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

[RennSport]

The sad, naked utility pole still has the cables wrapped around its base. Still awaiting Neversource.

Thanks. I used to live in Lexington (24 years) and will be traveling there with the Y on Columbus Day week. I will be staying in Lexington for a week as well so it would be nice to have the Superchargers available.

 

[Tdreamer]

Thanks. I used to live in Lexington (24 years) and will be traveling there with the Y on Columbus Day week. I will be staying in Lexington for a week as well so it would be nice to have the Superchargers available.

I'm sure it will be ready in "two weeks"

 

[Cryptoengineer]

I checked it yesterday as well. The transformer is in place. The big 'distribution boxes??' are still covered up. The power supply is still incomplete - loose wires, and no meter.

 

[Tdreamer]

The "distribution boxes" are the supercharger cabinets. The wiring within them is likely done already (not 100% sure of course), just waiting for Eversource to do their magic and then have Tesla come by and commission the site. Nobody other than Tesla knows for sure though.

 

[Paul02474]

Only 10 days remaining in Q3.

 

[Zinfandel]

Hooray!
Looks like wiring is complete, although two light posts not yet installed, no meter. Someone was working in cabinet….
I think that Lexington, Woburn, and Stoughton are now ready for commissioning

 

[Tdreamer]

Thanks for the update! But… you need meters to energize and without power Tesla can’t commission.

 

[Zinfandel]

Thanks for the update! But… you need meters to energize and without power Tesla can’t commission.

I have assumed commissioning is a joint effort btw Eversource and Tesla and that Eversource brought the meter to the party. Apologies for the duplicate images, could not find way to delete — maybe the mod can….

 

[Tdreamer]

I have seen a commissioning with the utility and Tesla on-site at the same time a few years back (Framingham) but usually it’s all done before Tesla arrives and they just turn it on within the switchgear cabinet to begin their commissioning process.

 

[Paul02474]

Commissioning process? Sounds like there should be a ceremony.

 

[Tdreamer]

Tesla's terminology for when they do the initial testing, configuration and enablement. They use the term for supercharger sites, and also for their solar products (and who knows what else).

 

[TFCooper3]

It's live. I stopped by just for few minutes at 9:00 this evening. Got about 130KW as the only guy there.

 

[Tdreamer]

It sure is!

@tes-s @MarcoRP

 

[ScoGold]

Not showing up in car or app yet.

 

[dhkaufman]

Agreed! Not on the map yet though.

(@Tdreamer was that you pulling out as I pulled in?)

 

[Paul02474]

It popped up on this map today.

supercharge.info

Zoomable Tesla supercharger map with adjustable range indicator.

supercharge.info

 

[Tdreamer]

Agreed! Not on the map yet though.

(@Tdreamer was that you pulling out as I pulled in?)

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It was. Sorry I didn't say hi.

 

[Tdreamer]

It popped up on this map today.

supercharge.info

Zoomable Tesla supercharger map with adjustable range indicator.

supercharge.info

That's because we told the supercharge.info admins it was live and the flipped it from construction to up.

 

[eladts]

@Chuq @corywright @MarcoRP @tes-s Please update the location of this site to 42.439697, -71.257982.

 

[Tdreamer]

Still isn't showing up in-car, or the Tesla website. Makes me wonder if the site was accidentally left on by either Eversource when they connected the feed, or by the electrical contractor after that happened. As I noted in the Woburn thread, the Tesla commissioning process usually wraps up with them flagging the site as live, which pretty quickly makes it show up in-car (not sure about lag for showing up on Tesla's supercharger website).