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Supercharger - Gloucester, MA
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I appreciate the updates. Coming to town mid-July. Maybe it will just be operational by then. Maybe not!
Sunday update. More site work complete. One smallish pallet of Tesla gear on-site with more to come. End of July is the likely earliest for this site to be open I think.
Slow going. Excavation coming along with pavement cuts done and utility trench begun.
Sunday update - forms for the supercharger pads underway and work continues on the trench to the transformer with some conduit already in place. No sign of any Tesla gear other than the one cabinet that was delivered earlier.
And per a conversation with a Tesla Energy employee working on preparing the Burlington supercharger for commissioning in a few weeks, equipment for Gloucester is expected to be delivered late this week.
A late night/early morning visit to Gloucester revealed the following... no additional equipment onsite yet, but the supercharger and transformer pads are taking form, and the trench feeding power to the site is progressing in the right direction.
They are not working 24-7?
Thanks for checking out the progress.
We wish... this crew commutes in daily from home, so likely has fewer hours on the job vs. other sites where crews hotel for the week. Can't be sure (they put in fewer working hours onsite) in fairness to the crew doing this job - but seems likely.They are not working 24-7?
Today the crew finished up the first leg of the utility trench and backfilled. Not sure what other work due to lighting conditions and the quick visit last night. No new Tesla equipment delivered today that I could see. Hopefully next week as they'll they're probably ready to start doing the pedestal bases and conduit already.
Tuesday update. Tesla equipment on-site. Pedestal bases in the process of being installed. Supercharger and transformer forms looked done awaiting concrete poor.
Many thanks for keeping us posted! Exciting to see this progress move toward completion. Will make visiting for any length of time much more convenient.
Sort of related... for those looking for L2 charging in the area - the newish YMCA adjacent to the Gloucester Crossing shopping center has a bunch of ChargePoint stations. They tend to be fairly open during the day, but busier at night as a bunch of people that live in the nearby apartment complex charge there overnight (great to see!).
Rockport installed some L2 public charging last year. Six plugs downtown in the resident only lot at town hall (EV charging exempted from resident restriction) and at the park-and-ride lot as you come into town. They are just now installing the final set of L2 plugs on Atlantic Ave at the Headlands, about a ten minute walk from downtown. As of this past weekend the pedestals were in, but still bagged (waiting for utility hookup perhaps?). The locations are listed on the Rockport EV Charging web page, and are/will be on PlugShare and ChargePoint sites too.
Now, if we can just get some CCS DC fast charging added to Gloucester Crossing to cover non-Tesla demand.
Nice to see public charging options finally coming to this area which had previously been a charging wasteland.
Rockport installed some L2 public charging last year. Six plugs downtown in the resident only lot at town hall (EV charging exempted from resident restriction) and at the park-and-ride lot as you come into town. They are just now installing the final set of L2 plugs on Atlantic Ave at the Headlands, about a ten minute walk from downtown. As of this past weekend the pedestals were in, but still bagged (waiting for utility hookup perhaps?). The locations are listed on the Rockport EV Charging web page, and are/will be on PlugShare and ChargePoint sites too.
Now, if we can just get some CCS DC fast charging added to Gloucester Crossing to cover non-Tesla demand.
Nice to see public charging options finally coming to this area which had previously been a charging wasteland.
Great update on the L2's.
As for the CCS chargers they are also good backup locations for Tesla's. I had a >200kW charge session at EA in our Model Y the other week.
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