That will be a great problem to have. It will just lead to more remote Superchargers being deployed.
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Supercharger - Ely, NV
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I talk to the building department. Tesla submitted plans so it is in review. What is good it looks like progress is happening again. They went a long time with nothing with the city.
Utah John
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I know that US-50 has that moniker from the Nevada Tourism Council, but I would give the trophy to US-2, The Highline, as the loneliest road in America. It currently has a 1200 mile SuperCharger deficit, but I also give it the lable of 'coup de gras' for the combustion engine when it is electrified. When that deficit is finally closed, there wont be anywhere you cant easily go in an EV.
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I hope this is accurate with NACS comment. Tesla Seems To Be Focusing On National Park Access With Supercharger Network - CleanTechnica
That's where I've been voting for new chargers.
Not in the article are the 2 new Superchargers on the south side of Great Smokey NP
Probably so, but I wouldn’t put much stock in an article that also refers to “Kalispell, Wyoming”!
Johnny Vector
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Yeah, I stopped reading CleanTechnica a couple years ago when I couldn’t take the sloppiness. It’s bad enough when my local paper doesn’t understand the difference between power and energy, but when a site dedicated to renewables and EVs keeps making that mistake it’s a bad sign for the quality of their reporting.Probably so, but I wouldn’t put much stock in an article that also refers to “Kalispell, Wyoming”!
Fun aside: the word capacity can both correctly mean energy and power, depending on context.
Multiplication in the Reals is transitive, so battery capacity should be measured in hour-kilowatts, so that when lazy, people would say hour-kilos.
Ted'sla
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The old DieHard commercial: "Ely, Minnesota: 34 below." I bet the anti-EV media would REALLY sink their teeth into frozen Superchargers in THAT OTHER ELY.
Was just texting Mark. He said they just pulled their building permits for the stores they're hosting superchargers in Ely, Kemmer WY and Wellington, CO.
They explained to Ridley's that Ely has been slow going because they had to go back to the custom built versions because of the elevations. That was the whole holdup.
They explained to Ridley's that Ely has been slow going because they had to go back to the custom built versions because of the elevations. That was the whole holdup.
Thanks for the update. If I may, there's another "er" needed in "Kemmerer".
I didn't know Ridley's was so extensive across the West, or they're so supportive of EVs:
Welcome to Ridley's Family Markets
Maybe someday, one will be able to charge off nuclear power in Kemmerer, WY
TerraPower Submits Construction Permit Application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the Natrium Reactor Demonstration Project
Seems unlikely. Tesla already has superchargers at higher elevations than Ely.
The more likely scenario is so the design can accommodate the Cybertruck and non Tesla EVs on the network. Pull through style or just having the chargers rotated makes these new use cases much easier
My interpretation of "elevations" is the grade in the parking lot.
From eyeballing the google map and the Comins Lake quadrangle topo map,
there's about a 20 foot drop over 300 or 400 feet run in that area, heading North-ish or East depending on where in the parking lot. That's a 1 in 15 or 1 in 20 drop. Guessing that a pre-fab unit is (a bit more than) 4 units x 8 feet/stall = 32+ feet long, we're talking up to 2 foot difference from one end to the other. Not only would installation be dicey, but I'd suppose free-thaw would walk the unit downhill.
The V3 electronics cabinet would be leaning several inches, enough to make the door or any slide-out equipment annoying to deal with.
As to why - hard to know who the designers are since Ely has a paper-based permit system, but often it's one of the big national engineering firms, and I'd guess somebody in an office far away gave a quick glance at the site via Google Streetview instead of taking a day or two to travel to ("where in the heck is") Ely, Nevada and said "Huh, looks flat to me, pre-fabs will work". If one looks at the pictures from Hamiltony in post #81, particularly the one with the retention basin looking North-ish toward the hotel, it's not readily apparent that the grade is so steep, though if one looks at the background, one might get a clue. It probably wasn't until they got a surveyor out there to give them an "as-built" base for detailed planning that somebody realized pre-fabs weren't going to cut it.
As far as "elevations" meaning height above sea level, that would only affect cooling capacity of the electronics (until one gets way higher - like U2/SR-71, then corona becomes important), but they probably throttle back when they sense high temps anyway (or Vegas/Phoenix/... would have to be permanently derated). The picture I have of (I think) a V3 cabinet label has no altitude rating on it.
MikeRadio
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I can’t wait for these chargers to show up and Ely. It’s just one of the road trips. I want to try to take, but I can’t right now because there’s not even a CCS charger when the supercharger finally opens in Ely, let’s have some big party over there you know, sort of like a tailgate party
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