On Plugshare, two different people have reported in the past two hours that this entire site is DOWN. Check your in-car navigation before relying on this location!
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Supercharger - Brunswick GA
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Enginerd
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Confirmed inoperative. No hard feelings, but the intel from @Strikezone-38 & @felizf almost got me in trouble last night. I was there 8/21 around 7pm, and I tried 5 stalls. Bubkus. Tail between my legs, I had to draft behind a semi at 65 mph at following distance "1", just to crawl back into the Kingsland supercharger with 2% remaining. I was really looking forward to my first V3 250 kW charging experience, and I got something else entirely. More disconcerting, however, was that when I called mother Tesla to report, the guy literally could not find the Brunswick supercharger. (Which highway? Which exit? Is there a Waffle House nearby?) No, sir, it's the brand new 24 stall V3 supercharger on I-95 between Kingsland and Savannah. He was totally unaware of it. The in-car nav was reporting 250 kW, but otherwise no status in terms of stalls available or in-use. Lesson learned, I'll wait for the official status on the in-car nav before relying on availability to make my destination.
My apologies, but if you look closely you will see I was replying to the Kingsland post. When I went up and down 95, this SC was not up and running yet. Glad you made it to the Kingsland SC!
My in car nav is directing to Brunswick as one of the charging stops for a trip to Wilmington , NC.
In the Plugshare listing, activated a couple days ago, there were more negative checkins yesterday, but now two GOOD checkins today, so perhaps whatever the problem is has passed.
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Bad job though by Tesla not even knowing status of their own systems. It sounds like their commissioning process skipped a step or something. A new site should not show up in navigation, effectively leading moths to the light, until all of the support systems are ready to go. It's one thing for those of us here in these bleeding edge forums to hope a brand new site is working, but once they display it in the nav systems of Average Joe cars, it needs to be solid.
PlugShare - Find Electric Vehicle Charging Locations Near You
Bad job though by Tesla not even knowing status of their own systems. It sounds like their commissioning process skipped a step or something. A new site should not show up in navigation, effectively leading moths to the light, until all of the support systems are ready to go. It's one thing for those of us here in these bleeding edge forums to hope a brand new site is working, but once they display it in the nav systems of Average Joe cars, it needs to be solid.
Similar story here... Nav directed me here, the whole site was down and had to draft behind a truck to barely make it to Kingsland.
Lesson learned: if the Nav does not show the # of stalls available on a site, the whole site may be down, be sure to have enough for a backup plan before relying on that site.
Lesson learned: if the Nav does not show the # of stalls available on a site, the whole site may be down, be sure to have enough for a backup plan before relying on that site.
M3BlueGeorgia
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In addition, newly opened sites seem to be a problematic for the first month or so.
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Charged yesterday. Disappointed though in site/5D.
Charging was very slow compared to previous charge at Hardeeville. Probably a bad unit (I always check to see how charging is going but didn’t yesterday on this one until too late).
Charging was very slow compared to previous charge at Hardeeville. Probably a bad unit (I always check to see how charging is going but didn’t yesterday on this one until too late).
Bobbo8
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Stopped at the Brunswick Tesla SC and the Courtyard hotel was closed. So the restrooms were not available.
PStewart
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Toucan’s Ale House is within a mile, good bar and food and amusing karaoke with outdoor seating.
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I travel frequently between NC & FL...I always work out my charging to bypass Brunswick & use Yulee. 250 location & good food choices.
(46-28)c/kWh / 100c/$ * 45kWh = $8.10.
It's $4-$6/game at the bowling alley. $4 shoe rental though, so bring your own if you can.
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