There’s a lot of conduit inside the fence which is typical of a supercharger install. Were you able to see anything inside the fence line as far as boxed cabinets? Usually the V3 cabinets have the tell-tale signs of being pretty tall when boxed and having “tesla energy” on the side of them. I would expect at least 2 but likely up to 7 for this site if they’re sitting there already.
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Supercharger - Bakersfield, CA - Camino Del Rio Ct (LIVE 22 Dec 2023, 20 V3 stalls)
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They have the place buttoned up pretty good. I really couldn't see much more than the photos show.
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That’s why I think it’s something different than the normal V3 site (coupled with Tesla themselves doing the install). Maybe first US V4?
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Based on the background in the images, the highlighted areas are where the fences are. There are 24 spots there. Maybe some evening shots over the fences when no workers are present?
I swung by this location last night. Didn't see any boxes inside with a Tesla logo
Thanks for the pic. There’s at least 18 pedestal bases within the picture but I have a suspicion there’s more outside the picture. @bmah @Chuq @Guacahummus , this is good enough for a cone and a title change right?
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Any updated pictures on this? Still think it is odd that Tesla Energy is doing the work and not a general electrical contractor like most sites. @Henrykaed ?
Won't be passing through there anytime soon. Hopefully someone else can get some pictures.
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I could be totally off base, but doesn’t a normal V3 installation only have the single large diameter conduit coming through the pedestal base? These appear to have 1x 4” and 1x 1” coming up through the bases. Additional lighting or additional cabling needed for V4? @Big Earl @bmah
There appear to be 2x 6ga copper wires needed for V4 LVDC. 4” conduit should be able to hold 6x 600kcmil wires so not sure why there is an additional conduit here but definitely something different than normal V3. Which could explain why Tesla is doing the install. Maybe someone can snag pics of the cartons the charge posts come in. Those should be telling. Or we have to wait til they are installed.
There appear to be 2x 6ga copper wires needed for V4 LVDC. 4” conduit should be able to hold 6x 600kcmil wires so not sure why there is an additional conduit here but definitely something different than normal V3. Which could explain why Tesla is doing the install. Maybe someone can snag pics of the cartons the charge posts come in. Those should be telling. Or we have to wait til they are installed.
Perhaps I'm not reading this correctly. It appears that there is one single conduit, but the ALT posts have two additional 6-gauge conductors for LVDC (lighting and cable cooling?) within that conduit. Not sure.
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That is how i read the specs as well. But maybe Tesla is field modifying it to be in separate conduit or maybe that was a change based on local code. Low voltage needs separate conduit.
As far as what they do, there’s cooling already in current V3 so unless they moved the step down from the post to the cabinet, it must power something else (And why would you run cable cooling off 24V DC). Maybe a built in magic dock? Gets controlled at the cabinet level and magic dock retrofits require these new cables pulled? Regardless of what it actually does, it’s something different from single conduit vanilla V3.
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Any chance you remember how many of these pallets you saw?
Would be great if someone wanted to do a drone flyover of this site...
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Thanks! We are expecting this site to have 20-24 stalls based on the power requested by Tesla and the number of bases present in previous pictures. There should be other cabinets elsewhere.
Next time someone is in the area, we would really like to see a picture inside/over the fence to see if the charge posts have been installed.
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