There's picture, way back in this thread, of a Tesla sign announcing several upcoming Supercharger sites and their sizes, and Dublin was listed as 14. I strongly suspect that's where the number in the title came from.
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Supercharger - Dublin, CA - Dublin Boulevard (LIVE 29 Oct 2021, 10 V2 stalls)
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No real progress: no transformer; the steel plates behind the Target store are still there. The stack of unused pedestals has been removed. The landscaping seems to be flourishing; will PG&E deliver the transformer before Mother Nature reclaims this site as her own?
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israndy
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I think the place is under demolition and so the parking lot was up for grabs, they were stacking more trunkfuls of cars into the lot yesterday when I was there
Mrbrock
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10 V2 stalls aren’t going to change that. You need 40+ V3 to relieve 4 sites with queues (and one closed). The 5 sites on the map account for 82 chargers. Increasing capacity 12% isn’t going to do much (you can see what happens when 25% of capacity is offline). Increasing 50% would be a good start to get ahead of the ever increasing amount of Teslas on the road.
Some new permit activity. A site development review waiver (PLOC-2021-00067) was submitted today with the following summary. Not sure if this is to catch up the permits with previous work or if this is removal of more chargers. Definitely confirms PG&E capacity issues at this location.
There was a resubmit of the general permit about a week ago too, back on 7/13. It was permit BLDG-2021-01272 and is still pending. Hopefully this means they're trying to wrap things up and get moving on it again.
| Modifications to approved Tesla EV Supercharging Station at Target (eliminate 4 Tesla charging stations, eliminate 4 future charging stations (remove posts and electrical supply)) Changes due to limitations on PG&E power available. No landscape changes. |
There was a resubmit of the general permit about a week ago too, back on 7/13. It was permit BLDG-2021-01272 and is still pending. Hopefully this means they're trying to wrap things up and get moving on it again.
No visible progress: no transformer, and the steel plates are still in place where the repaved trench from the transformer pad meets the Target building. I suppose Q3 2021 is still possible, but I wouldn't take any bets on this glacially-slow site build.
The trenching leads to the existing transformer that presumably feeds Target's store. My guess/theory is that Tesla wants to tap into the power that also goes into that transformer, and the PG&E limit mentioned above means there wasn't enough capacity to support both Target and an 18-Supercharger Tesla site. So the number of chargers went down to 14 and now 10. If so, I'm surprised they didn't switch to Urban Superchargers, which is what I've seen at some other Target stores.
Tesla could easily cap total demand for a Supercharger at any rate they chose for V3s via software - and probably easier than V2s / Urbans since V3s are all tied together with a 1000VDC bus so each cabinet can share power with other cabinets.
Never mind that while 4 urban plugs top out at 75 kW * 4 = 300 kW, 4 V3 plugs top out at 350 kW per cabinet, so it's not much difference. Must be something else going on...
There MIGHT be some progress soon. A revised building permit was issued this past week. It was rejected initially but Tesla submitted the corrections and paid the fees, so they must be planning to do something soon. BLDG-2021-01272
Still no transformer, so this site won't meet its 3rd-quarter calendar goal. I'd describe progress as glacial, but that would be insulting to glaciers. 
Around the back of the Target store, the pavement has been renewed, hiding the residual hints of the trench between the two transformer locations. The parking stripes have also been repainted, including over the steel plates. Is this a hint that Target knows that these steel plates are going to be there a long time?
Around the back of the Target store, the pavement has been renewed, hiding the residual hints of the trench between the two transformer locations. The parking stripes have also been repainted, including over the steel plates. Is this a hint that Target knows that these steel plates are going to be there a long time?
Looks like they also reclaimed the Supercharger pedestals from the jungle, er, I mean the landscaping.Still no transformer, so this site won't meet its 3rd-quarter calendar goal. I'd describe progress as glacial, but that would be insulting to glaciers.
Around the back of the Target store, the pavement has been renewed, hiding the residual hints of the trench between the two transformer locations. The parking stripes have also been repainted, including over the steel plates. Is this a hint that Target knows that these steel plates are going to be there a long time?
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Bruce.
This thread is 3 years old now. I remember thinking they may try to have this charger up and running by black Friday weekend for the holiday shoppers. That was in 2019....
Charged here earlier this afternoon, as shown in this post:
Wiki - Superchargers Visited
There's something about the stall occupancy that's a little weird...in my observation, it seemed like the number of available stalls is correct, but somehow the total number of stalls fluctuates to match the number of available stalls. There really are a total of 10 stalls at this location.
This might possibly be the last new V2 Supercharger location to go on-line.
Bruce.
Wiki - Superchargers Visited
There's something about the stall occupancy that's a little weird...in my observation, it seemed like the number of available stalls is correct, but somehow the total number of stalls fluctuates to match the number of available stalls. There really are a total of 10 stalls at this location.
This might possibly be the last new V2 Supercharger location to go on-line.
Bruce.
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israndy
Supercharger Hunter
Did you count the stall on the other side of the bushes and the one across the parking lot next to the future ChargePoint stalls?
Yeah. In my photo, there are 8 pedestals visible. Plus one at the future ChargePoints (not visible but you can see the car charging there), plus one on the other side of the bushes.
Bruce.
israndy
Supercharger Hunter
Ah, should have scrolled back. Only 8 chargers in that one bank, that explains why the place was full when I got there, that's not a lot of chargers. Glad no one had noticed the one near the CP chargers or I'da hadta wait.
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