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Quick drive-by late Monday, bollards in place around equipment cabinets and transformer pad. Dumpster gone, looked like some black coating on fresh pavement around pedestals, so maybe ready to re-stripe parking lines. No light standards installed on bases yet.

Had to do some errands later, stopped by as the sun was low in the West, so not the greatest pics. Looking pretty much due West, Mount Rose big snowy mountain ahead, Slide Mountain where Mt Rose ski area is hiding behind skinny tree. Light pole base is stripped of sonotube, and backfilled...

Was wondering about this site and its inspection status, and noticed that the original permit was cancelled. After fruitlessly searching for a "WASHOE" permit, I realized the area was annexed a while back, and is now in RENO jurisdiction. New permit with changed contractor This has "set new...

Just after 7pm Thursday April 25, bollards in front of all pedestals, and preparing to install bollards in front of transformer, switchgear and electronics cabinets. Looking North-Northwest over the fence. Site getting a bit more cleaned up, but still have to do stripping of parking spaces...

Passed by late Monday the 22nd. At first, appeared to be unchanged. But some subtle things became apparent. Looking North West. As TahoeTeal mentioned, the pedestals are wrapped in plastic, but the ones at the South end have been backfilled. Note off to right next to skid-steer, nearly empty...

Weather cam shows fence is down, though a couple of traffic cones at exit of lane nearest to building.

Thursday April 18th just after 11am, drive by, saw a worker with V3 electronics cabinets doors open, working on the DC (red and black) wiring at cabinet end. Pedestals were closed up, so apparently they are already wired. Didn't manage to spot any spools of brown/orange/yellow/gray wires (the...

Yeah - the Gold Ranch's weather cam shows the transformer in place - that was fast compared to a lot of sites. Also the parking lot is re-sealed and stripped - hard to tell if the lines are perpendicular to the travel lane or slightly angled. Fence still up.

Passed by just after 11am Thursday, one crew was loading up the pavement roller and another pulling the DC wiring to the pedestals using the forklift to pull on the pull rope.

Wednesday afternoon update: V3 power electronics and switchgear cabinets are mounted. Site cleaned up some, 16th pedestal still not mounted. Getting close to the wait for the transformer. Looking North East, toward the Atlantis casino. 4th V3 cabinet peeking out from behind the others...

Mods - the Google Map link says 1770 E Bayshore, should be 1700. existing link: Google Maps @Guacahummus @corywright @Big Earl

The "cabinet" is pad mount distribution switchgear, in this instance, specifically ABB Elastimold™ brand. These pad mount cabinets have several (typically 4, but maybe more) 3 phase switches to allow turning off the "primary" aka "distribution" (12,470V AC in the case of Palo Alto) to the...

Yeah, puzzles me a bit too. The site's outer curbs are mostly in red if you check the host site's weather cam, but I don't remember seeing any fire hydrants, etc. on the island at the end of the parking row, so I think it's not a code-required red-zone, just a try-to-keep-the-traffic-flowing...

The destination chargers don't need the 6 cabinets that Guacahummus took a pic of in post #11, and then there's the 4 V4 pedestals and 4+ conduits STDRDC13 showed in post #13. Next time you're by, take a look off to the left along the fence of the parking lot under the freeway, pretty far down...

Haven't heard much about this site in a bit, so decided to check it out. Looking East. All 16 of the V3 pedestals are up. Backing in combined with angled parking stalls seems sub-optimal, but they may re-stripe these, they're not quite lined up with the existing parking stripes. Looking South...

Got a break in the weather about the time errands took me somewhat close, so stopped by. Looking West Concrete poured for V3 cabinets and switchgear Transformer pad set in place. Looking South, some details: The switchgear has a pre-cast pad that the concrete has been poured around. Pull Twine...

My interpretation of "elevations" is the grade in the parking lot. From eyeballing the google map and the Comins Lake quadrangle topo map, there's about a 20 foot drop over 300 or 400 feet run in that area, heading North-ish or East depending on where in the parking lot. That's a 1 in 15 or 1...

