me was just finishing and told me to go to it. We hooked up and it worked fine. The nice thing is that I was never charged for that session. About £6 I think it was.
I do the majority of my charging at home near Witney in the UK and have only used an Ionity charger 3 times since signing up for the 1 year (no subscription offer). One of these was on the M25 (Chobham?) before the M23 when going to Gatport Airwick
, because it meant I was able to go directly home without charging after landing back in the UK late at night.
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I used the Supercharger a lot when I owned my 2014 Tesla Model S. I have not used it since I purchased my EQS. The network is well maintained a reliable. Having the network as another option will be a great benefit to the EV community.
Please explain why you make this statement. The car's battery management will look after its health, so not an issue .
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Like all rechargeable batteries and not just EV cars, if fast charging a lot then the life span will shorten and build crystal in each cell and blocks the cell for 100% use.
There is another way that can also damage the battery and it is putting your foot down on the power all the time and pushing the car hard all the time like a Petrol car revs to the 6k red line.
In Hong Kong, many dealers check the log of the car charging to see how many times it has been Fast charged, and if too many the price will go down for the 2nd hand value.
I don't know if it is the same for the rest of the world
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