An engineer I know for the state of Kentucky said a permit has been filed for a super charger in Beaver Dam, Kentucky.
What’s the timeline typically for an installation?
What’s the timeline typically for an installation?
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An engineer I know for the state of Kentucky said a permit has been filed for a super charger in Beaver Dam, Kentucky.
What’s the timeline typically for an installation?
That is great! Much needed location for people traveling the parkways in western Kentucky.An engineer I know for the state of Kentucky said a permit has been filed for a super charger in Beaver Dam, Kentucky.
What’s the timeline typically for an installation?
Yes. This is definitely the SC. I was going to Hopkinsville the 5th and noticed it on my way there. However, from your photos and then there has been no progress in 3 weeks basically.Beaver Dam Supercharger installation seems to have begun!View attachment 677314View attachment 677315View attachment 677316
I saw this on the Tesla Owners of Kentucky Facebook group:Yes. This is definitely the SC. I was going to Hopkinsville the 5th and noticed it on my way there. However, from your photos and then there has been no progress in 3 weeks basically.
The pedestals are new. Wish I had looked closer - only 8 stations?Ooooh! I think it moved!
The pedestals are new. Wish I had looked closer - only 8 stations?
Except this significantly increases the operations overhead and maintenance costs for Tesla. Plus, depending on the electricity rate structure for the area it could also significantly increase Tesla's electric bills even though the charging sessions are the same. It creates a decent amount of added risk that the potential charging users show up to an offline station; 4-stall locations means all the stalls are being run by a single V3 supercharger cabinet. If that single cabinet suffers an issue, then the entire charging station is down. With lots of close by stations, this maybe isn't so big a deal even if it would be annoying, but with those added locations Tesla's maintenance will be slower than with a single, larger station, so offline stations would be a more regular occurrence and would take longer to fix. You'd also get slower charging rates on average just due to the way that V3 superchargers work.If instead of one 20 stall location they did five 4 stall locations and spread them around town they could give drivers more options for restaurants while still having the same charging capacity in the area. Or even just two 10 stall locations.
Or in the case of this Beaver Dam install, they could spread it out even more and put smaller installs in Central City, Leitchfield, Masonville, etc, and people with different start and end locations could have more appropriate charging stops in the middle.