Electric Vehicles: General topics

Update: I followed @Eric ‘s advice and rebooted (I think, I held the volume button for about 30 or 40 seconds until the car went silent and the instrument panel went from almost black to black. Since the entertainment screen went black immediately, I wasn’t clear on how long to hold it.)

Anyway, then I tried charging again. The red light on the wall connector flashed again - no discernible pattern (6 flashes, then 8, then green, then 3, then green, etc.) But within about a minute the car started charging.

We’ve charged the car successfully now three times. The first time, I was there, and it did the red/green flash dance. The second time my wife did it on her own, and she sent me a video of the normal green pulsing, but it is quite possible that it flashed red at first. And now we have this time.

I’m still going to replace the charger with a Tesla Universal. My Gen 1 is 13 years old, almost, and other than supporting 80A/22kW, the modern wall connectors have advantages. If that doesn’t work, I’ll replace the wall connector with a 14-50 socket and we’ll just use the mobile connectors.
 
Update to update: so I just watched two official BMW videos, and read an official BMW FAQ, and all three disagree about how you reboot the car, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t actually reboot it.

I asked my wife, and it *did* flash red the time she successfully charged it herself. So it’s quite possible we just didn’t wait long enough last night for the charging to start.

In any event, this ain’t no way to run a charging rodeo, so once I receive the new connector I’ll decide whether or not to have it installed based on how reliably charging works on her car.
 
Cmaier said:
Update: I followed @Eric ‘s advice and rebooted (I think, I held the volume button for about 30 or 40 seconds until the car went silent and the instrument panel went from almost black to black. Since the entertainment screen went black immediately, I wasn’t clear on how long to hold it.)

Anyway, then I tried charging again. The red light on the wall connector flashed again - no discernible pattern (6 flashes, then 8, then green, then 3, then green, etc.) But within about a minute the car started charging.

We’ve charged the car successfully now three times. The first time, I was there, and it did the red/green flash dance. The second time my wife did it on her own, and she sent me a video of the normal green pulsing, but it is quite possible that it flashed red at first. And now we have this time.

I’m still going to replace the charger with a Tesla Universal. My Gen 1 is 13 years old, almost, and other than supporting 80A/22kW, the modern wall connectors have advantages. If that doesn’t work, I’ll replace the wall connector with a 14-50 socket and we’ll just use the mobile connectors.
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I would go with the UI EVSE, but that is probably because I already have a UDMP. It looks like it could support 12kW (50A) charging. It would be more of a no brainer (for me) if the plug was NACS, but a J1772 adapter could work.
 
diamond.g said:
A chargepoint home flex could also work.



EDIT: Car and driver said it is the best. https://www.caranddriver.com/shopping-advice/a39917614/best-home-ev-chargers-tested/
Plus you don't give Tesla any more money even if the latest Universal WC is a good deal.
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call me a snowflake, but as long as I’m still driving a tesla (probably be September before my new car arrives) I want the little button on the handle that opens my charge door. There’s no other way to open it other than going through a couple screens on the touch screen or using the app. Same with unlocking the charge port. I’d have to climb over the wire to get in the car, etc. A minor annoyance, I guess, but an annoyance just the same.
 
Cmaier said:
call me a snowflake, but as long as I’m still driving a tesla (probably be September before my new car arrives) I want the little button on the handle that opens my charge door. There’s no other way to open it other than going through a couple screens on the touch screen or using the app. Same with unlocking the charge port. I’d have to climb over the wire to get in the car, etc. A minor annoyance, I guess, but an annoyance just the same.
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Does tapping the chargeport door not open it on your older S? I think unlocking works with the adapter, but I'm not 100% sure (I haven't had to publicly charge on J1772 in a few years so I don't remember).

I guess you guys can suffer through the handshake errors until you get your iX.
 
diamond.g said:
Does tapping the chargeport door not open it on your older S? I think unlocking works with the adapter, but I'm not 100% sure (I haven't had to publicly charge on J1772 in a few years so I don't remember).

I guess you guys can suffer through the handshake errors until you get your iX.
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LOL, no. Tapping the door won’t open it. It also doesn’t have the motor to close the door like the modern S’s.
 
Cmaier said:
call me a snowflake, but as long as I’m still driving a tesla (probably be September before my new car arrives) I want the little button on the handle that opens my charge door. There’s no other way to open it other than going through a couple screens on the touch screen or using the app. Same with unlocking the charge port. I’d have to climb over the wire to get in the car, etc. A minor annoyance, I guess, but an annoyance just the same.
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I figure I have to be there to plug it in anyway so it's no biggie for me to push to open the door. I think I'm regressing when it comes to this stuff, opting for simple manual control for basic functions.
 
Dissected out all of the non Musk Nazi posts and put them here to keep things in order, let me know if I missed anything and carry on.
 

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