A new supercharger project has been proposed for Trillium Brewery located at 100 Royall St, Canton, MA 02021. This 20-stall proposal will be the first in New England to also include a solar canopy!
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Supercharger - Canton, MA
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Tesla came before the planning board on July 12th to present their plan for the 20 stall supercharger and solar canopy. The meeting was continued to the August 16th meeting to allow Tesla to come back with some additional information requested by the planning board. The board seems supportive overall but had some questions about lighting, landscaping and some thoughts about the location chosen within the Trillium parking lot for the project.
eladts
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Note that Trillium Brewery recently moved from its previous location at 110 Shawmut Road. The old location had two Tesla destination chargers and a single J1722 station, which I assume are gone now.
chjch
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Tesla came before the planning board last night. There were a few questions about lighting and handling water runoff from the solar canopy. The project was approved after a brief presentation and Q&A.
No walkability to gas stations but right next to a brewery with food.
It is going under a solar canopy, so...the lights aren't there yet.
eladts
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The brewery is open 12-11 hours per day, while the gas station nearby are open 24/7. In my opinion fast charging stations need to have 24/7 bathroom access. Too bad very few in Massachusetts do.
Farmer
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Agreed. Fast chargers located just off-highway serve travelers best when chargers are located like gas pumps are located, namely at 24/7 store/restroom operations. The charger industry, even Tesla, hasn't really figured this out yet for highway charging and still commits too many DCFC operations to these marginal locations. There's a reason off-highway gas pumps are put where they are and have the operating hours that they do.
Around 128/95, the Superchargers at Lynnfield - Marketplace, Burlington, and Woburn are all less useful late at night. I guess I'd include Danvers into this as well. At least Lexington and Newton/128 are 24/7 with bathrooms.
The walk to the 24/7 gas station at the Canton site will be a bit iffy in terms of security, late at night, in my opinion. It would be nice if the brewery/Tesla at least put an opening in the fence and a walkway across the lawn section at the end of the parking lot on a natural walking path to the intersection with Rt. 138 rather than forcing people to walk out the brewery fence gate.
Don't know yet. Most likely not. The site plan includes illustrations of both v3 and v4 posts giving Tesla the option to do either. But I don't think any v4 PSU's have been built yet making it unlikely. This site calls for four PSU's (16 posts) and 1 traditional supercharger cabinet (with 4 posts).
The prefab superchargers were placed today... a saw a photo on FB earlier, but searching for it all I can find are pictures of the Cybertruck 
Canton looks like it could be mostly done at this point other than site cleanup, striping and obligatory transformer & meter. Not clear if wiring has been done yet. There are a set of v3 charging post bases onsite that I'm guessing were miss-delivered here. Not the first site to get them (Hanover, MA got a few as well).
The prep work for solar looks complete as well with mounting bases for the canopy in place and a pad for the inverters, etc.... Not clear yet if this will be installed before the site goes live or after.
The prep work for solar looks complete as well with mounting bases for the canopy in place and a pad for the inverters, etc.... Not clear yet if this will be installed before the site goes live or after.
Farmer
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