281 Corridor - Lampasas / Burnet

[wreighven]

I really wish someone could take Elon on a drive through the dumpster fire that is I-35. If ONE supercharger complex was installed somewhere along the Lampasas / Burnet area a LOT of people would be able to skip the mess that is I-35. Please Elon make it so!

 

[aprendido]

I'd also add somewhere on 281 between 1604 in San Antonio and Blanco/Johnson City.

 

[NoPetrolDream]

I've driven my Model 3 between Fort Worth and Austin via 281/183 several times, stopping at Stonegate to charge. That said, since my destination in Austin was on the far southwest section, near the Waldorf school, that meant wading through Austin traffic. Prior to my Tesla I avoided that by continuing on 281 to 71, south of Burnet. So, a supercharger in Burnet or Lampasas would be awesome, as even in a LR RWD Model 3, going that far without a charge stop is cutting it very close, and would leave me looking at Level 2 charging on that end vs. a supercharger.

 

[DanL3]

Yes would be nice. Even today in 2023

 

[NoPetrolDream]

Yes would be nice. Even today in 2023

The Hamilton supercharger, once it's up and running, will allow me to resume the Burnet/Marble Falls route vs. going to Cedar Park supercharger.

 

[electricglider]

Don't know how many you think "a lot" of people is that would be able to skip I-35 by going up 281 instead. For anybody going between Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin/San Antonio (which is the vast majority of people), detouring to 281 is just too much out of the way. And even for me if I have to detour around Austin to go to back and forth from SA and Dallas, then I just use toll road 130 which has plenty of Superchargers already.

There is simply not that much demand going through that 281 corridor to justify installing Superchargers there over I-35 between Austin and Dallas. Maybe once I-35 has plenty of Superchargers then they can work on 281.

 

[DanL3]

Build it and they will come.

I go from Austin to Sweetwater. Maybe not Lampasas, Maybe Brownwood would be better. But Hamilton is out of the way for anyone going to Sweetwater and on up to Lubbock.