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Supercharger - Lakewood, CO (Colorado Mills)

Discussion in 'Mountain/Southwest Supercharger locations' started by MorrisonHiker, Jan 29, 2020.

  1. MorrisonHiker

    MorrisonHiker S 100D 2021.4.11

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    #1 MorrisonHiker, Jan 29, 2020
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    After seeing no progress on Wheat Ridge and figuring Colorado Mills would be a good location, we scoped out the lot and somehow missed 16 stalls under construction! We were 50 feet away and missed the construction because they were on the other side of a brick wall.

    The 16 stalls are located along the parking garage to the north of the Electrify America chargers.

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    @MarcoRP or @Chuq , please add! Thanks!
     
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  2. MarcoRP

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    Whaaaaat!? Great find, will add.
     
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    I'm impressed that you missed that :)
     
  4. MorrisonHiker

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    Unbelievable, really. We eat at a restaurant nearby every Saturday and saw three movies at the nearby theater in the past month and parked in the parking garage. We looked at the Electrify America chargers last week and were 50 feet away but a wall for their equipment blocked our view. When we checked out the hotel, we were right on the other side of them. This was on the one road in the shopping center we didn't go on. :oops:
     
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    Hmm I wonder if these will be in place of the wheat ridge superchargers since this is Lakewood.
     
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  6. MorrisonHiker

    MorrisonHiker S 100D 2021.4.11

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    Most likely. I was thinking last week that we haven't seen anything in Wheat Ridge in really two years of waiting. This seems like a better spot.
     
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    #7 rdlink, Jan 30, 2020
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    Depends on where you live. :)

    I rarely go to CO Mills. But with this SC coming online maybe we'll have dinner at Los Chignones and YardHouse some while using up our referral free SC miles. I suppose this location will give more and possibly better dining options for through travelers than Applewood for the time being. But neither place is exactly easy off-easy on.

    I see it showing up as a V3 on Supercharge.info. Are we sure it is?
     
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    Well, the plug cables do look really skinny in the photos above so I'd guess it’s a V3.
     
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    I agree. Looks like it will be v3 to me. They still have a lot of construction equipment and fencing up so we couldn't see everything easily. Security drove by when we were checking things out so we weren't able to get as many pictures as we would've liked.
     
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    man that looks like tight parking! I forsee some door dings there for sure.
     
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    So much for my daily scouting trips around Applewood to get the scoop (part of my commute anyway).

    This is a better location anyway. More restaurants, a mall and hotels nearby. While the on/off from I-70 at Denver West might be longer, it's a diamond interchange and much simpler than the weirdness that is Applewood.

    It also makes sense because Simon Properties (owner of Colorado Mills) has been locating chargers at their malls for many years.
    https://www.simon.com/electric-vehicle-charging-stations

    Thanks for all the legwork!
     
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    Great find !
     
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    Right next door to Twin Peaks. Perfect. The wife loves that place.
     
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    You can also tell they are v3 because there is no silver circle where the cables connect to the handles.
     
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    I so could have used that this past month but now that my garage is just days away from having L2 charging, I will probably never need this one. Still this and Idaho Springs are going to be a big help for the I-70 travelers because the Silverthorne and Airport ones are not that convenient. Silverthorne just has such elevation gain from Denver that the 80 mile gap going west is more like 150 miles in terms of battery usage.
     
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    Yeah, this should relieve the pressure on the supercharger off I-70 & airport blvd.

    Denver & Idaho springs gotta have one of the highest densities of v3 supercharger once this is all said and done, no?
     
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    Had no idea that these were planned much less installed. Here’s a look from tonight.
     

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    We stopped by yesterday as well. The wind gusts yesterday blew down a lot of the temporary fencing so it was easier to see things. The Superchargers are in a row of 11, then a walkway to the lower level of the parking garage and then 5 more Superchargers. The other electrical equipment is behind a newly built concrete block wall and there is a large transformer to the south of that. In the future, there's room where they could potentially add 12 more stalls between the Tesla spots and the Electrify America spots.

    They have signs up for the 11 stalls that indicate they are only for Tesla charging, so no shared spots. :) Hopefully the other 5 spots will have the same signs and not be shared. There's tons of parking and no reason to have shared parking at this location. We went in the parking garage and in the upper levels, Autonation is storing hundreds of Jeep Grand Cherokees on multiple levels.
     
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    Here's a picture from Sunday showing how things are laid out.
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    Looks like they will probably have to repaint the lines to line up with the stalls better.
     
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    Is that Jason’s Model 3 on top of the parking garage?
     

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