They stopped adding new locations to the map a while ago. Any that were on there as grey pins that haven’t opened yet just have the year, no quarters. Only sites added as coming soon now are the voting winners.
Only one other future Supercharger site near Blacksburg has been identified by the Supercharge(dot)info sleuths. A Supercharger station at Daleville, Va, a little north of Roanoke, has been in the planning/permitting stage for almost three years. I suspect this site may never be built, but the Blacksburg site also took several years to go from permitting to energizing. Time will tell.
I am about to run most of the length of 81 south and back to north in my MYP with a one or two axel Uhaul box trailer.
Just to alert you , the SC at Abingdon, Va, is not easy to get into just with a car. I think pulling a trailer behind the Holiday Inn will be a bit of a nightmare.
Check out the threads here for each site, there should be pictures. I would say the vast majority of sites are not trailer friendly so hoping that all the ones you need are is a big ask.
ABRP shows yes and no votes per stop and if trailer friendly
Be careful with ABRP. I just plugged your route in to see ballpark what you are looking at and when switching reference figures to Wh/mile it showed reference as 147(!!!) for 2022 MYP at 65mph. 75000/147=510 mile range by that reference number. I believe the EPA number is 250 and actual is more like 330 so I used 600 to factor in towing worst case scenario. I looked at the first few suggested spots noting there are multiple options in some cases (Lexington for example) so will require more careful planning than what the built in computer will suggest. While there are pull in spots available (towing friendly), some of them require you to be an ahole and block traffic to use while towing and most sites only have one such spot so you have to hope it is open. I would suggest preparing for the inevitable and unhooking at each stop.
thanks for the help, very nice
I will check it out. I have only towed a small utility trailer around town a couple times but have seen my Wh/mi go up quite a bit, even for short trips with a lite trailer load so I may not have much to add. I am a numbers guy though and when the base ABRP plan only had 2 charging stops, it tickled the "something is wrong here" part of my brain.
The Store is built with the SCs. It opens today! See my web page about it: http://roperld.com/science/SignificanceTeslaSuperchargerBlacksburg.pdf and my charging web page: http://roperld.com/science/ChargingBEVsFacts.pdf.
look back, we've been talking about it for a week
We just charged at the NRV Mall last weekend. We tried to use the CCS right off 81 at the GM dealership, but it wouldn't activate. There's a 4 stall right nextdoor at the Ford dealership that has been built but isn't live yet.
Its not on the map because it isn't active. They had it up for testing and some people snuck in to charge and were chased off. It's not showing in the Tesla app either which is the most up to date thing you can reference as to whether chargers are available or not. Tesla doesn't want people charging here yet for whatever reason (site may not have passed building inspections yet or some other reason).
I think you misunderstand the comments. Just because it dispenses energy doesn’t mean it’s “open”. Someone posted that they were the first to charge but were asked to leave because the site wasn’t open yet. Now that it is on the map in the app, it is open.
