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    Supercharger - Prairie Du Chien, WI

    Ah-ha-ha! Go to supercharger.info, click on the Charts tab, and scroll down to the bottom two charts. These show the length of time all the sites currently in Permitted and Construction phases have been in those states. There are some/several that have been under construction for over a year...
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    Supercharger - Maple Grove, MN

    The SLP charger is getting busy more frequently. I live about a half mile away and we do our shopping at the Target & Byerly's, so I get to scope it out regularly. Last week (Tuesday?) in the middle of the day it was full and there were two more Tesla's waiting for spots to open up. OTOH...
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    Supercharger - North Branch, MN

    The transformer is ordered by the local electric utility. In North Branch, that would be the North Branch Municipal Water & Light. In Bloomington, it would be Xcel. Perhaps NBMWL is just be more on top of things and ordered the transformer a while ago. The lead time for such things was...
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    Supercharger - Eagan, MN

    The State of Minnesota Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Plan was just released today. Based on public input, the focus will be on putting (more) chargers along I-35 and I-94, which struck me as odd since there are already several chargers along those roads, whereas there are lots of parts of...
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    Supercharger - Bloomington, MN

    A year or two ago I was talking with the city manager for St. Peter about the DCFCs that ZEF was going to be installing there. The installation had been delayed because the lead time on transformers had gone from 1-2 months to 6-9 months because of supply chain issues caused by Covid and it was...
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    Supercharger - Bloomington, MN

    Looks like the pedestals arrived today.
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    Supercharger - Cedar Rapids, IA

    There is a pair of 62kw L3 CCS/Chademo chargers in Ames at the Kum & Go. You'll need either Tesla's Chademo adapter or one of the third party CCS adapters to use them. (Tesla is supposedly bringing out a CCS adapter...someday.) I agree having some sort of L3 charger in Decorah would be nice...
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    Supercharger - Ellsworth, ME

    Was passing through Ellsworth yesterday so stopped to check the status. Not much change. There was a digger there that was tearing up the ground just east of the pedestals (it was lunch time and I assume the worker was off eating somewhere).
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    Supercharger - Bemidji, MN

    I think a week is optimistic, though I would love it if you were correct. Is the meter installed?
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    Supercharger - Marquette, MI

    About a year ago I was talking to a fellow from one of the electric coops in MN. He said the lead time on transformers had gotten much worse because of Covid, and speculated that several of the DC fast chargers slated to be installed in MN would be delayed until the spring of 2021 as a result...
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    Supercharger - Escanaba, MI

    The catch is that construction, once it starts, usually goes fairly quickly, often just a few weeks. But then it is not uncommon for everything to sit there not powered up because the local power utility has to actually provide the power, inspect the site, and sign off on the installation...
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    Supercharger - Mt. Pleasant, IA

    You'll have to provide a citation to support your assertion that "most people who sit at local ones...have free supercharging". The use cases for SCs are myriad. There's a SC near my house; I never use it even though I have free SC'ing for life because charging at home is more convenient. I...
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    Supercharger - Waterloo, IA

    Get Tesla's Chademo adapter ($450). There are third party DC fast chargers in Ft. Dodge and Early (plus Emmetsburg and Sheldon). They're not as fast as SuperChargers, but plenty fast enough to make getting from Waterloo to Sioux Falls stress free.
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    Supercharger - Waterloo, IA

    Yes, I do wish they had put it on the other side of the west entrance. That parking area only gets used at Xmas time, there's no traffic going through that area normally, etc. Probably would have been more expensive though because they would have had to run power lines under the driveway.
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    Supercharger - Waterloo, IA

    Hmm. So, are the chargers to be angled? (i.e., rather than perpendicular to the traffic flow). That means to back into a charging spot, one will have to drive the wrong way down the row. Hope there isn't too much traffic on that row or it could be frustrating. At the SC in St. Louis Park, MN...
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    Supercharger - Waterloo, IA

