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Go Fund Me for EV Charging in SE NM

Discussion in 'Mountain/Southwest' started by nwdiver, May 23, 2019.

  1. nwdiver

    nwdiver Well-Known Member

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    If anyone is interested I've started a Go Fund Me to collect donations for EV charging in SE NM. The available places to charge is embarrassingly thin. Targeted areas would be Carlsbad, Artesia, Roswell and Capitan. I co-own a PV installation company in NM and plan to use our electricians to perform the work between projects basically performing these installs 'at cost'.

    Please feel free to recommend potential hosts

    Go Fund Me.
     
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  2. Zaxxon

    Zaxxon Supporting Member

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    Tossed a few bucks in. Good luck. Have you been in touch with Tesla's destination charging team? They might be willing to throw a few HPWCs your way to assist. Especially if a few owners chime in backing the need.
     
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    nwdiver Well-Known Member

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    Thank you. I have. I know they stopped funding the installs and only donate equipment now. A pot of money designated to fund the install would probably help.
     
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  4. Zaxxon

    Zaxxon Supporting Member

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    I hope you have success. I traveled through to Carlsbad in November in our PHEV. It's truly a charging desert. Which is a shame, as Carlsbad NP is amazing.
     
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    Sounds like a good cause. I donated.
     
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  6. nwdiver

    nwdiver Well-Known Member

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    Thank you! Also please share :)
     
  7. Zaxxon

    Zaxxon Supporting Member

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    Shared to the Denver Tesla Club. Hopefully you'll get a few takers from our cohort. Also, paging @tinm.
     
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  8. tinm

    tinm 2020 Model S LR+ Owner

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    Hear, hear. I’m all for chargers in SE NM, an area I’ve barely explored as my S doesn’t have the range. I will let folks know about this GoFundMe in the Tesla Owners Club of New Mexico. Hopefully a bunch of folks will pitch in!

    I’d also recommend emailing Tesla’s supercharger team to let ‘em know of this effort in the hopes they might reveal something line: hey those long/promised additional superchargers in NM are being built soon... or not.
     
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  9. nwdiver

    nwdiver Well-Known Member

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    Depending on how generous Tesla is with equipment donations how do you guys feels about these installs being mostly 14-50s? I would assume that most people traveling in SE NM would have a UMC or some other mobile connector with them. WAAY cheaper than buying a clipper and almost as effective.
     
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    Far better than what's available now. The downside being that the 2nd-gen UMC tops out at 32A, and the cars can mostly take 48A these days. If there's a way to do 48A then that would be far preferable.

    So either is a big improvement, but 48A would be much more practical for any locations that are not hotels. Not so Important if they will be overnight charges.
     
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  11. Zaxxon

    Zaxxon Supporting Member

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    To put this in perspective, here are the Plugshare and Tesla maps for NM:

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    L2s in Roswell/Artesia/Carlsbad would be a great help.
     
  12. nwdiver

    nwdiver Well-Known Member

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    Yep... between Roswell and El paso RV parks are literally the only option :(
     
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    Just donated. Have friends & family in West Texas and Eastern NM, and like that part of the world. In fact driving my MS to Lubbock next week for a wedding, a little further north but going through Santa Rosa NM, then diagonally SE to Lubbock through “no charger” territory.
     
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    I charged at the free RV park in Levelland last week. Nice little park but there aren't any accommodations.
     
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    Stopping at Santa Rosa NM for the night on the way, because there is a Holiday Inn Express there with a Supercharger right in the parking lot.
     
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    Also have you all considered an alternate/additional plan, taking advantage of Tesla’s Destination Charger Program?

    This could involve canvassing businesses and places of public interest in SE NM and getting them to partner with Tesla in the program.

    Charging Partners | Tesla
     
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    I think @nwdiver is considering this. It sure seems like a fit to me.
     
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    That was kinda one of my motivations to doing this. Charlie Mayer worked with the Limpia hotel as the host and Tesla donated the equipment. My company installed 2 HPWCs and a 32A Clipper. Fairly easy. I'd like to do a few more.
     
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    Hopefully this project can gain some traction now that the holiday weekend is over. I think it's important, as it works to fill in one of the largest remaining EVSE holes, and one that happens to be a solid road-trip destination, to boot.
     
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    Thread bump.
    I hope this initiative by nwdiver does not get lost in the information deluge we are all subjected to. Extending EV travel into the Carlsbad Caverns area at low cost is grass roots at its best. A few dollars from the members in our EV community will make it happen.
     
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