Supercharger - Burlington, WA

[andyrebele]

There are both back-in and nose-in spots at Harris Ranch. The last two on the right are back-in only.

 

[MBCMDR]

Hmm, interesting - so these are going to be back-in to the parking space Superchargers. I believe that's a first, right?

Correct 7 back-in and 1 drive-in

 

[Francis Lau]

I am going to guess Thursday 7/18 for the first charge. I am not sure if Tesla announces it but I am guessing that someone will charge before it is "officially" ready.

 

[MBCMDR]

I am going to guess Thursday 7/18 for the first charge. I am not sure if Tesla announces it but I am guessing that someone will charge before it is "officially" ready.

Let me guess someone monitoring the build daily could happen to charge LOL... They did nothing over this weekend, I expect the wiring Monday and see all the TESLA hookups mounted in place and 30% wired Monday.. I shooting for it to be complete between July 1st & 4th.

 

[ORWA]

July 3rd. Before the long holiday weekend. They will be motivated. Centralia by July 24.

 

[Puyallup Bill]

First Use

First Charge Guesstamates

6/27 - Onesixeight
6/28 - PhilBa
7/03 - ORWA
7/03 - Puyallup Bill
7/03 - Edgewood Dome
7/05 - Seattle
7/08 - Saxena
7/10 - ThortsMD
7/15 - DouglasR
7/18 - Francis Lau

 

[ThortsMD]

7/10

 

[brianman]

Are we interested in first customer charge or first actual charge? If the latter, Tesla will be first. Or they should be.

 

[Discoducky]

Just want a heads up for the grand opening to be in the picture

 

[DouglasR]

Are we interested in first customer charge or first actual charge? If the latter, Tesla will be first. Or they should be.

To be open to the public, it would have to be the first customer charge. There will surely be test charges before that.

 

[Francis Lau]

To be open to the public, it would have to be the first customer charge. There will surely be test charges before that.

I agree that it should be the first non-Tesla company charge.

 

[Seattle]

7/5

 

[Saxena]

7/8

 

[richkae]

Hmm, interesting - so these are going to be back-in to the parking space Superchargers. I believe that's a first, right?

That sucks. This is why they should have put the charge port in the nose.

 

[Edgewood Dome]

7/3

 

[deonb]

That sucks. This is why they should have put the charge port in the nose.

At least with the SuperChargers you CAN back in.

There is a lot of J1772's in diagonal pull-in spaces where there's really no good option. e.g. At the Kirkland waterfront below. Nose-first there is absolutely no way for the J1772 cable to reach. But to back in that space you have to go and make a U-turn at the end and drive in the parking lot in reverse to get there.

And then when you pull out you have to drive against oncoming traffic until you can make another U-term.

 

[Puyallup Bill]

That sucks. This is why they should have put the charge port in the nose.

Shucks, as I see it, it is six of one, half dozen of the other. Pull in and back out, or back in and pull out.:wink:

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At least with the SuperChargers you CAN back in.

There is a lot of J1772's in diagonal pull-in spaces where there's really no good option. e.g. At the Kirkland waterfront below. Nose-first there is absolutely no way for the J1772 cable to reach. But to back in that space you have to go and make a U-turn at the end and drive in the parking lot in reverse to get there.

And then when you pull out you have to drive against oncoming traffic until you can make another U-term.

Yes, did that once at that location in order to have lunch at the Italian Restaurant. After all the maneuvering to get parked, remembered I'd left the ChargePoint RFID card in the LEAF. Duh!

 

[Odenator]

At least with the SuperChargers you CAN back in.

There is a lot of J1772's in diagonal pull-in spaces where there's really no good option. e.g. At the Kirkland waterfront below. Nose-first there is absolutely no way for the J1772 cable to reach. But to back in that space you have to go and make a U-turn at the end and drive in the parking lot in reverse to get there.

And then when you pull out you have to drive against oncoming traffic until you can make another U-term.

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And this maneuver is illegal on public parking spaces. In Portland it is a $50 fine.

 

[PhilBa]

That particular lot looks wide enough to negotiate back-in parking without resorting to wrong way travel but many of them are not.

Is tesla the only EV that doesn't have a charge port in the front?

 

[deonb]

That particular lot looks wide enough to negotiate back-in parking without resorting to wrong way travel but many of them are not.

Yes. It's a 8-point turn though. Quite fun on a car that doesn't have front park distance control...

I did that to get in. No freakin way I was doing that to get out again, so I just drove out against traffic.