Louisville, KY Service Center coming soon?

[jsight]

I was a little confused by the use of "SC". I'm guessing you meant that they only show Super Charger locations as "Coming Soon", not Service Centers. Maybe Tesla should rename of those two "SC" things.

Try living in SC where we can't have an SC or even an SC, but we have 14 SCs.

 

[ChrisC]

Now imagine this conversation in South Carolina. Oh wait, one of the parties here is in SC (edit: jsight beat me to it)

This is why some people use the abbreviation SuC and SvC, and why I just never abbreviate them at all (including South Carolina).

 

[Skione65]

I finally had a chance to stop by the new Service Center location. Drove around the whole lot/building to check on the status. No one available (construction worker wise) to consult on the apparent timeline for completion. Not making much progress. Still a shell of a building from the looks of things. They are “working” but it looks like progress at a snails pace. In all honesty I was hoping they were further along. Even from what I could see inside they have ALOT of work to do.

Ski

 

[silvermaxd]

I finally had a chance to stop by the new Service Center location. Drove around the whole lot/building to check on the status. No one available (construction worker wise) to consult on the apparent timeline for completion. Not making much progress. Still a shell of a building from the looks of things. They are “working” but it looks like progress at a snails pace. In all honesty I was hoping they were further along. Even from what I could see inside they have ALOT of work to do.

Ski

thanks for the update! Hopefully will be done this year

 

[Skione65]

thanks for the update! Hopefully will be done this year

No worries! Hopefully so! Was curious for the longest time on the progress and finally stopped by. Glad to update.

Ski

 

[TomServo]

Elon/Tesla better get moving. Tesla sales for 2022 could approach 900K vehicles here in the US and this lack of Service Centers is going to come back and haunt them if folks can't get their Tesla's serviced in a timely manner. It's bad enough now if you are involved in an accident. I know Elon tweeted a few years ago Tesla was going to add more Service Centers, so hopefully, this happens sooner rather than later.

 

[Skione65]

No worries! Hopefully so! Was curious for the longest time on the progress and finally stopped by. Glad to update.

Ski

@RNHurt,
Stopped by yesterday again (Mar 31). Not much change. Lots of construction trucks. Mostly inside work still I imagine. Slow going. By the way don’t see any Superchargers there yet. I can’t imagine having a SC without Superchargers but who knows. I’ll keep you updated. Was going to post photos but so little change I elected to not take any this go around! (Oh….the bonfire pile of trash/garbage was gone in front of the front door! Progress!)

Ski

 

[rglore]

Month later, about the same.

 

[RNHurt]

Did they paint it blue? Is that a "standard" Tesla Service Center color?

 

[Skione65]

Month later, about the same.
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Nice! A few days after my stop by. Wow….they’ve really cleaned the lot up. Looks good. Thanks for the update. Good to have another watching out in addition to my drive byes. You must have gone by there yesterday (Sunday) as there are no construction trucks in the lot like usual.

Ski

 

[Skione65]

Did they paint it blue? Is that a "standard" Tesla Service Center color?

Can’t remember. I’ll look at my old photos. I’m a local and honestly can’t remember if the old Harley Davidson place was blue, brown or what. My neighbor was a Harley guy. I had a road bike years ago but now am not. I’ll see what I can find.

Edit: Wow. Good eye! looks like they did. If you look at my photos upthread the cinder block is grey/light tan. Now it’s that blue. Odd color but looks like a change. Now I don’t know if that’s primer or the final color but definitely a change. The porta-potty even matches the blue to a “T” (pun intended). They should have used Tesla red! (On the cinderblock, NOT the porta-pot)!
Ski

 

[rglore]

Only 4 superchargers, might be a new style low cost non-public design. 3 inch conduit feeder with two huge wires and no cable cooling equipment.

 

[Jeremy3292]

View attachment 811533View attachment 811528Only 4 superchargers, might be a new style low cost non-public design. 3 inch conduit feeder with two huge wires and no cable cooling equipment.

These are likely not superchargers and are just the standard Tesla L2 chargers they have in the parking lot at most service centers.

 

[silvermaxd]

surprised Tesla still doesn't show this site as a coming soon

 

[RNHurt]

I hope they have longer cables. Putting them in the middle of the parking spot like that is going to make it difficult to reach the charge port on the cars.

 

[rglore]

These are likely not superchargers and are just the standard Tesla L2 chargers they have in the parking lot at most service centers.

Don’t think you need 4/0 guage wire for L2 chargers. Did you notice the massive power distribution panel and supercharger in the background? They are using the existing building transformer so four stalls is all the power they have avaiable.

 

[Jeremy3292]

Don’t think you need 4/0 guage wire for L2 chargers.

You need 6 gauge at minimum for the Tesla wall connectors so 4 gauge isn't that crazy. Not sure where you saw the wire at also? Any pics?

Did you notice the massive power distribution panel and supercharger in the background?

I do not see any superchargers anywhere in your photos. Can you point them out?

They are using the existing building transformer so four stalls is all the power they have avaiable.

Which makes it even more unlikely they are superchargers. Notice the pedestals are the same as the ones you can purchase online yourself:

Pedestal for Wall Connector

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If I'm wrong then I'm wrong, but this looks like a classic Tesla service center setup.

 

[scottf200]

Only 4 superchargers, might be a new style low cost non-public design. 3 inch conduit feeder with two huge wires and no cable cooling equipment.

Picture location/direction it appears.
11701 Gateworth Way, Louisville, KY 40299 (from info posted above)

 

[ChrisC]

Ohhhhh a teachable moment: 4/0 AWG is not the same as 4 AWG.

Wire Size, AWG and Funny Numbers

It amazes me how the smallest details can escape you. Or, well, escape me. Wire gauge seems simple enough, it’s a number that gets smaller as the wire gets bigger, right? 14 gauge wire is …

evmc2.wordpress.com

 

[Jeremy3292]

Ohhhhh a teachable moment: 4/0 AWG is not the same as 4 AWG.

Wire Size, AWG and Funny Numbers

It amazes me how the smallest details can escape you. Or, well, escape me. Wire gauge seems simple enough, it’s a number that gets smaller as the wire gets bigger, right? 14 gauge wire is …

evmc2.wordpress.com

Either way I still don’t see how in the world these can be considered anything other than Tesla wall connectors...but I’ve been wrong before