Cohousing-L Mailing List: Dead Tesla - recovery thru community

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Becca and I are back home in Minneapolis from the Cohousing Conference
in Madison. It was great as usual. 12 of us conference goers camped at
a county park group camp about 6 miles from the conference. Some of us
ate together twice and had a little community tho the conference kept us
quite busy. We got to the conference thru a combination of carpooling
and I biked 2 days.

Camping went pretty well (there was some rain).
I had very little Internet access while there **.  I see there was
a message from Alan O'Hashi on cohousing-L related to sales of his
books.  (They were available at the ic.org book table.) One of his
books is about his expericence driving his electric vehicle 2500 miles
around Wyoming. See:
https://bouldercomedia.com/2022/07/08/on-the-trail-wyoming-electrical-vehicle-adventures-book-now-available/

Alan, you may heve not heard the EV related story at the camp tho we
told it many times.  So I will relate it here for you and others may
appreciated it.

Dave Blackmore from Altair EcoVillage (forming in Pennsylvania) drove
his Tesla madel S electric vehicle to the conference with one other
person. They arrived about 10 pm Wed. at the group camp after we were in
bed. The next morning when I met Dave he told me about his problem.

When the arrived he had 12 miles worth of charge in the car's battery
which he thought would be enough to get to a charger the next day.
But over night that charge was used up and the car would not go anywhere.

The group camp is about .8 mile off the road - about half of it dirt
(and half on a paved bike path). AAA road service would not come out
there. I had biked to the main camp ground (showers etc) a mile away
and knew there was a car charging station there.  The park is all
solar. We ended up towing the Tesla with Becca's Prius to the main
campground to the charger there. I'd brought a 10 foot chain to lock
up bikes that worked well for towing.

Fred

** A couple cohousing-L posts were held a few days for approval which
happened after we got back.  Sorry about that.

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Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
     Email:        fholson at cohousing.org      612-588-9532
My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org