Thanks for the update. If I may, there's another "er" needed in "Kemmerer". I didn't know Ridley's was so extensive across the West, or they're so supportive of EVs: Welcome to Ridley's Family Markets Maybe someday, one will be able to charge off nuclear power in Kemmerer, WY TerraPower...

On Saturday March 30th, took advantage of a break in the weather when passing by. Looking West - switch gear and transformer pad in place, the last of the major physical installation before transformer (though need wiring done and inspected before calling the power company). Looking...

Can the supercharge.info editors fix the site name and the link for "gmap"? It currently says "N Beaver Blvd" and "... 3284 North Beaver Blvd ...", respectively, which does not exist. (1) please change "Blvd" to "Rd" and google maps will ignore the "North". (2) you can ditch the "North", which...

Excellent! 48 pedestal bases and now solar too. Thanks for the pics. Tesla's findus map has a gray pin on the town of Dunnigan (next exit up), which I take to mean this expansion, but no other "details" than "Target opening in 2024".

A quick drive-by mid morning, no time to stop - they had the transformer input conduit finished and were backfilling.

Tuesday March 26 already. Looking South-ish. An overview of the transformer/cabinet area. Transformer pad delivered, switchgear pad laid down in its place over by V3 cabinets. Looking South West. Closer view of transformer input conduit in, backfilled, and compacted. Trench to SPPCO box in...

Tuesday March 26, late afternoon - quick stop. The 7 conduits for transformer to switchgear are in, still need to extend the transformer input conduits, then after inspection is backfill. Looking South-ish. Also, the trench plate on sidewalk is gone, sidewalk has fresh concrete where high...

LOL It did make me wonder how many EVs actually are in Wyoming. By the latest data (apparently as of Dec. 2022) from the energy department's Alternative Fuels Data Center Wyoming had 840 registered EVs, with only North Dakota having fewer at 640. (all other states are at least 4 digits). The...

Late this afternoon, they are installing the V3 power cabinets. When I arrived, there was some sharp discussion while drilling a little metal bracket, then they all went over to the cabinet and one guy poked his upper torso into the base. Would guess they're bolting it down, but holes in cabinet...

update Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - the second day of spring. Looking South West. Nice view of Mount Rose in left background (NOT Mount Rose Ski Area, which is on Slide Mountain off to left behind tree). Not much to report, they have dug out of bunch of the concrete to re-align the path for the...

update Thursday, March 14, after 6 pm. Looking South West into pit where transformer conduit is to go (at East end of site). Oppps!, they busted out all the output side conduit, there's busted out conduit all around on the ground outside the pit (not shown). If the two conduits shown are the...

Can you fix the zip code in the gmap link to be 77002? Otherwise Google says "can't find" The TDLR entry has 77007, which is wrong, the permit summary entries are correct. The parcel map viewer has no parcel found there under/to the East of the freeway, but the Amtrak lot is 902 Washington...

Down on the South end of town today - some progress here. Looking North West - a lot of backfill, and pedestal bases installed, on angle as pull-in spaces, though it looks like they will re-stripe the spaces. Note the two bases off to the right. I'm thinking these bases are set a bit low...

Looks like it's behind the shopping center, so wouldn't be obvious to those on the main road, and there's a cinder block/concrete masonry unit wall between the back street and the parking lot. Google street view on the major streets in the area is from Jan 2024. This link is back on Buaro St...

Looked to me that all the conduit is in when I was out there late today. When I got home, permit says rough electrical passed today. Looking West, transformer output nicely numbered. If one follows the line of the vertical conduit up, there's a "SPPCO ELECTRIC" box in road. (Sierra Pacific...

Took advantage of a break in the weather, and Mrbrock's intel that underground electrical was inspected. Significant progress with conduit and pedestal bases in, rather concretely. Looking West. All 16 bases are in, all conduits except the transformer input are in. Looking South West. The...

Was getting kinda late, but had something to do down in this end of Reno. Another shipping container showed up (behind viewpoint in parking lot of Chase and/or Bank of America). Since not inside fence unclear if for the superchargers or the Dairy Queen construction, but there are two containers...

