1st Road-trip with Tesla Charge

[MrLoganRoss]

Seattle Area to the Canadian border town of Sumas and back.

-All and all, really good, although I hoped the perfect weather would offset the need to drive 70-80 (it didn’t and I ended up with about 220 miles of range on my 23.5 GTPE even though it said 265 when I left the house)

- I stopped at a Tesla superstation on our way home for the sole purpose of trying out my new Lectron adapter. It worked like a charm.

-I used the in-car public charging app at the charging station to tell it which charger I was plugged in to.

-Neither the Tesla app nor the FordPass app worked for charging. But the Tesla app was ok for finding compatible chargers.

- it was annoying that my ford navigation search did not pull up Tesla chargers

-the charge was pretty fast at about 109kw until it hit 80% and I unplugged.


I am feeling a little bit more psychologically safe ?

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[MightyMike]

This is something that frustrates me to no end. How do I find the chargers that are compatible? Ford's nav app is useless. ABRP works pretty good, but I can only select based on plug type. But not all NACS chargers in the tesla network are compatible with ford cars even if you have the adapter (at least I am led to believe that).

So I usually look for stations with Magic Dock. All of those work. In a pinch I can bring up the other app to "find compatible tesla chargers" but that's a giant hassle, and I would only do that to find an emergency charge location.

 

[MrLoganRoss]

The public charging app in-car does it. I just wish they would integrate it into the in-car navigation app.

 

[RickMachE]

Seattle Area to the Canadian border town of Sumas and back.

-All and all, really good, although I hoped the perfect weather would offset the need to drive 70-80 (it didn’t and I ended up with about 220 miles of range on my 23.5 GTPE even though it said 265 when I left the house)

- I stopped at a Tesla superstation on our way home for the sole purpose of trying out my new Lectron adapter. It worked like a charm.

-I used the in-car public charging app at the charging station to tell it which charger I was plugged in to.

-Neither the Tesla app nor the FordPass app worked for charging. But the Tesla app was ok for finding compatible chargers.

- it was annoying that my ford navigation search did not pull up Tesla chargers

-the charge was pretty fast at about 109kw until it hit 80% and I unplugged.


I am feeling a little bit more psychologically safe ?

Makes zero sense that neither the Tesla app (once you setup account, specified car, and possession of adapter) nor FordPass worked. Zero. Did you activate and then plug in? Plug and Charge should also work. Guaranteed user error.

Nav is known issue. Annoying?

This is something that frustrates me to no end. How do I find the chargers that are compatible? Ford's nav app is useless. ABRP works pretty good, but I can only select based on plug type. But not all NACS chargers in the tesla network are compatible with ford cars even if you have the adapter (at least I am led to believe that).

So I usually look for stations with Magic Dock. All of those work. In a pinch I can bring up the other app to "find compatible tesla chargers" but that's a giant hassle, and I would only do that to find an emergency charge location.

Tesla app.
Tesla website.
PlugShare set properly.
ABRP works fine.

 

[silverelan]

Glad to hear it worked out for you. Which supercharger did you visit?

 

[MrLoganRoss]

I visited Burlington Washington.

the Tesla app just failed - it would not load even after trying everything down to rebooting the phone.

the public charging app in sync worked - plug n’ play

the Ford app just didn’t show them

unfortunately there aren’t any superchargers in the immediate Seattle area, so my next test will have to wait till I have another destination near one.

 

[Dustus]

The ford nav does show some Tesla chargers, primarily around me it shows a couple of stations with a red text that they are not compatible. But on my recent road trip it did not show any of the stations that I used that were compatible. Very strange.

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