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Supercharger - Alpine, TX - South Cockrell Street
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How long does it take for the navigation to suggest using it? I did a test routing to see what it would look like (on my phone, so don’t know about in car nav) and it doesn’t suggest using that charger, even for a round trip from Midland. It still thinks I should drive way out of my to use the charger in Van Horn on the way back.
The app shows the charger as available, and offers to route me to it if i select it directly, but it won’t select it to charge on the return trip.
The app shows the charger as available, and offers to route me to it if i select it directly, but it won’t select it to charge on the return trip.
Thank you all for the updates! Planning a trip to visit friends in Alpine… and previously was a stretch to plan in and out with the existing chargers… with this opening, and San Angelo up and running, it’s a wonderful thing!
It allows vehicles to get closer to the stall, making it easier for to reach the charge port. That'll be needed with the short V3 cables.
I’ve been at plenty of V3 chargers with tire stops no problem. Seems like they are just asking for broken chargers without some kind of stop whether bollards or parking stops.
If it’s for other non-Tesla vehicles, well this is going to be interesting!
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I suspect that it's for other non-tesla vehicles. I haven't seen a "pretty" parking solution that doesn't eat an extra charger stall yet for some of those cars.
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good location unless you get blocked by a train
no tire stop is a bold move... they'll get knocked over in no time. especially as folks are used to having tire stops when backing in from other SCs....
I got blocked by a train once in Alpine - I think this is fairly common, it appeared that they do some loading/unloading there?, so the trains are stationary for long periods of time. It was not a glorious experience. IIRC I eventually was able to drive around the end of it.
Nevertheless, an awesome Supercharger addition and the detailed pics appreciated.
Alpine is also a stop for the Amtrak passenger train to LA.
yeah. those Amtrak stops are sometimes bizarro. Idaho for example has only one stop if I recall and it's not Boise. It's the tiny city of Sandpoint on the Seattle - Chicago line.
I’m curious, I hope to get down to that charger sometime in the next couple months and it’ll be interesting to see how the pedestals hold up.
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