FMinMI
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Glad to hear of the new SuC! My son lives in Madison Heights and we would have to go to Roseville or charge extra long at Auburn Hills.
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Supercharger - Detroit, MI
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FMinMI
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I have been constantly posting on Twitter to @Tesla and @ElonMusk to get the CCS to Tesla adapter (and hardware mods for pre 2019 cars) released in the US before they open up the SuC network to other cars. Stupid not to do that...
metroplex
Gearhead
Since he is in Madison Heights, there's a new Detroit supercharger that opened on 8 mile and Woodward by the Meijer there.
FMinMI
Member
That's what I was commenting on (and what this thread was about) - or am I missing something?
metroplex
Gearhead
Sorry, I was also responding to the Ubly, MI supercharger thread as well and must have gotten them mixed up. Cheers!
FMinMI
Member
NP. But was hoping there was yet another one being built even closer
Have a good one...
metroplex
Gearhead
NP. But was hoping there was yet another one being built even closer
Have a good one...
Haha it's never a problem to have more of them around. I'm more interested in the CCS to Tesla adapter for more access to non-Tesla DC faster chargers. They may not be as good as Tesla but there's going to be more of them around than the Tesla chargers.
Ubly is important to me because it's the only DC Fast Charger near a drag strip... And you want 80%-100% State of Charge for max performance at the track. I am surprised that a lot of the tracks that underwent massive rennovations didn't even consider or care about EV charging (Milan, Lapeer). At least put in a few Level 2 chargers or RV hookups.
FMinMI
Member
They used to have a 'pin' for one in downtown Detroit close to the RenCen. I see it is gone. But, with regard to your comment, it is in Detroit city limits, if only by a block or two :-(
The downtown pin became the one at the northern end of the city limits. The Find Us map puts coming soon pins where the name of the city is, not in the actual location (with rare exception).
FMinMI
Member
metroplex
Gearhead
Yeah that confused me as well. The original "center" of Detroit was right on Campus Martius. While a neat idea, I was thinking how the "f" are they going to have a supercharger station there, traffic would be a PITA.
8 mile and Woodward is barely on the edge of Detroit. Good news is that you can stop by Kitty's cheesecakes across the street on 8 mile after you're done charging.
8 mile and Woodward is barely on the edge of Detroit. Good news is that you can stop by Kitty's cheesecakes across the street on 8 mile after you're done charging.
FMinMI
Member
Well, since they like putting their SuCs at Meijer, this location makes sense. No other (large) one is as close to I-75, and since you have one at Auburn Hills and then Toledo, this is about 1/2 in between...
FMinMI
Member
Got to use the new Detroit SuC Saturday. Got there early in the morning and only saw 2 other cars which was good, as when I checked the evening before it showed almost all in use! The road to/from I75 really needs some work. Charging was fast.
I was disappointed in the Meijer there - bathrooms were pretty bad (one toilet backed up, another with no TP holder so they just laid the roll on the ground. Lots of security presence too for a Saturday morning - Detroit patrol car parked at the gas station and another (in a parking space) right in front of the main entrance door...
asus389
Member
I’ve used this charger a couple times. It’s very close to Ferndale. It’s usually very busy with multiple cars waiting for stalls. There’s a security guard there mediating between people and directing traffic. I prefer the charger in Livonia or Northville but this is the only one along the Woodward corridor. Honestly, Michigan could use a few more superchargers in the Detroit area.
FMinMI
Member
I agree. Had to wait 10 minutes today. We need to vote for another one either closer to the airport or between this one and Auburn Hills right of I-75
asus389
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Yeah for whatever reason the Livonia one and this Detroit one are busier than the Northville one. Not sure why.
SalisburySam
Active Member
The Livonia SC is a few blocks away from a terrific corned beef sandwich at Bread Basket Deli, 11320 Middlebelt Rd, Livonia, MI.
metroplex
Gearhead
Someone at work who was thinking of getting an EV was arguing that there's no way to charge in the desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, so I pulled out my Tesla app and showed the SC's in real-time between LA and Vegas as well as around Barstow. I noticed that many of these SC's had up to 47 stalls 250kW capability, and many were empty. He was fairly impressed. I think that we do have a fairly limited number of Tesla stations, and the EVGo's that are around often have like only 4 stations. The one closest to me has 4 stations and I am now seeing lots of EVs waiting in line. About 1.5-2 years ago when that EVGo was first built, it was a ghost town. More and more people are buying/driving EVs now.
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