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ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
Well, I’d prefer to not push a 2 to 3 ton Tesla so which ever way this charger is located is great.
I can confirm that there will be 12 stalls going in at the new Toot‘n Totum location in Lubbock. Got that information from a source who works for TNT while we were talking about the newly completed V3 supercharger in Amarillo
Once the permits drop for the US-84 TnT location, we may want to start another thread for it and leave this thread as the Service Center location. Seems like all other Supercharger sites have their own threads, even when in the same city.
tonybelding
Active Member
Agreed. During my Colorado trip last year, the only place I ever had difficulty was the long stretch between Amarillo and Sweetwater. Lubbock would have been right about halfway and made everything easy.
Now get to work on San Angelo, Tesla crew!
And Roswell. Need one there bad to connect Ruidoso.
yeah - the Lubbock charger is nice ... but still not enough to realistically connect to Ruidoso uness you want to sit and slow charge for one hour+ at the McDonalds in Roswell
At least the units at the Roswell McD’s can max out your car’s AC charger, providing the fastest charge possible, given the circumstances. Thanks @nwdiver for installing these!
Maybe I'm old school but this doesn't sound like much of a hardship! Let a happy meal put a smile on your face
And thanks to @nwdiver for installing that charger!
lol I posted before scrolling. We had basically the same thoughts.
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
That would be nice, but the goal was to support all EVs, so they’re 240 volts. As far as I know, only Teslas can support 277 volts.
I've never seen one of those. In fact most of the 80 amp L2s I've seen seem to max out at 208V. I'm not sure why it's 208 instead of 240, but it's common. Still, I can't complain 208V and 72 amp (limited by the car I think) is still a solid 15kW which comes out to around 50 mi/hr in my car. Definitely isn't supercharging, but it feels like you're flying compared to other L2 options.
nwdiver
Well-Known Member
Yep. Blame SAE. I would have loved to have connected those stations to 277v. Thought about 277v with a 240v transformer but it would have just been a bit much and wasn't sure how to account for people using J-adapters not knowing the HPWC was getting fed 277v. Still curious how that would work out....
208 is from 3 phase power. It's 2 legs 120 degrees out of phase and 120v to GND while 240 is 120v to GND and 180 degrees out of phase. That's why 208 is far more common at hotels. That's the other reason 277v would have been great to have as part of the standard. If you have 3 phase power you get 208v or 277v. 240v is rare when the service is fed from 3 phase. So for commercial EV charging it's basically a free 33% boost to charge rate.
Can’t head north from say Pecos, TX to Santa Fe, but rather have to swing way west to El Paso and then catch I-25. Roswell charger would probably solve this.
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
Spoke with the employees while I charged. They said two additional supercharger locations are planned for Lubbock. Once those are operational, the superchargers here will be removed. The employees thought removed meant physically removed but I suggested the most likely outcome is that they'll be removed from the in-car nav, like has happened at many other service center locations.
We're pretty sure one of the locations will be at the soon to be built Toot'n Totum on the SE side of Lubbock at US 84 and TX Loop 289. I don't know where the second site is planned.
The most recent permit movement for that US 84 location was on 6/28. It's still in the planning/development stages, at least as far as I can tell from the permits.
Operator64
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