    There are a couple of DCFCs in Fort Dodge, and one in Early. The one in Early and one of the Ft. Dodge chargers go up to 150kw according to PlugShare, but I believe Tesla limits the charge rate on non-SuperCharger chargers to 50kw. It's only 213 miles from Waterloo to Sioux City, so you...
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    Supercharger - Waterloo, IA

    All the above. And unfortunately, construction finishing isn't much of an indicator of how soon the charger will go live. Much depends on the local electric utility delivering a transformer and getting that hooked up--and that can take weeks or months. Mind you, construction beginning is a...
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    Supercharger - Escanaba, MI

    I'll take a 62.5kw DCFC (or a pair) in Gladstone. While power utilities are usually a bit better about keeping their chargers in working order, redundancy in the area would be good. Part of the reason Tesla's SCs are considered more reliable is they always install several, such that if one or...
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    Supercharger - Escanaba, MI

    FYI, the 62kw DCFC in Norway, MI is up and running now, for those who have a Chademo adapter.
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    Supercharger - Escanaba, MI

    How sad it's only an L2 charger. I hate to rain on their parade, but if they're installing it in hopes of getting people to stop and charge in town, an L2 really doesn't cut it. Especially if there's a campground nearby with NEMA 1450 outlets, which it sounds like there is. Wonder where they...
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    Supercharger - Escanaba, MI

    BTW, someone has posted a picture showing construction has begun for the DCFC in Norway. PlugShare - Find Electric Vehicle Charging Locations Near You
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    Supercharger - Escanaba, MI

    Just to add to what @Big Earl said, there are often a whole bunch of parties involved in building a SC that we never see. For instance, Meijer may or may not own the land the store is on. Here in Minneapolis, home of Target headquarters, some Target stores are on property owned by Target, some...
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    Supercharger - Minneapolis, MN

    Cool! You have a Delorean! So, um, does it get up to 88mph? Asking for a friend.
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    Supercharger - Escanaba, MI

    It seems curious that Norway, pop. 2845, is slated for a DCFC, but Escanaba, pop. 12,616 is not (2010 numbers). OTOH, perhaps Norway requested it, has people who are working to make it happen, and Escanaba did not and does not. Why do we think the DCFC will be CCS only? Is there some...
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    Supercharger - Minnetonka, MN

    Stopped by today just to have a look. No change, as expected. But there were several large dump trucks in the parking lot, and it appeared they're gearing up to remove the old asphalt and presumably replace it with new. Hope that doesn't cause any delays.
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    Supercharger - St. Louis Park, MN

    Yes, I've had the same thought. It would have been better if they could have put them, say 50 meters SE at the back of the parking lot along Park Center Blvd. Would have been out of the way of the Target traffic. But perhaps there wasn't enough land there to place the cabinets and other...
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    Supercharger - Emporia, KS

    Plugshare's policy is that only Tesla is allowed to add SuperChargers to the Plugshare map.
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    Supercharger - St. Louis Park, MN

    It's a smaller Target so they tend to be out of things more than other Targets. It's close to my house so it's the one we use, but my wife has observed many times over the years that the selection at this Target is smaller than at others. Lately, we've been using their curbside delivery...
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    Supercharger - St. Louis Park, MN

    Perhaps Tesla is paying for the SC electricity and Target is paying for the ChargePoint electricity.
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    Supercharger - St. Louis Park, MN

    I think the real question is why are there two meters?
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    Supercharger - St. Louis Park, MN

    We appreciate the non-update update. Yes, we are anxious for this to open.
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    Supercharger - St. Louis Park, MN

    Not necessarily. There are a zillion variables that influence when a SC gets built, at what speed, etc. One factor is the property leasing arrangement. Every one of those must be negotiated, and it may be that Target doesn't even own the property, they may just lease it from someone else...
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    Supercharger - Minnetonka, MN

    At least there's a Chademo charger, soon to be two, in the Mankato area. Perhaps the thing to do would be to the manager at the Hy Vee just off highways 14 & 22, suggesting the inquire with Hy Vee headquarters about inquiring with Tesla about installing a SC.
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    Supercharger - St. Louis Park, MN

