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Supercharger - Las Vegas, NV - W Flamingo Road (closed / removed)

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Found this on the Nav in the car. A 6 stall 72kW charging station that looks to be near or behind the Rio hotel.

Doesn’t seem to show up on the phone app for charging stations.


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This has a temporary look to it, but I can't figure out what the motivation would be to add a temporary supercharger here.

Is it actually on Rio property? I've parked there a gazillion times and I've never been to this lot.
 
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I think the motivation would be the NFL Draft next weekend, as Matsayz pointed out. If the NFL is using X or Y to shuttle players around between locations it would need a place to change eventually.

Maybe they’ll stay and be permanent, at least until a larger SC is built on the west side of the strip.
 
I think the motivation would be the NFL Draft next weekend, as Matsayz pointed out. If the NFL is using X or Y to shuttle players around between locations it would need a place to change eventually.

Maybe they’ll stay and be permanent, at least until a larger SC is built on the west side of the strip.
They're using Teslas to shuttle players around? I had not heard that. If so, that would make sense. Otherwise I don't see how adding a temporary supercharger to a city that already has 6 superchargers would make much of a difference.
 
Drove by. No one has mentioned it so far but there are a lot of signs that say “Rio Employee Parking Only” on the entrance road into the Parking lot where the SC is.

There is no guard gate or someone checking IDs. So you can still drive in. But I’m thinking maybe this isn’t so permanent.

I don’t think Tesla makes a habit of putting SCs in employee parking lots.
 
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Drove by. No one has mentioned it so far but there are a lot of signs that say “Rio Employee Parking Only” on the entrance road into the Parking lot where the SC is.

There is no guard gate or someone checking IDs. So you can still drive in. But I’m thinking maybe this isn’t so permanent.

I don’t think Tesla makes a habit of putting SCs in employee parking lots.
Don't think they'd put it in the Nav though if it were a restricted lot of some kind. Definitely a curious situation here.
 
It's in the nav, and it's still open. Not sure what the motivation behind the 72kw is...it might be older, repurposed gear. At first, I thought it looked permanent, but I didn't really take a close look at the stations. In the photo, they sort of look temporary. There has been some conduit work done, though the idea of metal conduit about a foot off the ground across a sidewalk doesn't seem up to code. (To be fair, the sidewalk is in the employee lot and doesn't really go anywhere.) So maybe that's another indicator they are temporary?

The really strange part is that it's nowhere near the casino. As someone else mentioned, it's in the employee lot which doesn't seem easy to get to from inside the casino. At best, it's probably a 10 minute walk from the convention center exit, which is itself about a 5-8 minute walk from the casino. On the positive side, even though it's in the employee lot, there's decent signage directing people to the chargers.

I was only getting 48kw starting at around 30%. No one else was around, so I wasn't sharing. Not sure if either of those things are typical for the 72kw chargers. On another note, I started charging around 7:55PM so it was at the peak $0.38 per kwh. I waited a few minutes after 8pm, and the rate did NOT drop. I unplugged and replugged in and got the lower rate ($0.19 per kwh).

It'll be interesting to see how long this is around.

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It's in the nav, and it's still open. Not sure what the motivation behind the 72kw is...it might be older, repurposed gear. At first, I thought it looked permanent, but I didn't really take a close look at the stations. In the photo, they sort of look temporary. There has been some conduit work done, though the idea of metal conduit about a foot off the ground across a sidewalk doesn't seem up to code. (To be fair, the sidewalk is in the employee lot and doesn't really go anywhere.) So maybe that's another indicator they are temporary?

The really strange part is that it's nowhere near the casino. As someone else mentioned, it's in the employee lot which doesn't seem easy to get to from inside the casino. At best, it's probably a 10 minute walk from the convention center exit, which is itself about a 5-8 minute walk from the casino. On the positive side, even though it's in the employee lot, there's decent signage directing people to the chargers.

I was only getting 48kw starting at around 30%. No one else was around, so I wasn't sharing. Not sure if either of those things are typical for the 72kw chargers. On another note, I started charging around 7:55PM so it was at the peak $0.38 per kwh. I waited a few minutes after 8pm, and the rate did NOT drop. I unplugged and replugged in and got the lower rate ($0.19 per kwh).

It'll be interesting to see how long this is around.

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Sometimes the temporary urban chargers are limited to 50kW, so your 48kW could be "normal" for this site.
 
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I think this site is gone. I can’t find anything that looks like Superchargers on a pallet. I did an awful job not matching up the camera angles but this is what it looks like today based on info upthread. Not in Nav or app.

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