Supercharger - Kettleman City, CA (LIVE 15 Nov 2017, 24 V2 + 16 V3 stalls, lounge)

[RichardL]

We passed through at around 1pm yesterday and it was around 80% in use. Plenty of chargers including 4 or 5 of the 250s available.

we saw around 600mph briefly!

 

[TT97]

We passed through at around 1pm yesterday and it was around 80% in use. Plenty of chargers including 4 or 5 of the 250s available.

we saw around 600mph briefly!

Were you on the V3 or V2 when you got 600 mph? 150 kW (V2) should get you 600 mph but my screen would top out at 500 mph (although the kW continued to increase). It's been a while since I have supercharged so don't know if that is still the case.

 

[Chuq]

But it's 24 regular and 16 v3 to the best of my knowledge.

Sounds good! Hopefully there is a plan to convert the rest of the stalls, however. Not because there will be a need for 40x stalls running at 250 kW at the same time, but for simplicity - so that it doesn't matter which stall someone goes to. A lot of Tesla owners these days are not obsessively following the forums like us and you may get an SR+ owner at 50% who pulls into a V3 stall, not knowing that there is no real benefit to them, and they are preventing a M3P on 10% from using it.

Hopefully they're doing them in stages, and just ensuring that there are 40x stalls of whatever speed active for the big holiday rushes. Perhaps they'll do another batch between Thanksgiving and Christmas?

 

[RichardL]

Were you on the V3 or V2 when you got 600 mph? 150 kW (V2) should get you 600 mph but my screen would top out at 500 mph (although the kW continued to increase). It's been a while since I have supercharged so don't know if that is still the case.

Naturally, I went for the V3 - but we never saw near 250kW even at 8% charge

 

[tivoboy]

They probably have to do some ramping of both the SC’s and the draw on the grid by time. I could imagine depending on how much is local storage. Vs. direct from grid, they might have to really work to throttle in order not to take over too much local power?

 

[wemetzger]

I got up to 186 kW in my 2016 post facelift Model S. Quite surprised. Did this twice, once on the way up and once on the way back. It was really awesome to get the power boost since I was making a long trip.

 

[sperkin]

I was the only car in the whole row on the side and only charged at 53kW. The row was labeled 250kw.

Will stop by again to see what I get on the way home.

 

[jasonh4451]

The charger is glorious, even when full. The real issue is getting from In N Out to the charger. That took longer today than the actual charge. If you could order ahead and have your burgers delivered by drone, then we would really be in the future.

 

[gnguyen]

It’s 4:50pm Saturday, two block long line to get into the supercharger parking lot.

 

[Big Earl]

It’s 4:50pm Saturday, two block long line to get into the supercharger parking lot.

Pics?

 

[PlayaVista]

As of 5 PM the line is 20+ cars deep. There is one single queue and a person directing charging traffic at the end so there is no choice of v2 vs v3.

Even at 5% SOC I am only getting about 45 kw which is about 200 miles per hour for my LR RWD Model 3.

It is impressive that this place could be pulling 2 megawatts of traffic hourly for hours on end!

 

[gnguyen]

Pics?

 

[K-MTG]

How does it look now? Will be there in an hour 20

 

[Big Earl]

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Thanks for posting. That’s quite a line. Hopefully it’s moving at about one car per minute.

 

[PlayaVista]

Although the in car NAV says we have enough to go to the next SC but looking at the map they all seem to be fairly full so I am guessing most people are charging so they can get to their destination fastest without charging (in our case LA).

The LR 3 RWD is now charging at 85kw. I just did a car count - 27 in line!

Safe travels everyone and be courteous to your fellow Tesla owners!

Tip: if you have handicap parking you may be able to skip the line to the two handicapped parking spots although they look like destination chargers to me.

 

[PlayaVista]

Just left. Now 40 cars waiting. Good luck all. Safe travels.

 

[K-MTG]

Just left. Now 40 cars waiting. Good luck all. Safe travels.

I’m 10 minutes away from Harris Ranch. Will check that out instead of Kettleman.

 

[BM3B]

40 cars in line wow! Assuming an average charge time of 30 min and 40 superchargers, one car should be able to enter every minute or less. So 40 min wait. Too bad you can just leave your car in line to grab a bite or chill inside and use summons to send it to a charger.

 

[K-MTG]

I stopped at Harris Ranch since Kettelman is full. I was first in line when I arrived at Harris Ranch. Have to charge to a 100% to get home from here - currently they are 7 cars in line

 

[AMPd]

Just left. Now 40 cars waiting. Good luck all. Safe travels.

Holy smokies!