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A picture says a thousand words. Work continues on the Fairfield Inn side of the facility. Tesla equipment onsite. Four back in and eight pull through locations confirmed. IMHO, it's going to be a small parking lot to get in and out of while pulling a trailer.

Request admin upgrade the permit symbol to a construction cone. I went by the Fairfield Inn location to find Blackstone hard at work tearing up the parking lot. The employee running the excavator confirmed that the four spots planned for the far west end of the site are to be back in spots. He...

Friday afternoon I spoke with the manager at the Talking Cedar restaurant. He knew nothing about any supercharger construction and suggested I speak with the manager of the Fairfield Inn. He did say that the tribe owned the building in which the Fairfield Inn was located. Kayla is the manager...

Lots of luck getting a vehicle or a trailer onto the grass behind the 5 charger line in an attempt to charge a vehicle. The "drive thru line" for the Arby's is on the other end of the building. However, lots of folks, including the End of the Trail employees, use the east entrance into the...

The Rochester Supercharger, located at the End of the Trail convenience store parking lot, is operational as of 3:45 local time this afternoon.

8 December 2023: Transformer in place.

Update as of 22 November: The facility appears to be unchanged since the last post. There is no transformer on site.

If the choice is between getting a charge or being towed, there is no such thing as "a very awkward location".

All twelve pedestals are installed. It appears the Tesla power and switch gear equipment is in place. I see a pad where the transformer could go. The asphalt work appears complete but there is no lane striping or wheel stops. There are seven pedestals running east and west along 196th street and...

Tesla equipment onsite. Four pedestals set in concrete.

“I have a call in to the Chehalis tribe seeking some insight into the backstory of the facility.” The Chehalis tribal website lists the End of the Trail IV convenience store as a “Chehalis Tribal Enterprise” so, Yes, I am 99% sure this is tribal property. However, it is not in the confines of...

These images were taken this afternoon. Construction continues on the facility. I spoke with a worker (the foreman?) who told me that they "had passed an electrical inspection the day before so we are covering the lines up". I have a call in to the Chehalis tribe seeking some insight into the...

Despite the fact that none of the traditional indicators are present, construction continues on this facility. I spoke with the construction crew yesterday. The contractor is Tapps Electric, which is located in Sumner. They are indeed part of the crew who worked on the Ocean Shores job. They...

Construction is underway at this site. While the address is Rochester, the site is located in unincorporated Grand Mound. I stopped and talked to the gentleman who was running the equipment. He told me he had come to this site from the Ocean Shores project. He said this was a planned eight week...

I am attaching this information on construction of a supercharger in Rochester, WA, to this thread. Yarder On anther thread (somewhere), you stated you talked to a person working on the Ocean Shores supercharger who said he was “headed over to start work at the Arby’s in Rochester.” Here is...

Yarder - If there is any kind of opening ceremony for this facility, just contact me and I will come over to support to show.

I scheduled this fix via mobile service. My vehicle has more than 50,000 miles on it. I was quoted $154 for the repair. I messaged back and said this was a RECALL and why am I paying for a recall? The answer was "it's not a recall, it's a service bulletin and your vehicle is out of warranty."...

I stopped by the site Saturday afternoon 28 January. There are covers installed on all the pedestals where there were none a week or so ago. No lane striping or wheel stop work has been accomplished. I also noticed that the two lower power EVgo chargers across the street both have 50 kw Tesla...

I stopped by the site yesterday afternoon. The meter has been installed. I tried three different pedestals and could not charge. There are trash cans in place there were not there when I last visited the site. There are still no parking stops. The striping is still wrong. I think that the...

I stopped by the site about 2:00 PM local on 24 December. There was no sign of a meter anywhere. The pedestals are being wired but it appears the site has not been touched for several days. The layout is 2 pull in spots and 6 back in spots. As a note, the 3 EV Go spots on the other side of the...

Taken about 2:30 this afternoon. The pedestals, two cabinets and the transformer are in place. It was pouring down rain so I did not get out to check for a meter. The cabinets and the transformer are on the other (North) side of the street from the pedestals, at the east end of the EV Go chargers

I took these images about 3:30 this afternoon. As we all believed, the supercharger is going in right across the street from the EV Go station. This is between Walmart and Home Depot.

We are never "former pilots." We may not be current but we are always pilots.