Tues, Feb 27 - some concrete (pardon the pun) progress, though they have the concrete blankets still down over the stall area, so one can't see much of it. Looking East, towards I-80. Concrete blankets covering line of conduit for pedestals - can't tell if the bases are installed. Two V3...

Between errands stopped by, now have Tesla stuff at the site, so unambiguously a supercharger under construction. @corywright @Big Earl @Guacahummus Looking South East, toward Mount Rose Highway and the UNR Redfield Campus on the other side, Virginia Range in distance. 3 Supercharger cabinets...

Trying to check permit, but nothing listed at 910 Jacks Valley Rd. Instead it's listed on the permit at 911 Jacks Valley Rd. The Target store website says it's at 910 Jacks Valley, but everything else in that shopping center has an odd address. The Douglas County assessor says the Target store...

A bit of progress: Feb 20, 2024 - Looking East - towards I-80 All the conduits for the charging pedestals has been emplaced - looks like back-in from both sides. The conduit around the cabinets, etc. has been backfilled and precast concrete pads for transformer, switchgear and supercharger...

Today was out and about, stopped by this site. Looking North West: Lots of corrugated flexible non-metallic tubing (can you call it "smurf tube" is it's not blue?) now on site. The light pole base rebar cage shown in Mardak's pic is in the ground with Sonotube (just in front of blue materials...

A bit more work, but not anything specifically Tesla yet, so a bit too soon to say under construction. Looking North North-West, saw cutting done on the lines shown in Mardak's pic and some 4" sweep 90's and some mystery stuff on a pallet. Looking North East towards the Starbucks, vegetation...

Plastic? Plastic!? We're talking 277/480 Vac at order 1000 amps, (and available fault current probably the better part of 100kA!) and we're using flat sheets of molded plastic to protect it - outdoors? My first thought looking at the picture above is skate punks and "Hey dude, I bet I can jump...

Thanks for the closeup of the label. I figured the bases were heavy, but wow - right at a (short) ton each! And they came all the way from Michigan.

Hmmm - one of those busbars-out-of-the-side-of-the-transformer things, like was at the Blossom Hill site that burned up in January. See smoke on cabinet at lower right picture here: Supercharger - San Jose, CA - 925 Blossom Hill Road (TEMPORARY CLOSURE, 24 V3 stalls) I wonder if there's a...

Altamont, Oregon is an unincorporated community - so no city government to issue permits. Notice the permit is from Klamath County. Though as noted, all the mailing addresses are Klamath Falls. If one searches Google Maps for "Klamath Falls, OR", the outline of the city of Klamath Falls excludes...

Thanks for the pic. Accela also says 2 partial inspections yesterday. At the Rancharrah site, at least the 4 charging pedestals to finish out the long line on Rancharrah Pkwy, and the 4 where the accessible stalls are were stashed in the shipping container. Other sites we've seen lots of the...

Permit still not issued. Here's the direct link to permit: Accela Citizen Access

It would be clumsy to ship it all as one piece, and make for a logistics nightmare instead of having a small number of a couple different sizes of cabinets with busbar kits, breaker mounting kits, etc. that one can just order from a stocking distributer instead of having the factory make a big...

Well, I dunno. This looks (per Google maps street view) like the (formerly) empty lot South of the Shell station and North of the B of A. For only 12 stations, that's (a) a lot of length of trenching, and (b) kinda shallow and wide. A long sweep 90 bend for 4" conduit is like 3' radius IIRC. (c)...

Thanks for the pics. In the 2nd (top right) static picture of omg_Tesla's tweet, the two white cabinets are switchgear, NOT supercharger cabinets (which are off in a group of 6 elsewhere in the parking lot). In the 3rd (lower right) static picture, just to the right of the guy in yellow vest...

Two? Oh, when I go to the Tesla "findus" map and click on the Casa de Fruta location (which is 7 very rural miles from the nearest Hollister city limit), the address says "Hollister" and it even says "Hollister, CA supercharger" for Casa de Fruta. findus map (Casa de Fruta is just a gas station...