Very excited about this kind of location. Fills a huge hole on the map as it's seemingly 130 miles from every nearby supercharger
Will be interesting to see what they do with the hole ESE of here.
@ItsNotAboutTheMoney feel free to chime in!
Oh man.
A splitter on _3_ US Numbered Highways.
Plus it's a small-town downtown location, which I think is more appealing for stops than chains by Interstates.
US-50
From: Poncha Springs, CO - 218.3 miles
(Pueblo, CO is such an obvious miss right now)
To: Emporia, KS 378.4 miles
US-287:
From: Amarillo, TX - 221.3 miles
To: Limon, CO - 119.4 miles
US-385:
From: Amarillo, TX - 223.2 miles (<1 minute faster than US-287, according to Supercharge.info/MapBox)
To: Sidney, NE - 274.2 miles
(To: Sidney, NE (US-287, CO-59, CO-63, US-6, CO-113/NE-19, l), 248.6 miles)
To: center of Dodge City, KS (US-50) - 153.2 miles.
Garden City, KS (US-50) is about 101 miles.
To: Boise City,OK (US-287) - 96.6 miles
I agree that it's interesting to see whether they'll fill in South and East.
Obviously I'd hope to see Boise City, OK* (although small and with a rapidly declining population), because it is at an intersection of _five_ US Numbered Highways (4 concurrent), and Boise City, OK would make the US Numbered Highway connection to Amarillo, TX.
Garden City, KS to the east would help fill towards OKC and eastern Kansas.
* Boise City, OK is in Cimarron County, which is also declining in population over. Cimarron County is the only county in the USA that borders 4 other states, and it has borders with counties in 5 states. It's staunchly Republican and maybe so pro Trump that they named a section of US-287 President Donald Trump Highway when he left office. Not sure how welcoming they'd be to Tesla. Clayton, NM is only 44 miles away and its population has grown a little. Maybe people fled across the border.