This Week In Tesla - Tesla Sentry Mode Helps Solve Hit and Run, NJ Turnpike to Become More Electrified

Tesla Sentry Mode Helps Solve Hit and Run

A few weeks ago in Lakewood, a small suburb of Denver, a couple happened to park their car next to a Tesla Model 3 before going into a restaurant for dinner. When they came back, the Model 3 was still parked next to their car, yet they were shocked to find the front corner of their own car had been brutally smashed - damaged worth what would turn out to be $2,000.

Fortunately, with the help of the Tesla owner who had their car parked next to the incident, they were able to see the footage of what happened via Sentry Mode and were even able to see the license plate of the perpetrating car. The video below from CBS News Denver illustrates how the help from the Tesla’s cameras will help a family save thousands of dollars.

NJ Turnpike to Become More Electrified

Many Tesla-owning New Yorkers know that it is not a very hard trip to make if one needs to travel on the New Jersey Turnpike, as there are supercharging options spread out along the route. In recent years however, with the introduction of the Model 3 and Teslas becoming much more popular in general, the measly four stalls at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area and Molly Pitcher Service Area, respectively, have become too few. Also, the Robbinsville and Cranbury Superchargers require you to exit the highway.

To ease all of these issues, Tesla has partnered with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) to install more, faster chargers for the growing number of Tri-State Teslas. With the Molly Pitcher and Joyce Kilmer Service areas only having four stalls each, equating to a total of eight chargers on the entire Turnpike, the new deal states that there will be a total of sixty four(!) Supercharger stalls on the Turnpike after Tesla holds up their end of the deal.

On top of adding four new V3 Supercharger stalls to the East Brunswick and Cranbury locations and changing the previous V2 chargers to V3, Tesla will install eight new V3 charging stalls at each of the following locations:

• Clara Barton (southbound between interchanges 2 and 1)
• John Fenwick (northbound between interchanges 1 and 2)
• Walt Whitman (southbound between interchanges 4 and 3)
• James Fenimore Cooper (northbound between interchanges 4 and 5)
• Richard Stockton (southbound between interchanges 7A and 7)
• Woodrow Wilson (northbound between interchanges 7 and 7A)

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