    No, no idea. Tesla doesn't say anything about when SCs will open; they just appear as such on the Find Us page on their website and on the Navigation system in the cars. Considering the pedestals aren't yet installed, I'd say it's going to be at least a month or two. But even that's just...
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    Supercharger - Skowhegan, ME

    Rochester, NH is open now according to supercharge.info. Can someone local check if there is any progress in Skowhegan?
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    SuperCharger - North Bay, ON

    I use the app, and it just bills my credit card. I did not have to put any money into an account beforehand (which I would not have done because I dislike those kind of systems). I think I tried to order the access card, but they wouldn't send it to the US. In the US, many third party...
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    SuperCharger - North Bay, ON

    Try the Circuit Electrique in Ville-Marie or any others around that area. This past October, my Chademo adapter wouldn't work at any of the myEVRoute chargers (e.g., TH in North Bay, ScotiaBank in Spanish, etc., and many other people are reporting similar problems). But the Circuit Electrique...
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    SuperCharger - North Bay, ON

    I've had great success with the Circuit Electrique chargers in eastern Quebec. If I could cross over to QC at Mattawa and avoid all the unreliable KSI chargers in ON, I'd have done so in a heartbeat on my trips to Montreal. Unfortunately, Circuit Electrique doesn't really have any chargers...
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    Superchargers in Iceland

    Hurray, it's a start. I agree that Reykjavik is the last place in Iceland that needs a SC. Are the 50kw DCFCs strewn around the ring road truly unreliable? I see no bad reports on PlugShare (though not everyone checks in on PlugShare). @KarenRei you once whimsically mentioned on some other...
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    Supercharger - Sault Ste Marie, ON

    PlugShare is showing the SC as available now, and I think PS's policy is that only Tesla is allowed to put SC's on the map (right?). So, that suggests that Tesla has declared this SC as active and available.
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    SuperCharger - North Bay, ON

    Not to mention what happens if down the road Tesla decides to put a SC in Espanola proper? And the citizens of Baldwin Township might be a bit put off by their SC being called the Espanola SC. I vote for accuracy: If it's in Baldwin, call it the Baldwin SC.
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    Supercharger - Deep River, ON

    @cpwl, was the Jule charger in Mattawa operational?
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    Supercharger - Deep River, ON

    I have considered mentioning e.g., Tesla's Destination Charging program (I've gotten chargers at a few other hotels that way). The problem was, from the hotel's perspective, why should they invest in their own charging infrastructure when there's a charger right across the street? Arguably...
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    Supercharger - Deep River, ON

    Hurray! Let's hope it works with Tesla's Chademo adapter (which the Ivy, according to reports, does not so far). I like to stay at the Le Voyageur Inn in Mattawa when I'm in that area. Using the L3 charger at the ScotiaBank across the street use to dove-tail nicely. But over the past year...
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    Supercharger - St. Louis Park, MN

    Sadly, none of the SuperChargers under construction along the Trans Canadian Highway are operational yet. A Tesla-owned Model X was seen testing one of the chargers in North Bay for a few days this past weekend, but now the MX is gone and the charger is dark. We're so close on the TCH, and...
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    SuperCharger - North Bay, ON

    You're assuming it's charging. More likely it's not charging but communicating, testing, benchmarking, etc. the output of the charger and other diagnostic activities. It's just easier for Tesla to build all that into an X making it all automatically portable. Definitely a good sign that...
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    Supercharger - Deep River, ON

    Perhaps. But my adapter worked last year at the Tim Horton's in Deep River & North Bay, and at the ScotiaBanks in Spanish, Elliot Lake, Mattawa, and Pembroke. This year I only tried Spanish, North Bay, and Deep River, and all three failed. The adapter also worked at the three Electric Circuit...
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    Supercharger - Deep River, ON

    I have found it to be unreliable. I was there a few weeks ago and it kept saying it couldn't connect to the car. Same thing happened in Spanish. I was beginning to wonder if perhaps something was wrong with the car or the Chademo adapter. But then the charger at PetroCan in Espanola worked...
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    Supercharger - Deep River, ON

    I did send a message to Plugshare about it.