JFK Airport and the superchargers (now dismantled) at the Syosett Service Center are two cases in point.
Both these SCers are bad examples.
Syosset bc while useful was basically almost a "prototype" SCer built into a gallery and service center with more to follow... they would have built it wherever their local gallery was.
and JFK b/c it located in an airport, which, perhaps somewhat counter-intuitively is actually a very easy location to get all the permitting and paperwork in place precisely bc it is an airport. they put in there even tho it really doesn't help anyone needing either long distance travel, or local SCing. they put it there bc it was easy to do... and they were testing the build out.
I personally find Savannah SCer to be a terrible location, but again I get it -- it's at an airport -- so you only have to deal with a very specific bureaucracy in order to get it built. that they gave Tesla owner an hour of free parking at said airport in order to use the SCer was a nice touch.
I remember fondly when CT had a disproportionate number of SCers and that was simply bc it was easy to get them built there.
remember, there are a multitude of factors of why a site is chosen for SCers.. not least of all getting permission to build there.
over time it becomes obvious which sites are useful and helpful to tesla owners, and which sites were just built bc it was easy to do so and they might get occasional use.
personally I found Syosset much much more useful than both Plainview and Islandia. (easier to get to from NYC with less rated range in the tank.) On Tuesday night (7/2/19) the Plainview exit on the LIE east-bound was blocked off.. thankfully I had the remaining rated range to get to Islandia, so I didn't sweat it.. but its been an interesting couple weeks in terms of Long Island SCers.. so I say, the more the merrier.
the in-car MCU said that 2 stalls at plainview were occupied when the exit was closed.. and I might have been able to drive to a further exit and double back. but islandia proved a viable alternative, particularly since I was headed east in any case and had the range to get there.
