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Hawaii Superchargers

Akikiki

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Nov 26, 2012
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Kaneohe, HI
Yeah, also checked for a permit on Supercharge.info. He's usually right on the money with supercharger status. No permit showing. No way they would actually be installing without a permit. After all this is not one of those Honolulu Monster Houses.
 

mociaf9

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Oct 18, 2018
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If you have the street address, you can search the Honolulu database to see if there's a permit for the supercharger:
Honolulu Internet Permit System - Building Permit Search

I just searched both 3645 Waialae and 3633 Waialae to no avail, but perhaps there is another address on that parcel that I missed.
I also just looked and none of the permits for the solar canopy work included anything about EV chargers of any type--which is a checkbox that it lists--let alone superchargers. And I didn't see any relevant permits pulled separately from the solar ones. I.e. nothing from Tesla or anyone else. In general, I recommend searching by a property's parcel number as opposed to the street address because you never know for sure whether someone's decided to use some unexpected street number in their application (e.g. 3633 1/2 ...). So long as you know exactly where you're looking, you'll usually be more successful with the parcel number. In this case, the whole property is a single plot so searching by the parcel number was simple enough: Search TMK = 32037027.
 

Polly Wog

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Dec 4, 2013
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Kihei, Hawaii
If you have the street address, you can search the Honolulu database to see if there's a permit for the supercharger:
Honolulu Internet Permit System - Building Permit Search

I just searched both 3645 Waialae and 3633 Waialae to no avail, but perhaps there is another address on that parcel that I missed.
I searched the same database several hours before you. I simply put in Waialae with no number, to get a larger mix of results. I went back three months and didn't see anything that could remotely indicate a supercharger installation. I guess we'll know more once somebody else has done reconnesaince.
 
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Akikiki

A'-Lo-HA ! y'all
Nov 26, 2012
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Kaneohe, HI
I drove over to Kaimuki and check out this location for superchargers. I saw nothing that wound remotely hint to superchargers. I guess I am looking in the wrong place, since I didn't find any sign of construction either. No solar panel installation or heavy electrical installation of equipment either. I was at the old Liliuokalani school and in the parking lot. Then drove all around the area. Nothing. The closest of anything could be the Tesl
Liliuokalani  1.JPG
a Powerpak shown in the picture of the old schools; parking lot. There's a canopy of solar panel already installed too.

Liliuokalani 3.JPG

Liliuokalani 4.JPG
 

mociaf9

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Oct 18, 2018
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sorry, I was misinformed. This wasn't so obvious 6 weeks ago.
Describing a Powerpack battery system as a Tesla super charger is pretty much literally true. Easy for someone working on site, who's likely not intimately familiar with All Things Tesla, to give you erroneous information in good faith.
 
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Polly Wog

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Dec 4, 2013
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Kihei, Hawaii
I search the Maui Electrical Permit database almost every week, and still no hint of a Supercharger. However, the Four Seasons hotel on Lanai is apparently having 24 (Yes, 24!) Tesla destination Chargers installed. :) I'm guessing that they will be used to charge all of the Model X's that they have/plan to acquire.
 

Akikiki

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Nov 26, 2012
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Kaneohe, HI
I think people are wondering where you came up with that specific Bishop street address. Your source, because It does not show up on the Supercharger list for Oahu.
 

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