This site was just approved. Supposedly Tesla plans to install before the end of the year.
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Tesla 'charging' station OK'd in Bernards Township
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BERNARDS TOWNSHIP BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT Tesla 'charging' station OK'd in Bernards Township By W. JACOB PERRY Staff Writer
BERNARDS TWP. – Plans to install a Tesla “supercharging station” at the Dewy Meadow Village shopping center could make the township, quite literally, a magnet for electric vehicles.
The proposal, which calls for the installation of eight charging posts behind eight existing parking spaces at the King George Road site, was approved by the Board of Adjustment in a 7-0 vote after a public hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 5.
The chargers will be located in the northeast corner of Dewy Meadow, near the vacant, former Millington Savings Bank building. Installation is expected before the end of December.
Henry Misas, installation manager for Tesla, told the board that the proposal was part of Tesla’s plan to build a “super-charging network” designed to give its motorists the “freedom to re-charge anywhere they want.”
The charging station would be for Tesla cars only, he said.
Misas said he is working on “at least a dozen” charging station projects in New Jersey, but presently there are none in the Interstate Route 78 corridor between New York City and Allentown, Pa. He said Dewy Meadow is near the midpoint and also close to I-287.
Tesla cars presently go about 300 miles after being recharged, and the automaker hopes to boost that total to 600 miles within five years, he said. It takes about 40 minutes to fully charge a car, which Tesla hopes to reduce, but someone can opt to charge for only 10 minutes, he added.
Joseph Korn, property manager for Dewy Meadow, portrayed the 40-minute wait as asset, saying motorists would likely use the time to eat at Dunkin’ Donuts, O’Bagel, the pizzeria or the restaurants at Dewy Meadow.
“That’s really what the idea was,” Korn said. “We’re trying to get it to support our businesses.”
Motorists would pull out an eight-foot-long cable and plug it into their car. The eight charging posts would be 55 inches high. There would also be four supercharger cabinets and four auto-transformers, which were described as being the size of “a standard refrigerator.”
Korn said an eight-foot high berm would screen the equipment from homes to the north.
The charging station would be available 24 hours a day but Misas said he expected few motorists to pull in overnight. He also said charging is largely silent, making sounds akin to “a small fan.”
The eight parking spaces in front of the charging posts would not be “Tesla specific” and could still be used by anyone, said project engineer Andrew Miller.
A use variance was required because the business zone does not list charging stations as a permitted use. Additional variances were required for the charging posts to have Tesla signs and for the signs to be internally illuminated.
Art Bernard, a Lambertville-based professional planner hired by the applicant, said the project would advance a township master plan goal to improve air quality. He also said the site, being near I-78, is “a place where you’d want people to charge their batteries.”
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Tesla Daily Discussion - October 10, 2018 : teslamotors
