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Re:Tesla Model 3 Ramp Up Aims to Compete with BMW 3 and Merc... by mikeash on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @12:36PM (#13978091)
Good to hear! If anyone is curious what the situation looks like, PlugShare is a fun web site to play around with:

https://www.plugshare.com

It shows just about every publicly available charger, and many private ones as well. Each one has notes on what kind of charger it is, availability, cost, and user-submitted comments. It's really useful for EV owners, and interesting to poke around on even if you can't currently make use of them.

Re:Tesla Model 3 Ramp Up Aims to Compete with BMW 3 and Merc... by justin66 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:27PM (#13978609)
> It shows just about every publicly available charger

It doesn't show any of the publicly available chargers in the state of Ohio. I don't know how many there are - I've never needed to care - but I'm pretty sure that if the local Wal-Mart has a few (and the UU church!), there are others.

Re:Tesla Model 3 Ramp Up Aims to Compete with BMW 3 and Merc... by mikeash on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:54PM (#13978881)
Do you mean it doesn't show anything anywhere in Ohio? Something must be broken for you, then, because it shows me plenty.

Are you just looking at it zoomed out really far? It only shows a selection of chargers until you zoom in, otherwise the whole thing would just be a sea of icons.

Re:Tesla Model 3 Ramp Up Aims to Compete with BMW 3 and Merc... by justin66 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @04:51PM (#13980566)
Yeah, it was the default level of zoom. Thanks.
Re:Tesla Model 3 Ramp Up Aims to Compete with BMW 3 and Merc... by mikeash on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:01PM (#13980662)
I can see how that would be confusing. They should probably show things a little more densely when zoomed out.
Re:Tesla Model 3 Ramp Up Aims to Compete with BMW 3 and Merc... by greglindahl on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @12:45PM (#13978183)
Yep. As an example, you can see that there are 137 chargers at the Facebook campus.
Re:Tesla Model 3 Ramp Up Aims to Compete with BMW 3 and Merc... by mikeash on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @12:54PM (#13978275)
Impressive! I've never seen anything like that, alas. Good to know it exists.

It might also be worth noting (to others reading the conversation, if there are any) that charging stations, while not cheap enough to just ignore, are pretty inexpensive to install. The main thing is getting power to the site. If power is already available, then it can be under $1,000 to put in a station (including buying the equipment), although of course there are many more expensive options if one wants.