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Supercharger - Barrie, ON (2nd site on Bayfield St)
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Chuq
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And I would find it very annoying that they added additional stalls in Barrie, or completely rebuilt the site, when we are waiting for a bunch of other locations that could make road trips much easier like Ottawa, Sudbury and North Bay to name three. I have only been to the Barrie SC once but I don't remember it being that close to a building, unless the strip mall has been expanded a lot.
mknox
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Nice to see my photo from last night making the rounds
Yes, that is a twenty (20) stall Supercharger site across the road from the Georgian Mall on Bayfield Street in Barrie which is in addition to the one at Park Place. Here are a couple of additional shots:
hingisfan
hingisfan_Mark_V
It's probably a lot easier on the permitting side to expand, than it is for a new site. I'm glad Canada is getting some late 2017 love!
Wow - does that make Barrie the first municipality to have two SCs? All before there is even one SC within 100km of our nation's capital.
Strange that this is a priority over all of the other locations?
This raises a few other questions:
Strange that this is a priority over all of the other locations?
This raises a few other questions:
- How come nobody saw this until yesterday? It isn't like this is a low-traffic location? Do we not have any Tesla owners in Barrie?
- Does this mean that other "expansions" will actually be second locations in the same town/city? Like Woodstock for example?
Hopefully the mods can move some content here from one of the other threads.
There is a 20 stall SC at approximately 454 Bayfield St in Barrie. It appears to be pretty much fully constructed from the pictures taken by mknox. This is in addition to the existing SC site that is a bit south of the city.
Is this the first SC site in Canada with 20 stalls?
There is a 20 stall SC at approximately 454 Bayfield St in Barrie. It appears to be pretty much fully constructed from the pictures taken by mknox. This is in addition to the existing SC site that is a bit south of the city.
Is this the first SC site in Canada with 20 stalls?
mknox
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Yes, I would like to see some of those routes filled in as well, and would actually prefer to see the emphasis on more rural sites as opposed to all of the urban infrastructure being proposed... but I see why they're doing that.
Barrie is kind of mid-way between the GTA and Muskoka and is also on the way to the Collingwood ski areas. I have had had to wait in line at the existing Barrie Supercharger on weekend cottage runs to Muskoka, and otherwise usually find it at or near capacity when I'm there. Way and by far the busiest Supercharger site I've personally been to. I think Tesla is just responding to demand here.
The Barrie Park Place Mall is not bad, but the placement of the superchargers there is horrible in that it is a LONG walk to the restaurants near the site. This new site is much better in that regard.
mknox
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It is actually in the Kelsey's parking lot. The shops you can see in the background of my photos are across the road/entrance drive to the plaza.
mknox
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Yeah - and a lot of people take this route to Collingwood as Bayfield St is Hwy 26 which runs between Barrie and Collingwood. Maybe things have changed recently but I don't think of Barrie as a high density city where people can't get parking because they have an intransigent condo board or they park on the street.
All the need to get there is a couple of SCs in NB - and NB installed a bunch of L3 chargers this past summer so that is very doable.Oh, ok. that is better then. but I really hope Tesla can build out to PEI. Am I too greedy?
Phillip L
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I think of Barrie as two things... a rapidly growing community of relatively younger people, who commute a lot to the GTA and the Supercharger gateway to northern Ontario. Not a bad idea to have more SC’s there in anticipation of the explosion in Model 3 sales anticipated.
No you can add a third thing - the Supercharger capital of Canada with 28 chargers in a city of 141,000 people.
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