Behind that there is a huge construction project. Not sure what it is, but it looks like an entirely strip mall or stand alone building will be going in there, so maybe the supercharger will be part of that project, but it definitely isn't the whole project. The sign in front of the...

See post #126. I posted an image (taken on 17 January 2020) of the data plate on the transformer which clearly states 250kW.

As of 2100 Local on Saturday night 21 March the site was open. It is not yet appearing on the vehicle navigation system. All the pedestal TESLA lights are on. None of the spots were ICED. I pulled in briefly with a 81% state of charge at 46 F. and only got 80 mi/hr charge rate.Obviously, there...

Still no power. I was by the site Tuesday afternoon 10 March at 1500 Local. As seen in post #170 (Ludakrs) from Monday, the crew resealed the asphalt, re-striped the parking lines, and reinstalled the parking stops. I could not see any evidence that anything else has changed.

Update as of 1330 Wednesday afternoon 4 March - There is a meter in place at Tumwater. All eight spots were protected by orange construction cones when I arrived. RocketMan88 is correct - the pedestals are not illuminated and there is no power.

Update as of 1530 Saturday 29 February: The update is that there is no change from 21 February when the transformer was installed. The meter could have been installed but the fence surrounding the cabinets is locked and it's too high to see over without a ladder. There is no power to the...

Update as of 1500 Sunday 23 February: Visual conformation of a V3 facility. The trench behind the pedestals is 90% filled in. All ground work and concrete appears to be complete. Work appears to be progressing nicely. No transformer onsite.

No change/progress since last Friday as of 11:AM this morning. No transformer onsite.

That is indeed the label of a V3 250kW capable supercharger. The open grills on the tops of the cabinets is another clue. The cables are thinner but you can't prove it by me. Enjoy the supercharger. It's been a long time coming. I hope the crew goes down the road and starts another site in Fort...

There are several V3 installations here in Washington state. The grills on the top of the cabinets are the dead giveaway that it's a V3 site. Have someone go over and look at the cabinet data plate. You should find "Output Power 250 kW" on the data plate. And OBW, it's "up to" 250kW. The one I...

I can meet you there for lunch. I'm looking forward to this facility becoming operational as I have yet to drive around the Olympic Peninsula.

I'm all for seeing the I-5 corridor be built out, but what I really wonder about is how Tesla prioritizes supercharger locations on a national basis. I lived outside of Oklahoma City until I moved to the Pacific NW in October, 2018. So I pay attention to supercharger construction (or the lack of...

Thank you, Plus EV.

Update as of 1745 Saturday 15 February: Construction at Kelso is confirmed. Appears to be 1 pull in and 11 back in spots in (as previously reported) the Panera Bread parking lot at exit 39 from I-5. Eleven of the pedestals are set and the pad is poured for #12. The pad for the cabinets and the...

I will go get pictures. Be there in 45 minutes.

Noon Saturday 15 February: The (obviously empty) transformer pad is located in the extreme southwest corner of the Pilot parking lot. Surprising, none of the spots were ICED. Perhaps the "Tesla Vehicle Charging Only" signs are deterring ICE vehicles from parking?

Does anyone have pictures of a transformer and a meter?

The 250 kW on the data plate is the confirming factor. If it states 250 kW it's a V3 site.

I'll check tomorrow.

Update as of 1300 Thursday afternoon. It appears all the electrical work on the pedestals is complete??? So much for "a week or two??" Obviously, no power. The gate to the enclosure around the electrical equipment is locked. The backup stops appear to be in the correct place. Site was cleaned up...

Update as of 2:30 PM Tuesday. Technicians working on installing power to the pedestals in the rain. . Several of the pedestals had their covers off and were in the process of being wired. I asked "how long to complete the job" and the answer was "on our part, one to two weeks." No transformer or...

Images are from 1630 Friday afternoon. I didn't see a meter????

1965Falcon - By "construction has begun", do you mean that ground has been broken and trenching has started? If so, we need to contact the moderator and change the blue dot for a permit to an orange construction cone. Pictures would be appreciated. Many thanks for the update.

I drove by on Friday afternoon. No change; no boxes of Tesla equipment. Cones still in place on the two western most parking spots.

I was by this site a long time ago and talked with the construction crew. There was a semi tanker truck refilling the truck stop underground storage tank. The cab of the semi was pulled into the two blocked off spots. One of the construction crew said they had to move the pedestal locations two...