Supercharger - Fort Stockton, Texas

[BerTX]

The TxDOT rest stop west of Ft. Stockton? I sure hope not. It's just a bathroom, water fountain, and picnic table in the middle of nowhere.

I think this is a new rest stop 26 miles West of Fort Stockton. With a price tag of $23 million, I would hope it's a decent place.

 

[charliepmayer]

.......been under construction for a year or more. I guess we could sit and watch the flares while we charge.

 

[bollar]

Unfortunately, TxDOT is apparently not able to have third parties place facilities at their rest stops. There has been a lot of work undertaken to electrify the Triangle with CHAdeMO / SAE and the TxDOT rest stops seem like obvious locations. The regional councils of governments leading the effort haven't made progress trying to get access.

 

[plugzinSD]

Similar deal in California with CALTRANS. Although, I can think of one exception near Escondido in North San Diego County, for "Blink". Yes, they would otherwise seem to be obvious choices.

 

[nwdiver]

This is the Flying J on the North side of Fort Stockton looking North. Probably not a Supercharger but hope springs eternal.... The spool that they're feeding into the trench isn't wire... might be conduit..... I dunno....

 

[Alphacrux]

According to google maps, it looks like there are 8 parking spots at that location. Would make for a good 8 stall supercharger. Subway nearby. Worth keeping an eye on.

 

[Alphacrux]

Fort Stockton and I-10 completion in Arizona and New Mexico can't come fast enough. We recently completed a trip to San Diego in the P90D and it was very annoying to have to detour north to i40. Tesla, are you listening?

 

[Mueller]

I'm heading to Alpine the 1st week of July and I'll be installing a 14-50R plug at a vacation rental home in Alpine. I can make Alpine from Ozona but tired of waiting on Fort Stockton. We contacted Tesla about having a destination charger at the home since it is available for rental day or week. Tesla said they weren't doing destination charging stations at vacation rentals. This should open up a number of day time trips from Alpine while charging when you spend the night. The vacation rental can be checked out at alpinewindmillhouse.com As I said it won't be available for charging until the middle of July if all goes well.

 

[charliepmayer]

Thank you Mueller.

 

[DriverOne]

That's a great location, ensure you add it to Plugshare!

 

[Alphacrux]

Tesla, if you want to incentivize us to buy new vehicles to get free supercharging, please add the superchargers! I.e., please finish I-10..

Btw, my recent trip from Austin to San Jose and San Diego was great. Superchargers worked great, mostly conveniently located, etc. no lines, except in mountain view and San Diego. And met a lot of nice tesla owners.

 

[charliepmayer]

Chamber of Commerce no help today. Trying Fort Stockton Economic Development Corporation next.

This would be a lot easier if Tesla just told us what they know. Do not understand the silence.

Charlie

 

[nwdiver]

This would be a lot easier if Tesla just told us what they know.

Where's the fun in that?

 

[charliepmayer]

Received a call from the Fort Stockton Development Corporation - associated in some way with the Chamber of Commerce I think.
No new news - they assisted Tesla with the permits and other issues, but they knew nothing about any changes to the original plan.
I suspect legal/easement issues with the hotel. I did ask Tesla for an explanation. Completion of this site was originally scheduled for the end of what, 2015?. This is embarrassing when I try to explain it to my ICE friends.

 

[Alphacrux]

On a lark, I called Fairfield inn by Marriott to see if they knew anything. The clerk who answered didn't know anything. I asked to talk to a manager, but was dumped into voicemail.

 

[charliepmayer]

I inquired on the Tesla website and directly to [email protected]. Received only the standard boilerplate responses.

 

[nwdiver]

I stopped by the new rest area ~20 miles West of Fort Stockton that the new supercharger is rumored to be headed to... gonna be a while if the rumors are true... I was told 3-4 months before it's open. There is power available (some rest areas are miles from power, this isn't like that). There also isn't an overpass... there's a separate rest area for W and E traffic so there would need to be bays on both sides...

I also visited the Flyings Js I had seen activity at before... whatever it was it's gone now... No activity at the Fairfield the permit was originally pulled for either....

 

[brkaus]

Can't exactly see TXDOT having a supercharger in state property.

 

[plugzinSD]

Yes, and difficult to see Tesla incurring the cost for two separate supercharging sites to essentially service one location.

 

[charliepmayer]

Maybe we can get some answers if we all send a polite inquiry to; [email protected]