Supercharger - Lexington, MA (RT-128 NB service plaza)

[Tdreamer]

Just checked, the Lexington Supercharger is now showing up in the "Location" map in the app (and presumably in-car), and also on the Tesla Website: Lexington, MA (NB) Supercharger | Tesla

 

[dhkaufman]

Just checked, the Lexington Supercharger is now showing up in the "Location" map in the app (and presumably in-car), and also on the Tesla Website: Lexington, MA (NB) Supercharger | Tesla

Oh very cool! I looked earlier today and it wasn't there. (I did notice it showed up on PlugShare around mid-day.) Good to have the location "officially" turned on.

 

[TFCooper3]

I didn't look too closely, but all stalls seemed to be fenced off when I went by this afternoon. Weird.

 

[Bighorn]

Sections of fence have been removed presumably by owners to enable access. I suspect line painting is imminent, so there may be a day or two of chargers being unavailable.

 

[Tdreamer]

Sections of fence have been removed presumably by owners to enable access. I suspect line painting is imminent, so there may be a day or two of chargers being unavailable.

Thanks @Bighorn . Always great to reconnect as you crisscross North America to bless recently hatched Superchargers in the name of the game. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. Safe travels.

 

[ev4m3]

Fences still partly up and lines not yet painted, but charging!

 

[MeesterJim]

It just popped into the map with accurate bay availability just now while I'm charging. I'd like to take credit for that

 

[Paul02474]

Temporary fencing has been partially removed, leaving six of the eight charging slots open.

 

[TimCMass]

I stopped by there today on my way to Burlington. It is supposed to be charging at up to 250 kW but I was getting about 60 kW with 2 other cars charging.. I'm not complaining. Glad to have these superchargers close to where I live

 

[Bighorn]

I stopped by there today on my way to Burlington. It is supposed to be charging at up to 250 kW but I was getting about 60 kW with 2 other cars charging.. I'm not complaining. Glad to have these superchargers close to where I live

It takes a long time for the battery to come up to temp for 250 kW speeds. Local chargers are always going to be slow unless you’re returning from a road trip.

 

[Paul02474]

Full house in Lexington this afternoon.

 

[Bighorn]

Let there be lines. Only the white ones on the ground kind.

 

[North75]

This SC is really popular. I live in Lexington and drive by it all the time. It almost always has at least 3 or 4 stalls filled.
On the other hand I haven’t seen any Ice’ing yet. I figured that was going to be a major problem, so pleasantly surprised on that front.

 

[chjch]

I think being used a lot might help deter ICEing

 

[smahs]

I stopped by there today on my way to Burlington. It is supposed to be charging at up to 250 kW but I was getting about 60 kW with 2 other cars charging.. I'm not complaining. Glad to have these superchargers close to where I live

I had the same issue yesterday. I only got to 60 KW speed. My battery was plenty warm and only at 10% state of charge. The week earlier I went to a different station that was also 250 and I got up to 240 speed. I even tried three stalls in Lexington. I think something is wrong here

 

[Paul02474]

Monday afternoon, four of the Lexington Superchargers were gift-wrapped.

 

[Cryptoengineer]

Monday afternoon, four of the Lexington Superchargers were gift-wrapped.

This Sunday afternoon, all slots appeared operational.

 

[rbbos88]

Jan 2022: stopped by to top up my 2018 M3; only 2 other cars there. Started at 56% and never even reached 40kW rate…??

 

[Big Earl]

Jan 2022: stopped by to top up my 2018 M3; only 2 other cars there. Started at 56% and never even reached 40kW rate…??

Cold battery. It takes 30+ minutes of navigating to a Supercharger for the battery to be warm enough for fast charging. It takes even longer on a single motor car.

 

[Tdreamer]

FYI a few pictures popped up today in various places about construction underway adjacent to the 8 supercharger stalls. A little digging revealed permit E-21-1181 pulled last year shortly after the supercharger permit for "Eversource DC Fast chargers install". So it appears that work is finally getting started now.

EDIT: the contractor doing this work is the same contractor with the permit to do the Newton, MA southbound service plaza work - that permit was pulled a few months after this Lexington permit... draw whatever conclusions you wish.