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Minnesota Superchargers (location speculation, discussion)
- Thread starter Thxdude
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Jacket and hat on shovel to the left. Real life construction worker, on a Sunday afternoon on the right!
It should be operational by the weekend. Do we need to throw a birthday party at Tobies?
AMN: I see the wink but can't tell if that is a wink for the timing or the party. Do you or anyone have information or an educated guess on when it will be operational? Turnaround by 10/23 would be really fast, but I can hope.
We might be heading through that way this weekend.... will check out their progress.
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ElectricTundra
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In that picture it doesn't look like the power company has done their thing yet and that could take some time as well as a couple of electrical inspections. Does anyone know how much of the cable has been pulled and connected? There are also a couple of bases for either lights or a roof that need to be installed. Once everything is done how long for Tesla to complete their QA?
From a conversation I had with a Tesla employee at the X reveal event, it takes about 3 weeks to build them.
Anyone ask the construction crews if either of them are heading to a MSP location as next stop? :smile:
ElectricTundra
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Yes. They said no. They were headed somewhere down south but didn't know exactly where (or wouldn't say).
Charged at Baxter yesterday (first one?) I asked the woman at the desk in the hotel if they had approached Tesla or if Tesla had approached them about the SCs. She said it was Tesla that reached out to them, partly because they have a sister hotel in Alexandria, which is on Tesla's map for a future SC, although not until 2016. Nevertheless, we may already know the location of the Alexandria SC.
ElectricTundra
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How miserable is this misery of yours? There are a plethora of chargers scattered around the Twin Cities, these won't do?
And several of those chargers in the Twin Cities are 50kw DC fast chargers from which I've gotten 120-150 miles of range in an hour of charging. You need the CHAdeMO adapter to use them, but I think they're a worthwhile investment.
uh, if you can get here, feel free to reach out to us for destination charging if the nearly-100 charging locations don't do it for you. If by chance you are coming through Maple Grove, stop at the Great River Energy HQ (look for the windmill in the middle of the shopping district) and charge for free (wind / solar). You'll need a Chargepoint card.
I am in the same boat here. While there are lots of destination charges, Supercharging is a different situation because eliminates charging plans (mostly). With SC, just stop and done in 30 minutes and I can make it home. With destination, bit more time and planning required as you have to allocated 5+ hours usually (more if L2 charger or cold weather) plus the S needs to be at a specific location. For example if I drive in for a Twins game, it is awesome that Ramps A and B having charging but I have to plan on 5-6 hours of charging to make it back. With SC, no planning needed, just stop on the way home for 30 minutes.
I'm not complaining here (ok maybe a little) because there are excellent charging options in msp, but the SC was something I was really looking forward to this year. Jeff at the service center also mentioned this when I asked him 'yeah you and about 500 others are waiting for it'). So they know and hopefully soon it will happen. Perhaps they will add something also when they expand the service center (I heard that is happening now to double the size?).
On on a side note, looks like the solar farm is live at MSP on top of Ramp Blue/Red and they added 4 more charging stalls. This is great because the last time I flew out of MSP I took the last charging stall in the Blue ramp. They were completely full. Great sign of progress!
I'm not complaining here (ok maybe a little) because there are excellent charging options in msp, but the SC was something I was really looking forward to this year. Jeff at the service center also mentioned this when I asked him 'yeah you and about 500 others are waiting for it'). So they know and hopefully soon it will happen. Perhaps they will add something also when they expand the service center (I heard that is happening now to double the size?).
On on a side note, looks like the solar farm is live at MSP on top of Ramp Blue/Red and they added 4 more charging stalls. This is great because the last time I flew out of MSP I took the last charging stall in the Blue ramp. They were completely full. Great sign of progress!
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