Surprise install

I was at GNP last summer and stayed at the Sky Eco cabins in Coram (30 min closer to the park). Free Tesla chargers for guests.
Also, you can reserve a charger on line and they are very friendly to EV owners.

Tesla chargers | SKY ECO RENTALS - Glacier National Park

Mike

 

that's cool, we need more of that.

 

A bank of ten new Tesla Superchargers went into service not far from me last month, after significant delays. Instead of the style you show, these still have the familiar hole-in-the-center style.

Trying to refill my PHEV midday, I'm getting mixed results. A majority of place still have nothing, and among those with J1772 outlets, similar numbers of places open vs busy.

Among RV parks used for bike event support, for EVs bringing their own L2 EVSEs for 50-amp RV outlets, Winthrop was very accommodating and friendly, Chelan and Ft Flagger State Park completely non-accommodating. I'll be looking to increase my sample size.

 

Completely unrelated to this thread ...

When I looked at the same map section you displayed above, it highlighted a completely different selection of businesses. Is "the algorithm" profiling map users and choosing which businesses to highlight / advertise to each individual user, just as web portal and social media news feeds are individually customized?

I've been bypassing web portals and staying away from the usual major social media, but it seems this nano-profiling and -targeting runs much deeper.

 

Typo, too late to edit. That was the campground at Fort Flagler State Park, across the bay from Port Townsend, in my state.

 

You better believe it. I believe it 100% due to a recent event that opened my eyes. I have an iphone issued to me by my company. I have it in my pocket or within arms reach 24/7, so I have no need for a personal cellphone. I have a laptop issued to me by my company. I have a personal laptop at home. They don't mix, ever.

A handful of months ago, I was in a control room at work familiarizing one of our new managers with his responsibilities. We got on the topic of a cooling system for some of our electronics that uses a specialized fan and I was explaining I had purchased a spare and it was in his office. When I got home later that night and logged into my PERSONAL laptop, ads populated on the screen for that specific fan. You want to know what all these data centers are being built for? This is one of the reasons. Billions of people, having every minute of their every day lives recorded and saved, by any device with listening or viewing capability. The world is crazy. The machines really are listening, lol. All those people with tinfoil hats were right.

 

No audio or video snooping is needed to put all this together. In addition to all the usual internet device IDs, every device that communicates by cellular radio, wifi, bluetooth, NFC, etc., has a unique identifier on each separate radio's physical transceiver circuit. So in theory, once they associate or correlate any of these IDs with any other ID already connected to an individual, they can track people's activity and location by any one of those radio systems, whenever your device steps within range of any of those systems that participate in any given "big data" collection network. No messaging activity even needed on your part, the business's wifi or Bluetooth or whatever only needs to identify your device within their signaling territory, and report it up to its "cloud(s)".

Originally, we would have been somewhat protected by lack of widespread "big data" collection and processing. That is probably long past. The business and intelligence values to collating it all is huge, much too large for some enterprising folks to pass up.

Real world example: This is also likely how Israel identified the homes of so many Hamas members in Gaza, bombing or shelling most of them at night. Put together with "big data" AI and typically given about only 20 seconds of human review per target. (They did use plenty of facial recognition too, of undetermined accuracy.) Which is probably why Hezbollah in Lebanon then required all its member to give up their mobile phones, and use the pagers and other means instead. Even when those pagers exploded, they got a much smaller fraction of Hezbollah than of Hamas.

 

The new station near me was under construction and commissioning for many months. After foundation work, the EVSE stations and main utility box installed first, the utility's big station transformer installed last, the utility's energy meter dark another week, then lit and showing 00000 kWh. The next time I saw it, 7 Teslas were connected, with an 8th backing up to plug in.

It got busy real quick.

 

The voting for the next Supercharger locations has opened yesterday for Q4 2024. I was pleasantly surprised to see it's still ongoing with the canning of the Supercharger team last spring.