Larry I admire your organization immensely. I wish we could do the same in Tenn. As a tourist I will be using this SC 4 times in the next 6 months. Can you publish a link to push FPL. I would be happy to push and I expect your folks would do the same.
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Supercharger - Plantation, FL
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I appreciate the kind words. However, I'm not sure what you mean by publishing a link to push FPL. From my dealings with FPL management I'm sure they want this station operational as much as we do. Just because they haven't set the transformer yet doesn't automatically mean that they are the hold up. Utilities need to obtain permits too and getting through the permitting process in Plantation has been a unique experience to say the least. I am not comfortable jumping to conclusions I and wouldn't want to encourage our membership to do so either.
Larry
A few minutes ago Dan reported that there is no transformer and no activity from prior visits.
Larry
Isn't this post from 2014 comical? In that it's almost the end of 2015 and we still have no Southeast Florida Supercharger.
KennyB-FLL
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Stopped by Plantation today. Absolutely no change AT ALL since my last visit on 11/6. Basically no movement since the finish of construction.
Cyclone
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That's the City of Plantation for you! Honestly, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea could have extended an olive branch to Tesla to get a Supercharger installed around the beach for the east side of Broward County and eventually, Plantation would have opened up giving Broward County two options!
There's no doubt that Plantation has been a major impediment. However, at this point, I think there is plenty of blame to go around--Plantation, Tesla, and FPL.
A general lack of intensity seems to surround this project. Even after Plantation gave Tesla the permit and got the inspectors out of the way, it took a long time before construction began. The actual construction took seven weeks start to finish. In two days, it will be an additional seven weeks since the construction was complete, and FPL hasn't even started to connect the power.
Permit problem, again? Maybe. Did the construction have to be complete before we started on the power connection? It's almost like, "Oh, yeah, electricity. Forgot about that." I'm sure there are things we don't understand, but we are left to guess because information is hard to get. What little we have gotten has been grossly inaccurate.
The apparent lackadaisical attitude on getting this done is troubling, especially considering it is the only supercharging "hole" left in Florida. I'm starting to have my doubts it will operational by the end of the year . . .
Cyclone
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Auger, true it hasn't gone as quickly as everyone would have hoped once Plantation gave Tesla a green light, but seven weeks is not that bad to get a team out there and do a build b/c they may have been engaged elsewhere in the country. The construction team may have had to find an open install slot to get the crew there. It still pales in comparison to how long it took just to get to the construction phase.
Electric700
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Should we reach out to FPL or to Tesla about the status? I saw earlier in this thread that it will open next month, but it would be nice to get a confirmation of that.
Brit4864
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I dropped by the SC site this afternoon and there is activity! It appears they are digging the foundation for the transformer pad and probably laying the power line to it but they had no idea when FPL would be out to hook it up. I didn't see the transformer itself anywhere though.
Cactus1993
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Credit for this belongs to Daniel Pearson of the TESLA FLORIDA website, who wrote today, at 2:43PM:
"You saw it here first. Activity at the Plantation SCr. The contractors are preparing to put the transformer in but have no idea when FPL will be out to hook it up.
"You saw it here first. Activity at the Plantation SCr. The contractors are preparing to put the transformer in but have no idea when FPL will be out to hook it up.
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