Supercharger - Fairbanks, AK

[Big Earl]

Ester, Alaska has been identified as an upcoming NEVI-funded site.

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/attachments/alaska-nevi-1st-round-jpg.1010971/

Please keep an eye out for permits, dig tickets and construction. I'm presuming 8 stalls, but some clarification would be great if anyone has better info.

 

[electrons4u]

Just today I spotted the 4 permits between Anchorage and Fairbanks on the supercharge.info map. With a little in-browser webdev tools twiddling, I came up with this map of all 4:

 

[PStewart]

Just today I spotted the 4 permits between Anchorage and Fairbanks on the supercharge.info map. With a little in-browser webdev tools twiddling, I came up with this map of all 4:

The sites were added to supercharge.info in Permit status based only on the NEVI funding info. Not for any actual local permits. I requested they be added at Supercharger - Trapper Creek, AK

 

[Big Earl]

The sites were added to supercharge.info in Permit status based only on the NEVI funding info. Not for any actual local permits. I requested they be added at Supercharger - Trapper Creek, AK

Correct. We haven't seen any actual permits yet, but the NEVI funding information was enough for me to add them to the map. The "Permit" pin is not a strict indication of permits having been issued.

 

[M CARLING]

To clarify, NEVI funding has been approved for these four sites according to the Alaska Energy Authority, which expects them to be built in 2024.

 

[AudubonB]

I commented on the Trapper Ck. thread about these locations. For here: as I used to live outside Ester (hard by right next to Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn, for those of you who know your Alaskana ), anything that happens in Ester is A Good Thing.

But more to the point: Ester (or Gold Hill, much of a muchness), Nenana, Healy, Cantwell and Trapper Ck (or the "junction" - close enough) were exactly my suggested locations to Tesla for SpC sites......10 years ago. I'm beginning to get a RipVanWinkleness about me....

I seem to be mistaken about Healy: no site there yet has popped up. Or has it just not yet hit the .info page?

 

[Guacahummus]

Marco posted this accidentally last year meant for Clark, NJ. He never posted a follow up and I wasn't able to get plans for it when I asked the city of Fairbanks. As far as I can tell, Fairbanks doesn't extend as far as where the Ester pin is, but the zip code is the same. Not sure its much help posting this, but did want to post it for historical reasons. Maybe this will trigger someone else to find more info.

 

[Big Earl]

According to Google, the Supercharger location in Ester actually has a Fairbanks address. I debated what to call it and settled on Ester since it’s so far out of Fairbanks. We can change it when Tesla publishes the official name. I suspect these are one and the same.

 

[AudubonB]

Honorary Esteroid here:

Please call it Ester. We, every resident of the city of Fairbanks, every resident of the Fairbanks-North Star Borough, almost every resident of Alaska and even some residents of Anchorage know what and where Ester is and the difference between it and the Big Smoke 5 miles to its east. Eventually, downtown Fbx will get one just as cities down in the lesser-48 also have.

Were you to call it the Fairbanks SpC that would be tantamount to calling the Sparks one "Reno."

 

[Mrbrock]

From the FNSB website:
Do I need a building permit before starting construction?
Building permits are only required within the City of Fairbanks (phone: 907-459-6720) and City of North Pole (phone: 907-488-8593). Since the FNSB has not adopted a building code, building permits are not required in the Borough at-large outside of these two cities. However, a zoning permit may still be required whether within or outside of the city limits and, if commercial, you may still be required to get approval by the State Fire Marshal.

If those sites are outside the city limits, we may not see any permitting before construction.

 

[AudubonB]

Ah, yes: the State Fire Marshal. He (there never has been a She) wields outsized power in less-than-organized parts of Alaska.

 

[Mrbrock]

Ah, yes: the State Fire Marshal. He (there never has been a She) wields outsized power in less-than-organized parts of Alaska.

No fire permits at any of the listed sites relating to superchargers. A few alcohol licenses but not much else.

 

[1FrostySlime]

Correct. We haven't seen any actual permits yet, but the NEVI funding information was enough for me to add them to the map. The "Permit" pin is not a strict indication of permits having been issued.

Since the "planned" indication was added last week wouldn't it make more sense for these to be under "planned" rather then "permited"

 

[Big Earl]

Since the "planned" indication was added last week wouldn't it make more sense for these to be under "planned" rather then "permited"

Yeah, probably.

 

[1FrostySlime]

Looks like this charger moved to 3040 parks highway at some point according to Marco on twitter to a spot closer to fairbanks (yes the initial post of the 48 stalls was an april fools day joke but as shown in the thread the location and everything thereafter is not)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1774869509834465393

https://twitter.com/x/status/1774875258673311927

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775192601286635708

 

[AudubonB]

I’m not sure I understand the prior several sets of location comments, April Fool or no. 3040 Parks is still the Gold Hill Tesoro, which is what this thread had presented all along, ¿no?

For further…..color…: When I was amongst the shiftless/homeless, I lived with two malamutes in an insulation-deprived ancient slide-in camper about 150 yds to the ESE of this site, behind one of the industrial warehouses in that location. One lot east of the Blue Loon (where I was a bouncer, as I’ve noted somewhere on TMC).

 

[Big Earl]

3040 Parks is the Three Bears location to the east. I’ve updated the supercharge.info location and changed the site name to Fairbanks.

 

[Mrbrock]

3040 Parks is the Three Bears location to the east. I’ve updated the supercharge.info location and changed the site name to Fairbanks.

F. Y. Earl Blvd

 

[alpinehijinx]

F. Y. Earl Blvd

Brutal, huh? He calls out the Elon cultists and the transphobics and that's what he gets in return? Tough crowd anymore.

It does make more sense that it'd be at 3 Bears since they very likely have a corporate MOU at this point. This gives me hope that Tok (shown on one of Teslas recent voting maps) will get built too and that'd be the obvious location choice.

 

[Tacoma Dave]

Brutal, huh? He calls out the Elon cultists and the transphobics and that's what he gets in return? Tough crowd anymore.

It does make more sense that it'd be at 3 Bears since they very likely have a corporate MOU at this point. This gives me hope that Tok (shown on one of Teslas recent voting maps) will get built too and that'd be the obvious location choice.

Tok would be a great spot. I definitely voted for that one.