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Charging time

The Tesla page [1] says it needs approx. 4h with a 90A(!) breaker, not 3,5 (and now assume the Tesla numbers are even a bit more positive). The "High Power Connector" (which is named Home Connector) must be installed by a professional electrician, it might be interesting to point out also the others possibilities. Suggestion (i'm not a native speaker, so i will not change the article directly):

"A full recharge takes approx. 4 hours using the (high power) Home Connector connected to a 90A breaker rating at 240 volt. The Home Connector must be installed by a professional electrician, but there are charging solutions for standard outlets available. The charging time with these vary from 6 hours (50A breaker (NEMA 14-50 connector) to 30 hours with a standard 15A wall outlet." source: http://www.teslamotors.com/electric/charging.php

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.217.125.189 (talk • contribs) 01:16, 26 April 2010

Roadster 2

Should it get it's own section or be in the history? L3X1 (distænt write) 05:49, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Everyone is free to edit as they wish, but it is not beneficial to keep cranking out more Tesla content. Nearly ever electric car related article is a bloated dumpster fire that's going to take ages to clean up. But the first rule of holes is to stop digging. Stop making it worse and help clean up all the cruft and the redundancy. Take a look at what a FA or GA car article looks like, and write with that kind of target in mind.

First and foremost, stop writing electric car articles with the prospective car buyer in mind as your #1 reader. All this comparison shopping content has to go. I don't think any one editor is to blame, but there is a collective slide away from encyclopedic content in all of these EV articles. We have conventional cars that have been in production for 25, 30, even 40 years, and the article about them is not 6,000+ words. But consider: the article on the Chevrolet Corvette does not explain what an internal combustion engine is, or what gasoline is, or why the Corvette has a speedometer. These topics are covered elsewhere, yet every EV article feels like they have to deliver a mini-dissertation on each sub-system of the car.

So sure, if you want to create a new section and write even more about another model, do as you wish. All I'm saying is it's not making Wikipedia better. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 06:35, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sekundid. Greglocock (talk) 06:47, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It should be a new article. Roadster 1 and Roadster 2 are different vehicles, same as other car articles have different articles for different platforms with the same name. An overview article about the brandname "Roadster" with subarticles about the Roadster 1 and Roadster 2. I have a draft up at Draft:Tesla Roadster 2 -- 70.51.45.76 (talk) 09:09, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks IP. L3X1 (distænt write) 13:45, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with Dennis Bratland, we should focus on making good quality encyclopedic articles and finally "normalize" electric cars. --Ita140188 (talk) 08:42, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There has always been a standard procedure on Wikipedia to have one main article for the model and then other split articles and subsections for later generations. One example is the Toyota Camry, where you have a main article that includes all the different generations and a split article being linked at each generation. So Tesla Roadster should be one article containing both the first and second generation Roadsters, with a split for each generation if desired. Beatitudinem (talk) 23:57, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress

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