Supercharger - Hood River, OR

[acarney]

Much cheaper lot just a little East in Rufus, OR.

100 1st St, Rufus, OR 97050 | Zillow

Zestimate® Home Value: $0. 100 1st St, Rufus, OR. It contains 0 bedroom and 0 bathroom. The Rent Zestimate for this home is $1,099/mo, which has increased by $1,099/mo in the last 30 days.

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Looks to be very easy access to the interstate and not THAT far detour when traveling HWY 97… $329k.

Very interesting idea, but I don’t see any guarantee that Tesla would deploy a supercharger there or allow the franchising of superchargers. If you could guarantee deployment I could potentially see a “Oregon Friends of Tesla” group or something purchasing land and getting superchargers deployed. Maybe setup the group in conjunction with an owners group and solicit financial contributions from owners… Possibly the end goal could be to sell the location in a few years once established to someone that plans to build some kind of income generating business (restaurant, convenience store, coffee stand, etc). Ideally you could provide data on amount of cars visiting the site, average time there, and maybe even some generalized demographic information about the owners.

If we truly believe EV adoption is the way of the future (I suspect everyone here and willing to go into an endeavor like this does), than you could also expand that to CCS based quick chargers and almost guarantee a customer base in the next five years or so. If successfully selling the property the group could roll any profits back into supporting superchargers by hosting more remote locations that might get forgotten by Tesla… or maybe five years down the road it could go more to funding an “adopt a supercharger” type situation where trash service is added to locations, etc.

Obviously it would be great is Tesla took this all on, but if any owners group was going to do something like this, Tesla owners seem like the ones to figure it out… all hedges on ensuring a supercharger build though, otherwise you’re just buying an empty lot…

 

[Ml007]

Tesla's website has updated to say Q4 2021 for this pending location.

 

[12XU]

HERE WE GO!
Going in somewhere next to the Safeway

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[MarcoRP]

Next!! 811 ticket filed for Hood River at the Cascade Commons, could be in the Safeway or Rite Aid parking lot.

 

[Quigibo]

Based upon the GPS coordinates in the post (45.70964 -121.53460), it looks like:

 

[AudubonB]

Oh frabjous day! Calloo Callay!

To be done with The Dalles for good.

 

[wdolson]

I just noticed the permit today on supercharge.info. This will be a relief going east on I-84. The Dalles is a major choke point.

 

[Texas Flood]

The downside to this location is that this parking lot gets pretty full. I was in Hood River for a couple weeks this summer. I went to the Safeway a couple times and had to park in the spots along Cascade. I drove by on several more occasions and it looked just as crowded. Too bad they didn’t put it in the Walmart lot near the EA chargers - that lot is pretty large and was never more than half full.

 

[wdolson]

Across the parking lot from the Walmart is also an excellent Mexican restaurant. One of the few that was almost as good as my partner's Mexican cooking. She's very picky about Mexican restaurants and rated that one as one of the best she's had in the NW.

 

[12XU]

From the Portland FB group, a reporter named Derek Wright snapped photos showing that construction has started!

 

[finman100]

Yes!!!! to the nth degree! yes, to be done with The Dalles will be heaven.

So very exciting to continue to see Supercharger expansion and fill in spots. wow.

Thank you to all who keep track of these and post updates. Much appreciated!

 

[finman100]

What happened to Boardman? something between Kennewec, WA and this new Hood River, OR would be another superYay.

 

[finman100]

Kennewick. sorry, Washingtonians, my bad.

 

[agegamon]

to be done with The Dalles will be heaven.

Agreed. It was fine back in 2017 (or even earlier, it was opened in 2014 when there were practically no teslas) when you could always roll up and charge, but multiple times in the last 2 years I've had to wait for people (who are inevitably trying to get all the way to 95%+ LOL). Then, even when you get a stall you're at reduced rates, so you end up hogging a stall for a long time.

That said, I'm not sure I actually want them to shut the Dalles down. It'd be a good emergency backup, or a good alternate stop if you need to charge all the way up to 90%+ SOC once this charger is open.

I don't know the details behind Boardman, other than some speculation about it in the Troutdale SC thread. That said, think that focusing on this charger makes more sense. Boardman might be too far if you're leaving Portland with low SOC, and that'd normally just drive more traffic towards the Dalles. Instead, even if you don't stop at Troutdale, you could make it here with relatively low SOC from Portland, and jump on to tri-cities or Pendleton.

 

[RobertSeattle]

Agreed. It was fine back in 2017 (or even earlier, it was opened in 2014 when there were practically no teslas) when you could always roll up and charge, but multiple times in the last 2 years I've had to wait for people (who are inevitably trying to get all the way to 95%+ LOL). Then, even when you get a stall you're at reduced rates, so you end up hogging a stall for a long time.

That said, I'm not sure I actually want them to shut the Dalles down. It'd be a good emergency backup, or a good alternate stop if you need to charge all the way up to 90%+ SOC once this charger is open.

I don't know the details behind Boardman, other than some speculation about it in the Troutdale SC thread. That said, think that focusing on this charger makes more sense. Boardman might be too far if you're leaving Portland with low SOC, and that'd normally just drive more traffic towards the Dalles. Instead, even if you don't stop at Troutdale, you could make it here with relatively low SOC from Portland, and jump on to tri-cities or Pendleton.

Many of us in the Seattle area enjoy the Seattle-Bend route through Yakima (when time is not the priority) so would prefer the Dalles stay open too!

 

[sweet8]

Some of us have SR or SR+ and can't make it to Hood River in the winter. Preferably, another one halfway between Hood River and Kennewick would be nice.

 

[PLUS EV]

Some of us have SR or SR+ and can't make it to Hood River in the winter. Preferably, another one halfway between Hood River and Kennewick would be nice.

Well, as far as I know, they aren't removing the Dalles.

 

[sweet8]

Well, as far as I know, they aren't removing the Dalles.

That's good. Just hoping to see another one in between. I'm not a fan of checking the weather to see what the wind speeds are.

 

[Rocky_H]

So very exciting to continue to see Supercharger expansion and fill in spots. wow.

Sigh. And just yesterday I had to futz around with my CHAdeMO adapter, and 6 or 7 tries to get a Greenlots station working in McDermitt, Nevada at the end of our 1,800 mile vacation, because Tesla still won't put anything between Winnemucca and Boise.

 

[Ml007]

Reports from some Hood River locals on Facebook that holes are in the ground for this and two wrapped up white boxes nearby that say Tesla Energy on them on site. Site is still taped off and torn up.