pcrow
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The first person to charge there, please post a confirmation. I'm hoping to charge on Saturday. I may call Tesla before driving to confirm that it's operational if I don't hear anything here.
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I sent a request to Google Maps to add the supercharger as a location.
This is brilliant. I was looking at supercharge.info yesterday and noticed that (I think) there are only 4 spots on any east-west interstates left that I cannot manage from coast to coast in my 75D:
1. El Paso, TX - Casa Grande, AZ (I-10)
2. Little Rck, AR - Oklahoma City, OK (I-40)
3. Bloomsburg, PA - Macedonia, OH (I-80)
and
4. the "North Dakota Hole" (I-94)
Other than those, I think I could pick any east-west interstate and drive from Atlantic to Pacific and back, ad infinitum, Forrest Gump electric style.
Then the next day, this thread made its way to supercharge.info and the list was shortened to 3. ;-)
I expect Tesla must be aware of this too, and I hope that means #s 1 and 2 are imminently about to be filled too.
When we might be able to get cross the I-94 may be less certain, but I suppose if Tesla is serious about their alleged "end of 2017" plans, it cannot be too far behind. This is a really cool time to be alive. It's almost like we might get our heads out of our asses and NOT destroy this planet after all.
Some updates to my musings above since July 1st:
1. The El Paso - Casa Grande hole is not yet filled, but there are 3 stations listed on supercharge.info in that hole now, 2 with permits, 1 under construction.
2. The Little Rock - OK hole remains unfilled, even with permitted locations, on supercharge.info. Since my original post, Tesla updated its google maps version of its "coming soon" sites and that resource shows that they plan 3 stations between Little Rock and Oklahoma City, but not until "by the end of 2018". So it looks like nothing will happen on that route in the near future.
3. The PA - OH hole got filled with not just the one station that this thread is about, but in 3 short months it got 2 open stations and 1 more under construction. Hole filled.
4. Ha! Superchargers in North Dakota. Right! Obviously there is nothing there and Tesla says "end of 2018" for every planned station on theI-94 so it looks like that vast expanse will stay unmanageable for the foreseeable future. I guess Tesla was not "serious about their alleged 'end of 2017' plans" after all.
On the up side, since June 2017, the list has been shortened from four to three and looks like it will soon be two.
Some updates to my musings above since July 1st:
1. The El Paso - Casa Grande hole is not yet filled, but there are 3 stations listed on supercharge.info in that hole now, 2 with permits, 1 under construction.
2. The Little Rock - OK hole remains unfilled, even with permitted locations, on supercharge.info. Since my original post, Tesla updated its google maps version of its "coming soon" sites and that resource shows that they plan 3 stations between Little Rock and Oklahoma City, but not until "by the end of 2018". So it looks like nothing will happen on that route in the near future.
3. The PA - OH hole got filled with not just the one station that this thread is about, but in 3 short months it got 2 open stations and 1 more under construction. Hole filled.
4. Ha! Superchargers in North Dakota. Right! Obviously there is nothing there and Tesla says "end of 2018" for every planned station on theI-94 so it looks like that vast expanse will stay unmanageable for the foreseeable future. I guess Tesla was not "serious about their alleged 'end of 2017' plans" after all.
On the up side, since June 2017, the list has been shortened from four to three and looks like it will soon be two.
I was reviewing the map and thought I would post more updates to my comment above.
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This means there remains only 2 Interstate holes, East to West, that a 75D cannot traverse easily on superchargers. (Although it's back up to 3 holes if you break up the North Dakota wasteland into 2 separate pieces, now that there is a permit for Dickson, ND.) With 2 more stations in ND, we could be down to only Little Rock - OK.
I would say the Ozona, TX to Van Horn, TX leg is not possible in a 75D. I just attempted that last month and had to divert up to Midland, TX before heading to Van Horn, TX. The combination of elevation gain and a typical headwind while heading West makes it very sketchy for a 75D to complete.