Supercharger - Chico, CA (LIVE 18 Jun 2019, expanded 2021, 18 V2 stalls)

[Blup85]

Not sure when this happened, but at some point 4 more superchargers were installed making this an 18 supercharger site!

 

[corywright]

Not sure when this happened, but at some point 4 more superchargers were installed making this an 18 supercharger site!

Could you provide a photo or a screenshot from the in-car navigation showing 18 stalls available? Tesla's page for Chico, CA still lists 14 stalls.

 

[Blup85]

Could you provide a photo or a screenshot from the in-car navigation showing 18 stalls available? Tesla's page for Chico, CA still lists 14 stalls.

 

[DenMan98]

Are the four new stalls V2 or V3? If V3, is the price the same as V2?

 

[bradtem]

I just charged here, and it's very strange. There are "Tesla" striped curbs behind the chargers, for angle-in parking, and you can plug in from the rear, taking away a charger for the slots in the "front." Never seen it configured like that. In theory, if the charger were full and you knew who was going to leave next, you could park in the opposite spot (for most of them) and wait for them to unplug and they would not have to leave. You could even have Tesla program so that when a car fills up, the guy behind can unplug you and move the plug to their car, and you would then not pay idle fees. Not that they do this. Here you see a guy at the back plugged into 4A while the 2 other cars are at the front. It is also important to note because these are V2 where 4A and 4B share power so you don't want to plug into 4B while this guy is in 4A.

I would say this is just a strange accident if not for the fact the angle spaces have the official Tesla style striped low parking stop and are placed exactly right to reach the cables from behind. I wonder what the real plan is?

 

[Speight]

I would say this is just a strange accident if not for the fact the angle spaces have the official Tesla style striped low parking stop and are placed exactly right to reach the cables from behind. I wonder what the real plan is?

My boring guess is that the spots on the back side just have the curb stops to help protect the pedestals from being run into.

 

[GuyHall]

I noticed it too, couldn't figure out why.

 

[5170304]

The backside parking spots are rarely needed for ICE parking. They had to protect the pedestals as mentioned above so Tesla provided the curbs to do that. It is not uncommon to see people charging off the back side.

 

[bradtem]

The backside parking spots are rarely needed for ICE parking. They had to protect the pedestals as mentioned above so Tesla provided the curbs to do that. It is not uncommon to see people charging off the back side.

Not just protection as the parking spaces are angled but aligned to make it possible to plug in. They can be repositioned but one option for the future would be to add a 2nd cable to each charger (or a 2nd charger in each slot) but in the second option the spaces are in the wrong place.