Supercharger - Athens GA

[Hookemhorns]

I just got off the phone with Tesla supercharger support and he said the supercharger in Athens is open with 10 stalls and functional.

 

[ChrisC]

And it's showing up on tesla.com now. Plugshare should have the listing enabled by midday Friday.

 

[ChrisC]

I don't know why it took them 10 days, but Plugshare finally got the listing straightened out.

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[Graffi]

I don't know why it took them 10 days, but Plugshare finally got the listing straightened out.

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Plugshare is user updated, so you could have been the first to post it. Anyway, someone beat you to it.

 

[Chuq]

Plugshare is user updated, so you could have been the first to post it. Anyway, someone beat you to it.

Not superchargers - it's not a user selectable stall type. Superchargers are automatically synchronised from the Tesla site.

 

[Graffi]

I did not know that, so I stand corrected. So it seems that Plugshare gets the update when Tesla updates their map? Database?

Anyway, thanks.

 

[ChrisC]

I don't think Plugshare is *automatically* sync'd with Tesla's own listings. Rather, they have an agreement with Tesla to suppress any supercharging listings that the public adds, until Tesla is finally showing it on their site. This is to avoid user confusion and frustration. If someone from the general public wants to add a supercharger listing that's under construction, they should enter it as a wall outlet site and as restricted (brown pin), which DOUBLY keeps it off the default user views and off the radar. Plugshare seems to tolerate that, or just doesn't notice it, nor does anyone else, which is the point. But it still gives us a listing to point fellow EV fans to, so they can monitor construction progress. Kind of like these TMC threads

After the station goes officially online, appearing on Tesla's website, then Plugshare adds it to their system. If one of our under-construction listings is already there (hidden as I described above) then they just convert that listing. As notes above, the Tesla Supercharger plug type is not one that we can select.

All that said, Plugshare's process seems to have broken down on this one, as it took 10 days from appearing on the Tesla website for them to finally list the station properly. In the meantime someone added another listing, not knowing about the hidden listing I mentioned above, and Plugshare quickly deleted that. OK, THAT they were quick at

 

[nogajim]

Hit 423 mph today.

 

[ChrisC]

For anyone following this old Athens thread (e.g. with notifications), Tesla has built another SC site in Athens, closer to the center of town, in the Beechwood shopping center, next to the REI store. Discussion is in this thread: Supercharger - Athens, GA - Alps Rd.