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Supercharger - Clyde, TX
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Oh my gosh. Than you thank you thank you. I was hoping it would be open by our trip out there tomorrow but I guess not.
They will probably be open soon. The install looks mostly buttoned up, so I bet they are just waiting on the city inspectors to give it the go ahead and/or for the power utility to finish up their work but it looks like the big pad mounted transformer is in place and I didn't see any open trenches or conduit so it I bet it's mostly all in now.
Don't know how often you travel out this way and how far, but they are also putting a new Supercharger site in at Big Spring as well, between Sweetwater & Midland/Odessa. I'm not sure how far along they are on that one though. I know it's been permitted but that's a bit far for me to drive to and check up on regularly.
(Edit: after posting this, I looked back at my pictures and there still may be a little bit of concrete work left to do on the ends but the changing hardware itself looks to be installed)
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Thats the great thing with these prefab units, I can see why they are using them more and more.
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I just did the same as you and took another look.
I think they have just dropped the five prefabs in there, can't really tell from the photos, but it may be that they aren't cabled in yet.
You can see the end one still has the cable runs temporarily filled with paper or something.
It looks like a nicer install than the one at Centerville though. That one has the prefabs bolted down with angle brackets
Yep. I updated the stall count 8 hours before your post. See post #21. 
You’re most welcome. Thanks for making sure we’re aware of changes. It’s a lot to keep track of with Tesla going gangbusters on Supercharger buildouts.
I promise, you'd hear no complaints from me. While I can charge at home, I know not everyone can and I'm starting to see a surprising number of Tesla's driving around Abilene. Clyde is still a bit far out to ask someone to drive if they need to top off while in and around Abilene. You'll burn up ~10%-20% SoC just getting out there and back depending on where in Abilene your going from/to.
As far as I know, we still don't have any DC Faster Chargers, Tesla or Otherwise within Abilene... which makes us the biggest city on I-20 in Texas without any DC Fast Charging.
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Since 2020 I have charged at the Hilton Garden Inn when I visit for the WTRC show each year. Only a 220V wall charger, but a charger is as charger does. I also have been known to charge at the Civic Center loading dock during the show. I learned quite a lot about stretching miles in 2020 when I rented a TURO for the weekend for the Abilene trip. Found out the hard way about Sentry mode (forced on by the owner), overnight battery maintenance in freezing weather, and other energy thieves. But I did make it back to Cisco with 8 miles indicated. And ordered my first Model 3 the evening I got home.
Seems to me there should be at least a 4 Banger in the shopping center area off Buffalo Gap Rd. There must be SOME retailer interested in the future. Can't remember the name of the convenience store chain there, but they would be a good landlord, IMHO.
I know what store you're talking about. That would be convenient for drivers coming up and down US-83/84 but is a bit out of the way for I-20 travelers and I'd figure Tesla would want to locate at least the first one near the interstate.... but with a SC only 10 miles away in Clyde now, they may not deem an Abilene site as necessary right now unless our local Tesla population here in the city grows more.
However, with them planning to open the SC's up to non-Tesla's, I think we'd be a good site for one of those type of SCs. All types of EV's have been selling pretty well here. I'm seeing a lot of other ones such as ID.4s, Mach-Es and Kias (forgot Kia's EV's name) in addition to Tesla's driving around. So, while I can't vouch for how the city may or may not consider EV infrastructure build out as a priority, its residents are certainly starting to join the EV bandwagon.
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Clyde SC is open now. It shows on the car map, and I've seen confirmation from some other people in the North Texas Tesla Owners Club group on Facebook that this is working. I have not personally been out yet to test but I'm pretty confident it's open.
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I go out to Lubbock a few times a year so thankfully there is one in Lubbock now. This was a different trip since I stopped for the night in Abilene. I was able to charge at the Hilton Garden Inn overnight so didn't need the SC in Clyde to be open.
Now that it is though I am wondering if I could do the trip from DFW to Clyde to Lubbock. I usually stop in Cisco and Sweetwater but that gets to be time consuming. I may consider doing that on my next trip.
The pin on supercharge.info appears to match the pin on the car navigation - at the Landmark Travel Center east of Abilene and just west of Clyde. Intersection of I-20 and North Hays Road.
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