Tesla will be building a 12 stall supercharger at the Fairfield Inn with an address of 2 Cummings Rd, Scarborough, ME 04074. The project came before the planning board and was approved October 10, 2023.
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Supercharger - Scarborough, ME
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Under construction, courtesy of a few photos shared on the Tesla Owners - Maine facebook page today.
The ground will defrost soon, and it will be much easier to do the work. I suspect this will be in the ground, waiting for a transformer before the end of June.
Thanks for tracking this and taking the pictures.
You can see in the background in the first of your photos that there is still an empty pad where a transformer will go.
Transformers are there today (Memorial Day), but looks like some heavy-duty wiring is pending. Those parking spaces are all filled up with random ICE cars. The Fairfield Inn has limited real estate, and parking is not plentiful. There is adequate parking around back, but that is not evident to new visitors, who see only the front-side parking. The new row of chargers takes a notable chunk out of their available paved area. I predict long-term issues here. I don't know how that will be policed. I suspect the Inn personnel are not eager to get into it.
It is not so easy for an out-of-towner to find and is only partly visible from the street. Sharp turn-in is required near a busy intersection, and coming from the Turnpike or from I-295, you wil l have to make a sharp left turn across three lanes. If you miss it, just keep going to Target driveway, and turn around. It is much easier to enter from the north.
I was hoping for MagicDock, for my EV owner friends. But no. Standard V3 chargers.
It looks like all the "heavy lifting" has been done. Encouraging to see this progress, now that the supercharger team has been gutted.
It’s possible it could get MagicDock - I think that has typically been retrofitted by Tesla for most sites that have it.
NEVI will add 2 sites in Portland, and there's an ElectrifyAmerica at the Scarborough Walmart. Everybody else will be well covered.d
Not much point in adding new Magic Dock in such an isolated hotel location with the NACS changeover coming.
N1 is a future NEVI that will replace the 1 50kW EVGo at the Hannaford with the V2 SC.
N2 is another future NEVI.
The marked EVGo location has 2 x 100kW and 1 x 350kW
The EA is the typical 2 x 150kW 2 x 350kW and the one next to it is a bogus entry.
The other unmarked are single and/or low power.
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