[KElkhorn]

Still a few months from delivery. Wondering what is the process of installing the Charge Station Pro Charger. Do I get it with the car? Can I use my electrician that installed my Tesla Charger to do the same? he only charged like $400 for installation before. Why spend more with Ford recommended installer. My car will be parked right next to my electrical box. Charging port will be within 6 feet from the electrical box

They won't ship it to you until you have completed the sale. You can buy one from Ford/Ebay ahead of time, and then sell yours when it shows up if you want to deal with all of that. Your electrician can certainly install this, the big challenge is that this is an 80 Amp charger, requiring a 100 Amp breaker, you may or may not be able to support this in your current panel, but your electrician will be able to tell you. You can always install with a lower capacity breaker and de-rate the charge station pro. You can also just get a Tesla Tap and use your Tesla Charger and not worry about any of it.

Unless you are driving 150 plus miles/day, you will rarely need the full 80 amp charger, and would be just fine with significantly less.

 

[KElkhorn]

I have one but am not using one personally, I believe others are. The TeslaTap Mini or Mini Lightning version seems to be pretty popular. Depending on how long you have it parked overnight, and the size of your Tesla charger, you should be fine.
You typically don't want to let your battery get below 15-20% or so if you can avoid it, obviously you may have times where you have to. You also typically won't want to charge much over 90% unless you are going on a longer trip.
This leaves you with 70% capacity to potentially charge on a regular basis, or 90 kWh on an ER or 70 kWh on an SR.

If you have the 80 Amp 240 Volt Charge station pro, (19.2kW), this is ~5 hours on ER and ~4 hours for SR.

If you had a 40 Amp 240 Volt charger (9.6 kW) this is ~9.5 hours for ER or ~7.5 for SR.

Most folks are getting around 1.5 miles/kWh or better in the winter, which would be 135 miles on ER or 105 miles on SR.

So if you have an ER and drive 135 miles a day, and can plug in for at least 10 hours each night, the 40 amp would do just fine.

Tesla Tap:

TeslaTap MINI 80 AMP

www.umc-j1772.com

Note they also have a "Lightning Specific" one. I'd get the 80 amp/20 kW in any event, as you can also then use it on Tesla destination chargers (not superchargers).

 

[KElkhorn]

Interesting.. Makes me wonder if it is even worth installing charge Station Pro when there is an adapter available for $300. Save me installation cost I have a home generator, so I do not need that aspect of install either.

I'd get the adapter either way, for the above mentioned destination charger benefits. Charge station probably won't show up for a month anyway, you'd have a few weeks to see how that set-up worked out for you, and then decide.