‘ We charged a non-Tesla at a Supercharger. Here's how it went ‘

[DeusxMac]

Fritz wrote:
Gas tanks are all on the left or right rear qp and in the old days, a few behind the license plate.

You forgot in the tail light...

[rgG]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=Fritz]
Gas tanks are all on the left or right rear qp and in the old days, a few behind the license plate.

You forgot in the tail light...



Yep, those old 1950’s era Chevy’s were behind the tail light.

Some Jaguars had dual gas tanks and a filler on both rear QPs, but more up on the top than on the side.
Those fillers behind the license plate were the worst. Getting down nearly on your knees to get at the plate was a pain, and the plate had a little spring that would snap it back up and hit you, if you didn’t hold it down.

[rgG]

My 1972 Gremlin X had the perfect placement of the gas filler
One of the few nice things I could say about that car. Lol
I had a custom locking gas cap, since this was during the gas crisis and people would siphon out your gas.

[mrbigstuff]

rgG wrote:


My 1972 Gremlin X had the perfect placement of the gas filler
One of the few nice things I could say about that car. Lol
I had a custom locking gas cap, since this was during the gas crisis and people would siphon out your gas.

much to like about all of those clear sightlines, though! (ok, ok)

[rgG]

mrbigstuff wrote:
[quote=rgG]


My 1972 Gremlin X had the perfect placement of the gas filler
One of the few nice things I could say about that car. Lol
I had a custom locking gas cap, since this was during the gas crisis and people would siphon out your gas.

much to like about all of those clear sightlines, though! (ok, ok)
I loved the look of my little boxy hatchback, it was all the problems under the hood that pissed me off. Lol
Mine was silver with bright orange stripes and Levi’s upholstery. It was a head turner, if you could keep it running.

[Ken Sp.]

You will be happy to know that Tesla is building their next very large factory in Mexico. It appears that this will be the factory that produces the less expensive model, that is being called “the $25,000 Tesla“
I can see it going for around $30,000, but, they think that they can get the battery cost to be half of what it is now, and production could drop for the entire car by 30%.
As far as charging goes, they build superchargers in areas where cars are sold, plus, around every hundred miles on Thorofare‘s, so that people can travel from one place to another. They only recently just started putting Superchargers down in Mexico, so it is about where we were back in 2013 or so in the states.

https://electrek.co/2023/03/06/tesla-gig...e-details/

Speedy wrote:
Using Ken Sp.’s link: There are three Superchargers on the Yucatán peninsula including Mérida and Cancún. The next closest Supercharger is in Puebla some 750 miles away. I suppose a person could charge along the way using 110v. Or have their Tesla hauled there.

On a tangential but related note: My brother-in-law who lives in Mexico City would like an EV but he says they are too expensive and simply don’t pencil out. He can afford an EV but has decided to buy a hybrid. Mexico has no incentives to go EV; in fact the current president of the country campaigned on a promise to revive the oil industry. Mexico City has very high levels of air pollution and would benefit greatly by going electric. They have a number of ancient electric trolley buses but one of the latest bus lines whose busses travel on a fixed route in bus-exclusive lanes uses Diesel busses.

On an even more tangential note: We drove our PHEV Cadillac ELR to Mexico City a couple of months ago. We could not pass the emissions test in the city in order to be able to drive everyday because the testers could not rev the generator up to 2k RPM in Park as required for the test (a GM imposed limit that can’t be modified). It was only by the good graces of the test site director and the fact that the emissions testing administration was just then changing locations and wasn’t easily contacted that we got an extra eight days added to the 14 days for which we could get a tourist permit to use our car daily (otherwise we could not drive between 5am and 11am except on Sundays and not at all on Thursdays and Saturdays based on the last digit on our license plate). IIRC, we only had one trip within the city that exceeded our battery’s limit. However we did travel outside the city several times and our battery was depleted before we returned to my wife’s family home in the city where we recharged on 110v. The ELR has about a 40 mile battery range. Now we are in McAllen, Texas visiting family and get ‘free’ (bootlegged 110v) charging at our motel. Very few motels have accessible 110v outlets so this one gets our business every year.

And one last thing; we would not easily be able to drive from McAllen to Mexico City with a stop to visit in-laws in Tampico (which is on the shortest route) with an EV because there are no public charging stations of any kind along the way including in Tampico which has a metro area population of over one million people.