Supercharger - Carlsbad, CA - Paseo Del Norte (LIVE 17 Aug 2021, 16 V3 stalls)

[awokeinthelbc]

Somebody reported on TezLab construction going on adding new chargers. I didn’t see it this past weekend but wasn’t looking for it either. Maybe somebody can confirm and report back.

 

[E90SLAM]

Somebody reported on TezLab construction going on adding new chargers. I didn’t see it this past weekend but wasn’t looking for it either. Maybe somebody can confirm and report back.

As of Christmas weekend, I don't see any preparation work or seemed intention to add more chargers.
Unless it is still in permit stage for expansion.

 

[rayluis1988]

Around 5am stop on the way back to LA. Just 2 cars for all that juice. I did pass the 200kw for a brief period.

 

[awokeinthelbc]

Around 5am stop on the way back to LA. Just 2 cars for all that juice. I did pass the 200kw for a brief period.

Peak charge rate is around 10-15% SoC.

 

[Tony8489]

I charged here around 8:30 Saturday night. On the car map I noticed it was marked "short wait" nearly all day. Fortunately there were a few open stalls when we were leaving my son's place in Encinitas.

I pulled into stall 3B and only got 83kW even though I was at about 25%SoC, I thought since stalls 3A-D were all occupied, perhaps that was slowing things down. Then I noticed that there are only 14 stalls, and there there are only A&B in group 4. So I moved the car to 4B and 160kW for a couple of minutes. I averaged 4 miles/minute during the 4 minutes on 3B but 7 miles/minute during the 20 minutes on 4B.

 

[Mrbrock]

I charged here around 8:30 Saturday night. On the car map I noticed it was marked "short wait" nearly all day. Fortunately there were a few open stalls when we were leaving my son's place in Encinitas.

I pulled into stall 3B and only got 83kW even though I was at about 25%SoC, I thought since stalls 3A-D were all occupied, perhaps that was slowing things down. Then I noticed that there are only 14 stalls, and there there are only A&B in group 4. So I moved the car to 4B and 160kW for a couple of minutes. I averaged 4 miles/minute during the 4 minutes on 3B but 7 miles/minute during the 20 minutes on 4B.

There are 2 stalls separate from the rest (one of them for handicapped access) so these are likely 4C and 4D. If they were unoccupied then, yes, you’d get higher rates at 4B than at 3B.

 

[Dave EV]

I pulled into stall 3B and only got 83kW even though I was at about 25%SoC, I thought since stalls 3A-D were all occupied, perhaps that was slowing things down.

Weird - I wonder if the DC-DC bus between V3 cabinets wasn't working properly. In theory, all cabinets should be able to pull power from each other, so it shouldn't matter what stall you pull into.

83 kW * 4 is 332 kW, which is close to the maximum AC-DC power for a single V3 cabinet (350 kVA)

 

[awokeinthelbc]

Weird - I wonder if the DC-DC bus between V3 cabinets wasn't working properly. In theory, all cabinets should be able to pull power from each other, so it shouldn't matter what stall you pull into.

83 kW * 4 is 332 kW, which is close to the maximum AC-DC power for a single V3 cabinet (350 kVA)

How long was your preconditioning?

 

[gaswalla]

PSA - folks often don't realize there are two stalls all by themselves to the left of the parking lot entrance... folks see the 14 stalls full and wait, not realizing there are 2 empty stalls behind them.

 

[NathanielHrnblwr]

The last time I was there, two non EV’s were parked in those spots.