Man purchases used Tesla unknowingly banned from all Supercharger stations

nypost.com ^ | Oct. 7, 2025 | Caitlin McCormack

[cableguymn]

Then tesla is just being dicks. (normal for them)

[citizen]

My cars and trucks have never been locked out of the gas pumps.

[citizen]

since I didn't notice it for over a minute, it had initiated a call for emergency services

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At your unnecessary expense.

[ETCM]

I was able to cancel the call, so there was no response. I’m not sure there would be a response, other than maybe someone calling to check on me. I also set it off once chopping wood, but I noticed it right away. It must be pretty common.

[Damifino]

Thank you! I live between the Keys and Western NY. I think I’d be a good use-case for it. We are not in NY in the Winter so that’s good, BUT have a condo in the Keys that does not have a charging option. There are Tesla chargers within a half a mile tho. Very low usage there too.

[Tell It Right]

There are Tesla chargers within a half a mile tho. Very low usage there too.

I wouldn't get an EV if half of your charging is at a fast charger. That supposedly adds wear on the battery if level 3 fast charging is done most of the time.

You can always charge it with a standard 120V outlet. It's slow, but it may be enough to do most of your charging for local driving. Mine (not a Tesla) charges at a rate of about 4.3 miles per hour charged when I charge it at Level 1 (120V outlet), after accounting for about 20% loss converting AC to DC while charging (charging slower increases the conversion loss). So if you're out for about 6 hours on average and have it at home on average for 18 hours charging, that's 18 hours X 4 miles/hour = 72 miles per day. If most of your driving is less than 72 miles per day (or however long you have it charging at home per day), then it'd be worth considering.

What about the days of every now and then excessive local driving? (Like if you have family flying in and want to take them all around town.) If you charge it to 80% and get 230 miles range like I do (local driving), then that means you'd have to experience multiple days in a row of more than 72 miles of driving before you give up on charging at home and have to charge it at the nearby level 3 fast charger. That's okay if it's every now and then.

As far as using it for long trips between Florida and NY (not being up north during the winter), I've made a similar trip multiple times in my EV. From Alabama to western Massachusetts and Albany, NY. And from there up through eastern Maine into New Brunswick. Maine and NB are sparsely populated and require an extra amount of planning for chargers. The rest of the trip is easy-breezy and can be mapped in 15 minutes with an EV forum app like Plugshare. It has a trip planning tool with a GPS-style "enter start destination and end destination" map tool like every other GPS app. After you enter in your settings the types of chargers your EV can use, and set the filters to show you only the chargers that charge at least X fast (I usually set it to 200kW or higher), it'll show the chargers on that route. You can click on each one and read the user comments (i.e. "fast charging experience, but no lighting to be safe for night", or "max speed of 200kW instead of the 350kW as advertised, but had clean restrooms and good bite to eat at 8PM", etc.) And add whichever chargers to your saved route (I always have backup options).

IMHO it's similar to how we used to map a trip before GPS and spent about 15-30 minutes of our time days before with paper maps.

But even if all that sounds good for you, I wouldn't get an EV as an only car. Get an EV as one of two cars if you need two cars anyway. That's how my wife and I use ours. And we no longer say "her car" and "his truck". It's "the EV" and "the truck" with the idea that we share the EV as our main car to limit having to drive the gas truck and buy gas. So if only one of us goes for a drive, he/she takes the EV (unless it involves pickup chores). Or if both of us drive the cars in separate destinations, the one who drives the most that day takes the EV.

That's why the EV has 80K miles on it even though we've had it only 3 years and 3 months.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Nope

[EVO X]

My brother gave my elderly dad his Apple watch when he upgraded. After a couple of weeks he stoped using it when it said he was going fall sometime within a year. We reset it and gave it to my nephew.

[ETCM]

Yeah, some of the health tracking is a little creepy. Eventually it will be the norm, with many people having embedded devices that feed data to their doctor. AI will be a far better doctor than humans.