[QUOTE=earl pottinger;18575187]So I assume he is now looking for another job since his station is going EV.
Also points out the manager of a branch of a company does NOT always know what their company's long term plans can be.[/QUOTE
]
His company is not going EV. There’s a whole lot more ICE than EV.

 

[QUOTE=Dr. G7;18575515]Yes, I remember in the early 1980's when I was told home microcomputers was a passing fad and never would affect the jobs of programmers for mainframes. This was repeatedly told to me by expert mainframe programmers.

I remember in the 1990's when I went to the printing conferences (by the way, Hell make a hell of a printing machine) and I was told just because laser printers were now upgrading from 300-600 DPI than no-one was going to do all their printing in-house. Told to me when there were over a dozen print shops in my town, Today there is only one.

I remember in the 2000's when I was when I was told, digital cameras would never replace film cameras. Today I see all the shelves of the photo companies full of digital cameras and the few film camera that still are for sales I could buy a cheap car for the same money.

I remember in the 2010's when I was told 3D printers were a fad, and nobody but hobbyists would find any use for them. Today a number of companies use those same 3D printers to make very expensive parts.

Do you see a pattern?

 

Yes.

Just like this:

You Tube

(That ad has to set some sort of record for being hilariously funny at the time and then becoming even far more hilarious later on...)

 

In one of his last and admittedly long-winded blog posts, the late, great, Jack Rickard wrote this:

https://www.evtv.me/2019/08/10/the-t...whistleblower/

Yes, you'd think someone who made his fortune in the Publishing biz should have known how to split it into paragraphs. But that was his blogging style. If you want to skip some of the Tesla fanboi-ism, search for "Let’s take a look at the awl bidness".

(Wow - I hadn't looked at his evtv.me site in a while. Clearly showing signs of lack of attention these days.)

 

That’s one painful read. Best car ever made is a Tesla?
“I’ve never HEARD of anyone riding in a Tesla who did not immediately conclude that they wanted the car“

Hmmm

I’ve had extended drives in both the S and X. No thanks. Even if they gave me one. Answer is yet, no thanks.

 

He wrote it in 2019. The Taycan wasn't available at the time. And he made quite a bit of money with TSLA plays.

His points about the vested interests doing everything they can to delay the inevitable seem to be playing out.

 

For anyone in S. OC, the Irvine Spectrum EA location (8 stalls) is being updated to the latest hardware, its offline, looked like the chargers are all installed. The unit on the far left still has CHADEMO + the old style dispenser.

Oddly, the station shows in the porsche app as having stalls available.

 

So I'd had relatively good luck charging my Taycan at EA stations in Orange County. There is one EA station with 4 chargers that has 1-2 car waiting per charger and those chargers were charging at 60-70kW. The EA station one that I've gone to 4 times now has 3 chargers (only 2 work) and the wait is about 5-15 minutes and I get charging at 100-130kW (got 58kW in 30 minutes yesterday after my open house).

 

Please elucidate, "Orange County" as in NY, NC, VA, or TX. There may be others.

I'm in Peachtree County. No need to guess, Peachtree County, Georgia, USA.

 

Buccees in Houston getting Tesla super chargers faster than shipments of beaver nuggets.

 

Disagree with this completely. Check out the year end recap. It was ALL about electrification. The Macan EV, K1, Cayenne BEV, 718 EV, and hybrid 911

 

Orange County, CA....make specifically around Irvine, CA. I'll be driving out to Las Vegas, NV to see my dad for Easter next Thursday so I'll get a chance to check out the EA charging network off the 15 freeway and in Las Vegas.

 

Tell the story about you giving some idiot hell for charging to 100% :-)

 

Are they getting the Hybrid CCS docks, or only the prop Tesla one?

 

So far just the normal V3 supercharger, no magic dock. Those have been limited to CA and NY from what I have heard.