Eliminating the charge port halo light was a bad call

[SactownD]

Seems like they should have kept the light but gotten rid of the automatic charge port door.

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[Hopper]

This is in my driveway where I have bright LED's behind me but even so the light from the front light bar and stadium lights ends up casting shadows in the charge port making it tricky to align a charging cable. This probably goes away with a NACS port, but is an unexpected PITA.

Couldn’t agree more.

 

[carsly]

It has that already though, you can see the light coming from above the locking pin in your video

need more lumens. it gets overwhelmed by the front light bar and stadium lights which are so bright that they cast shadows in the charge port negating the value of the tiny light.

 

[Matchbox]

When in the garage, the light bar is so bright I cannot see anything in that area to plug into. Can get on my knees and shade the light. But starting to get used to plugging in blind.

 

[malditofman]

This is in my driveway where I have bright LED's behind me but even so the light from the front light bar and stadium lights ends up casting shadows in the charge port making it tricky to align a charging cable. This probably goes away with a NACS port, but is an unexpected PITA.

Not a problem in my world. Drive well.

 

[Jccoryell]

I installed my own on my Bolt and Volt. $25 worth of LED strip lights and wiring

 

[OUTAGAS]

The halo itself is too bright and distracting as it points no light to the receptacle. The best design would be to remove the pigment from the plastic the receptacle is made of. The receptacle would be translucent and a single LED behind it would make it glow.

 

[carsly]

The halo itself is too bright and distracting as it points no light to the receptacle. The best design would be to remove the pigment from the plastic the receptacle is made of. The receptacle would be translucent and a single LED behind it would make it glow.

oooohhh! Now we're talking!

 

[BCondrey]

Wait what you have an eject button? Gen 2 envy.

 

[TM1]

Totally agree!!!

 

[rjcarlson49]

This is in my driveway where I have bright LED's behind me but even so the light from the front light bar and stadium lights ends up casting shadows in the charge port making it tricky to align a charging cable. This probably goes away with a NACS port, but is an unexpected PITA.

Yup, absolutely a problem.

 

[theonetruestripes]

When the switch to NACS happens, this will be a non-issue due to the self aligning nature of the design, but yeah, J1772 can be tricky in low light with the current Gen2 design.

J1772 is mostly ok...but J1772-CCS seems to be a real issue.

Or maybe it is the thick cables. I did a long trip Thursday and stopped at a RAN and multiple Tesla Magic Dock Superchargers, plus a EA charger. The EA and RAN were a pain to line up the plug in the socket, the Tesla ones seemed a whole lot easier, and I seem to recall thinner cables. Maybe the cable is the root of all the issues...

Then again RAN was 300kW and EA was 350kW I think the tesla SC was lower, then again my R1S tops out at ~210kW so it isn’t like I get anything out of the extra power (unless it is reduced due to sharing, in which case I have more headroom not to notice...)

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