Tesla Charging at the diner

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They really need Optimus to go around unplugging cars and sending them to park elsewhere

They should have Optimus unplug the car when it is done charging and have the car move itself to a parking spot.

Perfect use of «Banish»

Charged there this morning. Super effective and effortless.

Last time I rented Tesla to tour LA was a big mistake. Could never find charging space, huge lines, fights and the fees. Decided to never rent a Tesla again. My best use case of Tesla is home charging and back to home.

I drove there yesterday from San Diego county with my son and arrived with 38% from a 100% battery. When I started charging it said an hour to get to 100%, which quickly went by fast by ordering food and waiting, eating in the diner, then waiting in line for popcorn and merch purchases, and going to the restroom. I went back to my car with 1 minute left. It was a fun experience but felt rushed because I kept checking the time. We’ll definitely go back when it’s less busy.

Any electric car without home charging seems like signing up for a lifestyle of frustration

Sounds like they have 35min grace period though?

last time I was in LA I rented a tesla, and the charging was seamless. never had any issues

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Are there non charging spots you can move to?

It's to allow people enough time to finish eating.

By charge and park do they mean no idle fees if it's not busy???

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Nowhere else to park easily. Moving the car could be a 15 minutes ordeal trying to find street parking.

That’s assuming you aren’t by yourself. If you’re by yourself, you can’t save your seat.

I didn't know that yesterday, there was no info about that that I saw. That tweet saying the 35 min grace period was posted today.

I don't think so. I parked right up against the diner. There are 80 chargers total, with most of them being in the back section away from the diner, I didn't see that area. That area doesn't get a view of the diner and the movie screens.

What are congestion fees like at other superchargers now? Do they only apply when the stalls are getting full, or whenever you're done charging even if you're the only car there?

Exactly what I was thinking

They might be updating on the fly lol. Def jealous though missed it bt a week, was in LA for vaca mid July

Could you see this diner concept working out well (even better) in less congested places? Like large suburban areas?

Have Optimus drive the car into a parking spot

If people need to get up in the middle of their meal, then a diner business model is not going to work.

There is literally plenty around. Did you even look?

Probably but wherever I ended up on the route, was a long queue most of the times. Time crunch on a trip doesn’t help either. Probably better today, this was my 2021 visit I think. What bothered me the most was folks fighting who’s turn it was bcz there were scattered waiting for their. This is still the case today in open areas where you just don’t whose turn it is.

ITs literally in the name my friend.

Were you the dude in the news they interviewed who drove up from SD?!

This dude is brilliant.

No, no one interviewed me. I was there yesterday around 12:30pm. Cool to know I wasn't the only one that made the hike from San Diego.

I hope Florida gets one. Orlando and Tampa would be perfect

Try reading the rest of his comment….

It seems to vary based on a few posts I’ve come across on Reddit. In my own experience recently it told me the congestion fee may apply but they didn’t since only a few cars were charging out of 8.

All the parking spaces are charging spaces. They are planning on having optimus take your food to your car.

It’s congestion charge. Meaning only when it’s packed. It’s in the name.

You drove to hollywood from San Diego for this? … as someone that lives 3 blocks away and hasnt gone to check it out… this sounds nuts! Lol

Did you know about, (and would you have used) the option of per-ordering from the app before you got there?

Yes I did know about pre-ordering, in fact when you have the diner as a destination, when you get a few miles away your Tesla has a notification asking you if you want to order ahead before arrival. I chose not to because I knew it would be busy and had no Idea how long the wait to park would be. The diner backs up to a residential neighborhood which makes parking outside of the diner a nightmare. If this was years into the future and the diner wasn't so busy like it is now, I probably would have ordered ahead. For the majority of the drive, my Tesla kept saying 60 out of 80 spots available. It wasn't until I was getting off the 101 freeway that it changed to something more realistic like 8 out of 80 chargers available.

Same here last Sunday family in the hospital in San Diego came back up Tuesday keep checking . But I do have to go back for the funeral now. So God and bad

My kid and I are on summer break so it was a spontaneous trip. Waking up and not knowing what you're going to do for the day is invigorating!

That it is! Thanks for not taking the message with ill intent. Realized after that it could have been taken that way but if you live i socal, you know the traffic and the root of the comment. Enjoy the rest of the break! Take him to Palomar and Mount Wilson! And go see the new George Lucas Museum building opening next year. Its a spaceship!

Went there last night at 9 PM with 20%, took almost forty minutes to just a charger and then the car kept glitching and wouldn’t let me order - managed to cut the entire line with a screenshot of my glitch and order right away and took over an hour for my burger to arrive at which point my car was already full. They will need that grace period for sure if not longer for sure!

The LOL at the end saved you haha. It's hard to convey emotion over text, I get it. As for the traffic, I'm originally from L.A. so I knew exactly what were where getting into driving up there.

I am gonna give it another month before visiting. There's too many people trying to flood in for hype and traveling to see it. Also, all the people here commenting "Optimus should do X" is really funny. They can't do anything seriously useful with Optimus, let alone have it walk around where there are people and vehicles. If it falls on a person or a car, it's gonna just be horrible optics for years.

Optimus can barely fill popcorn right now much less unplug a car without damaging the port.

Others have posted evidence, though, that the idle rate was $0.00 per minute. Before this new 35-minute policy, it was effectively no idle fees/limits whatsoever.

Hopefully soon!

35 min is very generous

The problem with supercharging is it's sometimes too fast. Maybe a long freeways they should be the fastest, but inside cities they are already too fast.

Epic Bacon At The Tesla Diner

Anyone been to the diner during midnight hours?