Supercharger - Chapel Hill, NC

[CHGolferJim]

Good one. Another way to get everyone all wound up is to suggest that this is for future charging of the Semi truck

I'll bet one beer to any takers that this will eventually turn out to have 12 pedestals after all.

Haha would like to see a Semi navigate into that space.

 

[Zarwin]

Haha would like to see a Semi navigate into that space.

To get to the space, they would need to first get into that lot, which by the looks of it would require teleportation for the Semi.

 

[Zarwin]

I'll go back over tonight and walk around to take an even closer look (from outside the fence, not going to trespass on the construction site) to see if there are any more clues as to why this looks currently like an oddball 10 stall. My best guess at the moment is that there was some local ordinance about handicapped accessibility that caused them to widen that spot, losing the ability to have the full install, perhaps after the plans were done and equipment shipped. Still odd they didn't just go with an 11 stall though maybe there is an issue with odd numbers or something. Who knows.

Of course that first pair of stalls sharing the whole first charging stack could be the rumored pilot of the 500 kW stalls. And by rumored, I mean completely fabricated nonsense that I just made up to stir the pot.

 

[SigNC]

I literally LOLed at "2B THICC"

 

[Zarwin]

I literally LOLed at "2B THICC"

First thing I thought of when I saw that space. That's not lens distortion...

Also, went by just now and there is no conduit anywhere else that I can see. This appears, at least for now, to be a weird 10 stall with one hella-thicc space.

 

[jsight]

First thing I thought of when I saw that space. That's not lens distortion...
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Also, went by just now and there is no conduit anywhere else that I can see. This appears, at least for now, to be a weird 10 stall with one hella-thicc space.

I think they are installing accessible spaces at new locations. I'm guessing this big one is for that, though the marking is odd.

 

[Zarwin]

no transformer yet but most everything else appears complete. This is indeed an oddball 10 stall. 5 spaces marker Tesla charging and 5 marked 30 min general. Wide space marked as "designed for disabled access - use last" as suspected.

 

[Jeremy3292]

@Chuq @corywright Please update to 10 stalls.

 

[Zarwin]

Quick update, fence gone today but still no transformer.

 

[SigNC]

10 stall, i guess that raises the minimum speed you can get up to 105kW.

 

[Zarwin]

Drove by earlier today. Still no transformer.

 

[Zippy114]

Status quo: no transformer as of late Friday (but, for some reason, the drive-in line for the Starbucks was HUGE).

 

[Zarwin]

Status quo: no transformer as of late Friday (but, for some reason, the drive-in line for the Starbucks was HUGE).

Everyone getting their panic lattes before the weather comes

 

[Zarwin]

Just drove by. No change. Still no transformer.

 

[vanjwilson]

We came up to Chapel Hill this afternoon to take my son out for his birthday. Stopped by this location, even though I doubted anything had been done since Thursday, with all the winter weather. (Starbucks and Chick-Fil-A were closed because of the snow.)

Plugged in, but there was no power.

I'm not sure what the transformer is supposed to look like. There were two sets of white cabinets. (one set on the end of the row in the picture, and a pair of larger ones side by side between the middle of the row and the other end)

 

[Zarwin]

The transformer is basically a huge cube, usually dark green or grey and around 4-5 feet high, that will sit on the concrete pad that is currently surrounded by caution tape in your pic. So it's not there yet. Once it is, usually a week or so until it goes live.

 

[Zarwin]

Checked again today. Still just an empty pad waiting for the transformer.

 

[detdds]

No transformer

 

[vanjwilson]

No transformer

My son will graduate, in Spring 2024, before they turn this one on.

 

[detdds]

Transformer is installed. I haven’t tested it yet.