Tested: Pros & Cons of charging Ford EV (Mach-E) at Tesla Superchargers -- by WSJ

[MAhauler]

Good watch. This WSJ journalist charges her Mach-E at 10 different Tesla superchargers and shares her experience -- pros and the cons.

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/jo...-of-them/F248B963-4C04-43A3-8AEE-526DB90D16D5

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[boggle]

Waiting for the inevitable articles from Telsa owners moaning about us blocking spots.

Despite Tesla's blessing, I'm not sure this will be received well.

 

[Zprime29]

Blocking it like they suggest will at least prevent someone from pulling up alongside and then discovering they can't use it. If I where a tesla driver, that would make me more angry than seeing it blocked and going to a working spot off the bat. Of course, I don't think like most tesla drivers so...who knows.

 

[Howard_Scott_Warshaw]

Imagine in a few years time, rolling up in your Model X to see thee stations blocked by a Chevy bolt charging at 50 kW. I'd punt a baby.

 

[ddimit]

Blocking it like they suggest will at least prevent someone from pulling up alongside and then discovering they can't use it. If I where a tesla driver, that would make me more angry than seeing it blocked and going to a working spot off the bat. Of course, I don't think like most tesla drivers so...who knows.

I ordered a collapsible orange cone from Amazon. When it gets to the point I would block it to prevent a stall from being used, I will cone it off.

Tesla techs do this when they service a site.
Not sure if it will be that effective though I saw a Tesla driver roll up and move the cone and back in. The Tesla Tech came over and chewed him a new one for moving the cone. There is a bit of entitlement, so I am sure there will be conflicts in the future

 

[Zprime29]

I ordered a collapsible orange cone from Amazon. When it gets to the point I would block it to prevent a stall from being used, I will cone it off.

Tesla techs do this when they service a site.
Not sure if it will be that effective though I saw a Tesla driver roll up and move the cone and back in. The Tesla Tech came over and chewed him a new one for moving the cone. There is a bit of entitlement, so I am sure there will be conflicts in the future

Maybe you need 2 cones, some caution tape, and some white sidewalk chalk.

 

[TheWoo]

I haven't yet charged at a Supercharger site and I'm ready to stop talking about us "blocking two chargers". That's not an accurate description. At V3 locations, if we're parking in a stall and using the charger on the driver side, that's the charger we're using. There's nothing preventing another vehicle with a port on the same side as ours from pulling into the spot to our right and also charging.

It's not our fault Tesla installed the V3 chargers the way they did. They made the conscious decision to do it that way because it made sense in a closed system, but they also made the conscious decision to open their chargers to other manufacturers with a variety of charge port locations. That means everyone is going to have to learn to get along.

As long as there's a free spot to the right of the right-most charger, you could say a Tesla is blocking two spots when it uses the charger to its right just as easily as a Ford is when using a charger to the left. Anyone who voices displeasure to me is going to hear that explanation.

Now, if you're pulling in across spots, that's a different story. Don't do that.

 

[bmwhitetx]

^ This. There is no correct spot. Tesla says so themselves on their page. Park where you can access a charger. Period.
I think humanity will figure it out. Some of us are stressing out needlessly.
We have had MagicDock access for almost a year now. I have not seen any reports of fist fights or deaths there.

 

[bmwhitetx]

I ordered a collapsible orange cone from Amazon. When it gets to the point I would block it to prevent a stall from being used, I will cone it off.

You are going to cone off a spot that a Mach-E or Lightning could use to charge??? Or a spot for a Tesla to park and wait??

 

[Lytning]

Maybe you need 2 cones, some caution tape, and some white sidewalk chalk.

 

[LazyLightningATX]

^ This. There is no correct spot. Tesla says so themselves on their page. Park where you can access a charger. Period.
I think humanity will figure it out. Some of us are stressing out needlessly.
We have had MagicDock access for almost a year now. I have not seen any reports of fist fights or deaths there.

The one time I've gotten use magic dock, up there in Arlington (or wherever that technically is), I was the only vehicle there, but I still used the far end to not block anyone!

 

[mrau]

Might be time to do away with the painted yellow lines at the Superchargers.
Just park where you can when you can.

 

[ddimit]

You are going to cone off a spot that a Mach-E or Lightning could use to charge??? Or a spot for a Tesla to park and wait??

No See the image the red slot would be coned off as its non useable to anyone.

 

[LazyLightningATX]

No See the image the red slot would be coned off as its non useable to anyone.

Not usable to anyone in a tesla...another ford could charge where your cone would be...obv assuming a tesla was not already plugged on the left..

 

[bmwhitetx]

Not usable to anyone in a tesla...another ford could charge where your cone would be...

No he's correct, the Tesla in space 1 is using the charger that a Ford would use. But I still wouldn't cone anything off. Someone may want to go ahead and park there and wait.

But I defer to @ddimit who's owned a Tesla for 9 years on what the etiquette seems to be at SC stations.

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