Supercharger - Livermore, CA (LIVE 21 Nov 2018, 20 urban stalls)

[mspohr]

Is the transformer in place?
Any speculation on opening?
This would be very useful to me in visiting family in Livermore for Thanksgiving.

 

[sharkbyte119]

Transformer work all looks completed but the electify America stations were still crated.

I'm thinking they want to get this open for black friday and they just may do that .Should be close

 

[nogasoline16]

Thank you, BMAH, for the urban supercharger explanation.
Does not sound like the lower kW will slow charging down too much.

 

[mspohr]

Thank you, BMAH, for the urban supercharger explanation.
Does not sound like the lower kW will slow charging down too much.

My car only charges above 72 kWh when it is at a very low state of charge but it quickly tapers down to 70 or less. Shouldn't add much time to a charging session.

 

[Darksoldier360]

Transformer location is still empty. Wire still hasn’t been pulled to the stalls, so this is going to be a wile yet. I’d guess January. Yes, these are urban chargers, good location for those considering people will be at the mall. Electrify America side still has work to do as well. Won’t see PG&E drop a transformer till both sides are pretty close to done.

 

[mociaf9]

Transformer location is still empty. Wire still hasn’t been pulled to the stalls, so this is going to be a wile yet. I’d guess January. Yes, these are urban chargers, good location for those considering people will be at the mall. Electrify America side still has work to do as well. Won’t see PG&E drop a transformer till both sides are pretty close to done. View attachment 349878

I think this site already has the utility transformer (arrow highlight). You can see it has bollards protecting it (outline highlight). The transformer is usually the only hardware that gets the bollard protection unless the local jurisdiction requires the whole system to have the added protection.

 

[Darksoldier360]

I think this site already has the utility transformer (arrow highlight). You can see it has bollards protecting it (outline highlight). The transformer is usually the only hardware that gets the bollard protection unless the local jurisdiction requires the whole system to have the added protection.

Interesting. Didn’t see that hiding in there. There’s no wire to the charging cabinets yet (conduit is empty into bottom). Also on the other side outside the fencing is a place where it looks like they will be landing a transformer or maybe putting in a large vault for interconnect that’s def still torn up. Pictures from a past visit, but still looks the same.

 

[Darksoldier360]

The fences are coming down. Lots of progress. I would guess there is still upstream utility work because they where digging today at that end, but most of the charger work looks complete.

 

[Jeff N]

There’s no wire to the charging cabinets yet (conduit is empty into bottom).

Yes, there is. It casually looks like there is just empty space and dirt under the charger cabinets but that’s because the wiring is hidden in conduits coming up along the back edge. If you look closely through the ventilation slats you can see the power cables coming up through conduits into the cabinet. It all looks fully wired up to me.

In the photo below, the cabling is coming up the right side of the cabinet base.

Also on the other side outside the fencing is a place where it looks like they will be landing a transformer or maybe putting in a large vault for interconnect that’s def still torn up. Pictures from a past visit, but still looks the same.

Those look like underground wiring access vaults. I still see some plywood covering parts of it so there may be some work left to do.

The Electrify America portion looks pretty close to being done except, unlike the Tesla side, the utility transformer hasn’t been dropped in yet. There are 20 Tesla stalls and 10 Electrify America stalls (7 dual 150 kW, 2 dual 350 kW, and one dual 150 kW CCS & 50 kW CHAdeMO.

The dual CCS/CHAdeMO space and another dual 150 kW CCS space have extra-wide handicapped/van spacing. I’ve been told there is now a California rule about one wide space for every five charging spaces. I saw the same at Recargo’s Prunedale location. I’m not sure why the same isn’t done with the Tesla charging spaces at Livermore.

 

[Pluto]

Can only tell you what EA says and let you make up your own opinion whether it's reasonable. Some cars with CCS have the port on the right of the car. Some have it on the left of the car. They put in the two cables so that they can reach a car's CCS charge port no matter where on the car it's located.

Too bad the EA chargers weren’t on the slimmer island where many of the urban chargers are so people behind the chargers could plug in too...

 

[Darksoldier360]

Yes, there is. It casually looks like there is just empty space and dirt under the charger cabinets but that’s because the wiring is hidden in conduits coming up along the back edge. If you look closely through the ventilation slats you can see the power cables coming up through conduits into the cabinet. It all looks fully wired up to me.

In the photo below, the cabling is coming up the right side of the cabinet base.

That was 6 days ago, and yes it’s been completed since. If you look at the photos with the access panels off you can clearly see the conduits were empty. All in all looks close to complete.

 

[mkhalasi85]

I’m here now and they have 2 destination chargers right behind the electrify America ones. Charging now

 

[Kant.Ing]

AQI is high there. Take care!

 

[Darksoldier360]

AQI is high there. Take care!

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Bio weapon Defence mode ftw. Windows stayed up and I stayed in the car for the pictures this time. The workers not so lucky.

 

[ShannonKJohns]

5am on November 21 - Livermore Superchargers are online.

 

[mspohr]

5am on November 21 - Livermore Superchargers are online.

Great news! I'll be there tomorrow.
Thanks!

 

[bmah]

5am on November 21 - Livermore Superchargers are online.

Thanks for the report, great first post!

Bruce.

 

[ecarfan]

Thanks for your report! Looking back in this thread, the first post showing construction activity was Oct 5th. So it took about 6 weeks before the site went live. That is pretty fast.

5am on November 21 - Livermore Superchargers are online.

 

[nogasoline16]

Agreed, very fast. Great to have a supercharger site near Livermore, which relieves pressure on the Dublin SC.
First pics of construction equipment at this site were posted Sept 13, ten weeks ago. But who's counting? Very fast construction.
Would love to see such an efficient construction team head up to the Mendocino coast for the planned SC there.

 

[ecarfan]

I don’t see this location yet in my car nav.