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Supercharger - Branson, MO (speculation)
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Branson has been on and off the "coming soon" list for at least 6 or 7 years. Something tells me it's going to go slowly as it has been.
If it's anything like the recent Conway AR supercharger.
Permit Approved: 11/06/2023
Construction Started: ~12/15/2023
Finalized and open: 02/16/2024
They did seemingly have some problems during the install process for Conway though. Led to a bunch of work after everything looked done.
I hope so, but Elektrek reported today that several SC location leases in NYC were canceled, so fingers crossed.
Well, this isn’t encouraging:
“At this time, please hold on breaking ground on any newly awarded construction projects and planned pre-construction walks.”
“At this time, please hold on breaking ground on any newly awarded construction projects and planned pre-construction walks.”
I'm an optimist. Elon said Tesla is going to spend $500 million on new superchargers this year. I'm hopeful it'll get rolling when the supercharger team is re-formed (they've already started hiring back some of the team that was laid off).
No signs of construction on June 7. I drove the perimeter of the large parking lot Target shares with Home Depot and did not see any activity along the perimeter or center of the parking lot.
Tesla partnered with Target in 2020 to install Superchargers at 40+ Target stores. Assuming this site is an expansion of the existing partnership, I would guess that the Superchargers will be installed in the middle of an existing row of parking spots on the south/southwest end of the Target lot or along the southwest edge of the Target lot (marked in red on Google map below). This would keep the chargers out of the high-traffic parking areas where they are more likely to be ICE'd. I would be shocked if chargers were installed in the Home Depot lot based on partnership and based on the Branson permit address. FYI for anyone else monitoring progress.
Electric distribution seemed to be underground throughout this area. I couldn't find any distribution maps, but I would guess that the lines run along Branson Hills Parkway.
Tesla partnered with Target in 2020 to install Superchargers at 40+ Target stores. Assuming this site is an expansion of the existing partnership, I would guess that the Superchargers will be installed in the middle of an existing row of parking spots on the south/southwest end of the Target lot or along the southwest edge of the Target lot (marked in red on Google map below). This would keep the chargers out of the high-traffic parking areas where they are more likely to be ICE'd. I would be shocked if chargers were installed in the Home Depot lot based on partnership and based on the Branson permit address. FYI for anyone else monitoring progress.
Electric distribution seemed to be underground throughout this area. I couldn't find any distribution maps, but I would guess that the lines run along Branson Hills Parkway.
I'm guessing the recent upheaval of the supercharger team has put this site on hold, especially since construction hasn't started. Pity.
This site should ha
This is the #1 North America voted location, I really doubt Tesla would ignore that.
There's no one left at Tesla to pay attention to this site. Elon laid off the entire supercharger team. All 500 of them.
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There is a two-stall 120kW Francis Energy CCS site near where this Supercharger will be built. You will need a CCS compatible car with a CCS adapter to use it.
It's an SK Signet unit with passively cooled cables, so its pretty reliable. I think Francis should replace all their existing BTC chargers with these units (with NACS). It would help their reputation quite a bit.
As an aside, with the rehiring of former staff, I now believe there's a good chance this Supercharger will still get installed. It's just probably delayed.
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