I have no experience with salvage cars for sure. We bought a model 3 my wife drove for 4 years and almost exclusively charged on 120vac with the EVSE it came with. We travels once or twice and used superchargers. However, I was under the impression if you get Tesla to inspect the vehicle they can certify it for supercharging. I am sure there is a fee. Also, I believe, there is a guy on the Tesla forum that can unlock the capability
Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, September 17, 2023, 5:38 PM, Cor van de Water via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: The Tesla owner parks her Model 3 in her *garage* and insists that she can't drive it because it does not have Supercharging availability and thus is worthless. Every EV'er with even a minimal experience in charging will see the fallacy presented here. Call it lying if you will. Apparently the battery of the Model 3 needed replacement and the car was not new, so it is likely that this person had experience with charging and was pissed off with Tesla (which I understand perfectly, my Model S also involuntarily lost Free Lifetime Supercharging capability due to a relatively minor fender bender that affected enough cosmetic body panels that the vehicle was declared salvage, without affecting anything related to charging, but alas, Tesla is very eager to remove Supercharging privileges, even if they were essentially purchased in the sale of the vehicle. What is even more painful is that *all* DC Fast Charging is disabled in order to remove SuperCharging, so even public charging is limited to the speed of Level 2 AC chargers...) Anyway, all my EVs have no Supercharging and while it can be convenient at times, I manage to drive my EVs fine after parking them in my garage and charging at home, or at work. Either will result in perfectly usable vehicles, but that will not grab headlines like the claim of this person saying that they have a pile of unusable metal in their garage. Apparently the media attention solved the problem though so I hope she is happy now. Cor. On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 12:40 PM EV List Lackey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > On 17 Sep 2023 at 14:06, paul dove via EV wrote: > > > Stories like this are so unbelievable. > > I have never communicated with Tesla via email. > > Any issue with my vehicle was handled via the phone app. > > They always respond in a timely manner > > Are you seriously suggesting that the Tesla owner in the news report is a > liar? > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > There'll be one corporation, selling one little box. > It'll do what you want, and tell you what you want, > And cost whatever you've got. > > -- Greg Brown, "Where is Maria," 1996 > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230918/a694b4b7/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
