Cannonball record broken on public DCFC!

[dbsb3233]

There's of course The Cannonball Run (1981) - IMDb but there's also The Gumball Rally (1976) - IMDb (which is a better movie than you might first think)

Ah yes, I remember seeing both of those when they came out. Fun movies.

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[Woeo]

For the older generation:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/38578...esla-for-the-fastest-ev-cannonball-run-record

 

[malba2366]

Lucky guy! The Taycan is such an amazing vehicle. I wish I could get one, but cant swing having 2 p cars at the same time.

 

[generaltso]

 

[generaltso]

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

I just started this but man - "the nav is broken the SIM is broken" holy heck

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

hey they literally went to my local EA station lol where I posted elsewhere on here them putting those stations in. I wish I knew when they were there; I would have said hello ?

(the 350 kW stations didn't work, the 150 kW did)

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

hmm "guess - oh - mee - ter"

I always read that word as "guess - ah - meh - ter"

this random observation from the video while I'm watching it brought to you my GoGoGadgetMachE that's right GoGoGadgetMachE your trusted home for random live observations during YouTube watching since earlier today.

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

another tech failure at about 1:09:00... who made this car, $TSLA?

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

also to get to something serious for a second - they had serious EA support, like talking to them live as they went and all, and they still had the weirdness they had.

It's all software and it can be fixed, but I admit it doesn't give me the fuzziest of feelings about EA when even with that much support - support normal people like me will never get - they had this much trouble.

of course we don't know (at least as of 1:12:32) if it's really EA at fault rather than the car, but it certainly seems to be.

 

[ChasingCoral]

also to get to something serious for a second - they had serious EA support, like talking to them live as they went and all, and they still had the weirdness they had.

It's all software and it can be fixed, but I admit it doesn't give me the fuzziest of feelings about EA when even with that much support - support normal people like me will never get - they had this much trouble.

of course we don't know (at least as of 1:12:32) if it's really EA at fault rather than the car, but it certainly seems to be.

Even talking to the right people doesn't do it when the hardware is against you. On our first Leaf road trip we arrived at the EVGo DCFC at the Queenstown Outlets only to find it dead. Yes, the app said it was fine. We added some L2 to make sure we would have enough range to our DCFC in Cambridge. The ChargePoint app said it was working but we didn't trust it, so we called ChargePoint. They checked and rebooted the system -- all set, right?

When we got to Cambridge, the DCFC wouldn't charge. We called ChargePoint and they rebooted it. Their system showed it was fine. The big warning triangle on the charger said they were wrong. It was a very long and interesting day.

I'm really glad we're about to get a car with almost 3 times the range and the charging network is much better now!

This Cannonball record shows that the DCFC network is sufficient for even runs like this to be possible. The video shows the devil's in the details and, as they say, it's all details.

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