One of their search options is "Superchargers open to NACS", which shows a lot more locations on the map. They have this note:
The silver collar is V2. Not a different version of V3.There are different versions of the V3 chargers, remember to look at the color of the collar. Black is good, and silver is not compatible.
thanks for clarifying. 2 different types of v3 would be silly.
Yeah. Tesla isn’t really very good at upgrading older infrastructure. They never have been. It’s rare they even replace a V2 with V3. If anything they sometimes will add to the site but leave the old ones too.
Having worked for tesla, although not on chargers, that is exactly the sort of thing they do regularly.
Yes, I remember they said they would not open all V3 to NACS adapters, and as a private business they can do what they want, I'm a bit disappointed about the freeway rest stops issue, is all. It's a special case because (at least in the past) getting on and off a toll road would sometimes / often require extra payment (depending on the exact toll road, two shorter segments might be more than one longer segment). The rest stops inside a toll road are also more convenient, and owned by the state they go through. The mandate for the state is to serve the drivers passing through, so having a broad spread of charging options is part of their mandate, so I would hope the state that owns the rest area presses Tesla to make those NACS compatible.
The issue of the "KW rating" of chargers, and how fast they will charge your car, is fairly complicated. I'd suggest finding some of the threads / general posts on the topic. The short form is you can use anything the plug fits. 350kw rated chargers almost certainly will max out your machE. 150kw, 200kw, even 50kw, get more complicated.
i don't think @AhardFSU was indicating "every" station needed upgrades to support NACS - just some of those that still haven't been made available. some of the V3 cabinets pre-date the rollout of ISO-15118 capability by YEARS so it isn't unsurprising that older ones may need a mix of hardware+software to get them up to date. they don't have to open all of the dispensers though - tesla manages all of this closer to a site-wide basis.
In short, you can't get any real benefit from a 350kW charger, and the Rivian can. So you should stick with 150s unless there are multiple 350s.
there are no "V4 Chargers" out there yet - there are V4 dispensers with V3 cabinets. supercharge.info has an indication of the dispenser version but there isn't currently a way to filter on it and they're still tuning the data.
Thanks, Rick yeah, that spot where I was charging There’s like two or four of those 350 I’ve just never noticed them for some reason. The only reason I saw it the other day because the Rivian was over there and the one I was on gave me an error after charging for about five minutes and it was only charging about 35 kW so I went to the other 150 and that charging right around 90 so I’ll try the 350 next time.
