Just drove by. Construction has begun! Big fence with black fabric surrounding a large part of the parking lot.
Great to hear! Did you happen to take a picture?
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Just drove by. Construction has begun! Big fence with black fabric surrounding a large part of the parking lot.
@Big Earl, This Bud's for YOU. 'er - pictures I mean. I knew you would ask and we like to deliver when we possibly can.Great to hear! Did you happen to take a picture?
It will be interesting to see if they pour cement or if they have shipped over the precast bases they are using everywhere else. Still need the conduit in the right spot then they just drop the bases right on top and are done.Trenching has started and jigs to hold conduit when they pour cement have been made.
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Spend a little time in the CA supercharger forum. Lots of activity and lots of photos of site builds. Any of the region specific supercharger forums really but CA has so many it has its own forum.Very cool. I hadn’t seen those before. I’ll keep an eye out during my visits.
Why do they need to cross the driveway? That looks like an existing transformer so there might already be a way to tie into the mains there since it is fed from underground.Flew the drone today. Progress on digging area for cabinet pads. Seems like slow progress for how much machinery is here. I’m very curious their plan for crossing the driveway. There is no other way in/out of the parking lot. Probably will have to close the parking lot for a day. Then use temp steel plates which aren’t on site yet.
Ok, couldn’t tell from the pictures so thanks for the longer explanation.The charging cabinets are going in next to the transformer, the posts are going in across the driveway behind the parking spots. Also, I’m guessing they are upgrading that transformer or installing a new one because the trench leads to what I believe is the HECO vault (near the street) according to the dig documentation that @Mrbrock posted.
The property owner has several buildings there on the property. All have solar on them. Good chance he's also going to power the Supercharger site from his own solar array.
We see Kahala Hotel installing Superchargers, and I would suspect they are getting a cut of the proceeds from this effort. And now, here's a private golf course also installing Superchargers. I suspect he too is getting a cut of the proceeds. I could be looking at this backwards too. Could be that these two sites are privately funded, (they bought the Superchargers from Tesla) and could be that Tesla is going to get a cut.
You are probably right about the amount of solar not being enough. I just glanced around the buildings when I was visiting. Its a busy (golf) place. Besides the golf course, they have zip line, driving range, miniature golf and a parttime open cafe. I think there may also be some other small concessions, that I didn't recognize. The parking lot is pretty busy all the times, I past it going to next town. I've don't see golfers Supercharging unless they find someone to move their car after 20-25ish minutes.I'm coming up with around 250 kW of solar arrays on the property. That probably isn't enough to cover100% of their own usage, let alone Superchargers.
I'll be surprised if these sites are anything other than Tesla's standard mutually-beneficial agreement. The host site provides parking spaces and Tesla attracts a captive audience that will likely spend money with the host. Win-win for both parties.