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Supercharger - Barstow (EXPANDED, 5 stalls added, now 16 total)
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e-FTW
New electron smell
Have a nice trip! If charge speed is down, then just use it to add to your margin. Not worth sitting there for hours for a big charge. Start out with a range charge at your first stop, add a bit in Barstow and make Primm with a good margin.
DDotJ
Member
Can you update us on the situation when you stop at Barstow? I have to make the same drive tomorrow and I'm trying to decide whether or not to stop at Barstow
Follow up to my earlier post, shown below: now that Barstow is back online I entered Las Vegas as a nav destination and this time the displayed route was very different from before (with the same starting SOC). This time it showed: Gilroy / Buttonwillow / Barstow / arrive in Vegas with 13% left. This tells me that the car nav was aware yesterday that Barstow was offline and compensated for that.
Just so everybody knows, Barstow is back online and charging at full speed.
I stopped by on my way back to OC from Vegas today at around noon and all stalls were full. I just need enough to get home and take a potty stop with the kids.
Good luck and safe driving.
I stopped by on my way back to OC from Vegas today at around noon and all stalls were full. I just need enough to get home and take a potty stop with the kids.
Good luck and safe driving.
OCRyan
Member
Thank you all for the updates everyone. This outage should shed light on how critical this location is to travel to/from Las Vegas (a popular route). Tesla, if you are listening, we need a supercharger in Baker, CA.
Chuq
Active Member
Or a second Barstow one here - Google Maps
(Going by what they've done at Folsom, Buttonwillow, etc)
(Going by what they've done at Folsom, Buttonwillow, etc)
cpa
Active Member
Gizmotoy
Active Member
That's part of the problem in a number of sections of the network right now. There isn't much redundancy. We're mostly insulated from it here in CA because of the densities we have, but on a lot of the cross-country routes an outage of an entire location could easily strand travelers.
Certainly I agree this route is important. This event illustrated why it's nice to have both more stalls and more locations. A mega-Supercharger like Fremont #2 with 20+ stalls is great, but if it'd down due to vandalism, loss of utility power, or whatever, we're going to be glad there are others nearby.
Seems like Tesla did an OK job responding to a first-of-it's-kind (at least as far as I'm aware) event.
cpa
Active Member
Barstow is at a major junction for highway travel to and from Southern California and Central California. I would be curious to find out how many people who charge at Barstow are going to/from the Central Valley as opposed to Southern California, and how many are going to/from Arizona on Interstate 40 versus Las Vegas and points north on Interstate 15.
It might make more sense to place a second Supercharger near Peggy Sue's Diner in Yermo
instead of Hesperia. The current Barstow location in Lenwood is a short detour for those who use California 58 to reach Barstow.
It might make more sense to place a second Supercharger near Peggy Sue's Diner in Yermo
instead of Hesperia. The current Barstow location in Lenwood is a short detour for those who use California 58 to reach Barstow.Stopped by Barstow SC today, everything seems to be operational again. By the way, saw this guy parked backward in front of stall 1B's spot and charging using the plug in stall 1A Another car arrived and had to wait since all other stalls are taken.
Another car arrived and had to wait since all other stalls are taken.You should have educated the charging noob!Stopped by Barstow SC today, everything seems to be operational again. By the way, saw this guy parked backward in front of stall 1B's spot and charging using the plug in stall 1A
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DDotJ
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I was there on Friday morning and saw the same parking job in the same stall too! Except it was a red Tesla...Stopped by Barstow SC today, everything seems to be operational again. By the way, saw this guy parked backward in front of stall 1B's spot and charging using the plug in stall 1A
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Sorry for the blurry photo
Looks like that stall confusion is not infrequent at this location.Stopped by Barstow SC today, everything seems to be operational again. By the way, saw this guy parked backward in front of stall 1B's spot and charging using the plug in stall 1A
In your photo, is the small grey cabinet just to the right of the leftmost large yellow bollard the cabinet that was vandalized?
Stopped by Barstow SC today, everything seems to be operational again. By the way, saw this guy parked backward in front of stall 1B's spot and charging using the plug in stall 1A
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The problem is clearly that they didn't remove the old white lines, which are directing people to park in front of the supercharger, not behind. Norman Parking.
Long term, with good sales at Tesla, the right answer is "all of the above". While it's exciting to see how much progress has been made in the SC network, ultimately the goal is to have millions of Model 3 cars on the road.It might make more sense to place a second Supercharger near Peggy Sue's Diner in Yermo
Those driving from Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert up to the Big Bear Lake area in the San Bernardino Mountains would benefit from an SC somewhere northeast of Barstow, as in Yermo and/or Baker. That would allow us to head straight up the "back side" of the mountain, via CA-247, Lucerne Valley, and CA-18, without having to detour over to the southwest side of Barstow for the current SC. For those of us with larger battery packs, Primm enables this, but you need to pick up plenty of charge. Plenty of folks from Las Vegas like to visit Big Bear.
I agree that a Hesperia SC would be convenient for those coming down US-395. It could also be nice for folks driving across the High Desert to the east, including those of us who sometimes take CA-138 up into the Crestline and Lake Arrowhead areas of the San Bernardino Mountains.
BTW, the snow is beautiful up here right now. I should be outside...
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