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Maybe end of August completion for Barstow, maybe that's wishful thinking too...
2014 or 2015? Based on other SoCal fiasco's SJC, El Centro and Oxnard ...
...and Indio. SoCal chargers really seem to take forever.
It's awesome that they'll be done just in time for the end of the busy summer travel season. Tesla does a lot of stuff right, but Barstow has been a significant exception to that. The cross country route is starting to look like a novelty, a benefit to a very small group, many of whom may have used the route just because it was there. Perhaps they should have concentrated regionally first.
Hopefully the new chargers are up by the end of the month, I really hope. I don't know what other SpC sites have been upgraded and how long they took to compare to, but hopefully the heavy lifting is done, and it'll be a short order. I think TM was thinking they should be able to boast NY - LA cross country driving then develop the rest of the country. Leaves a lull in the middle like now, but hopefully this time next year they'll be everywhere, again, maybe that's wishful thinking.
Mobile Superchargers, interesting, hopefully they can be installed more quickly.
When you say, "I was just there..." do you mean Gilroy or Barstow for these temp SpC's?
I was just there & spoke to the contractor, the temp superchargers were being placed & simply secured by drilling into the asphalt & running power to them by laying a line above ground, work should take a couple of days but from there it gets passed to the utility co, permits & final testing, hoping to be live next week, this crew was from the Project 100 SpC in Vegas & he didn't know where they would be sent next or what the future plans were for Bartsow.
I hope that they have 480 Volt service available. I believe that the original 6 Superchargers, including Barstow, were connected with 208 Volt service. Gen II Superchargers can put out a total of 135 kW (120 max to one car) with 480 Volts, but I believe that they can only put out a total of 90 kW on 208 Volt service. It will be interesting to see what charge rates are like when these new mobile Superchargers go live.
My recollection was that of those 6 only Harris Ranch (the original 1-stall installation) was 208V. Certainly Folsom had its own transformer and was 480V - which I thought was the case for the other 5 too.