Supercharger - Malibu, CA (Cross Creek Rd., LIVE 17 Dec 2020, 8 V3 stalls)

[MarcoRP]

I’ve just been informed by @zackmilo that Malibu’s 2nd Supercharger is now under construction at Malibu Village in a collaboration with Electrify America. 8 stalls, V3

Zack on Twitter

 

[ecarfan]

So somewhere in this area?

 

[RipcurlNg]

So interesting, considering the Whole Foods less than a mile away has superchargers as well

 

[mociaf9]

So interesting, considering the Whole Foods less than a mile away has superchargers as well

I mean, yeah, it technically does. But there's a pretty big difference in designed use case between a supercharger with only 5 urban stalls--which is really meant for local users without access to home/work charging--and this one with 8 V3 stalls--which is much more geared towards through travel on PCH.

 

[RipcurlNg]

I mean, yeah, it technically does. But there's a pretty big difference in designed use case between a supercharger with only 5 urban stalls--which is really meant for local users without access to home/work charging--and this one with 8 V3 stalls--which is much more geared towards through travel on PCH.

Ah yes I forgot they were urban chargers. Good call!

 

[treldib]

Drove by last night, took the following pics. Location is behind the Levi’s, behind and to the left of the Broad Street Oyster Co.

 

[SilverSp33d3r]

Drove by last night, took the following pics. Location is behind the Levi’s, behind and to the left of the Broad Street Oyster Co. View attachment 596365 View attachment 596364 View attachment 596366 View attachment 596367

that’s definitely Electrify America equipment on site as well as supercharger concrete bases.

 

[Misterbee]

Drove by today, opaque fencing prevented useful photos. I can confirm the location, more or less the far corner of Malibu Village. Should be a blessing for the locals, and a riot on the summer weekends.

 

[treldib]

Drove by heading west on PCH and you can see the white/red pedestals are up already! Will take pictures later

 

[treldib]

 

[treldib]

I only counted 8 stalls! Looked around a bit, could only find those + the CCS chargers

 

[MarcoRP]

I only counted 8 stalls! Looked around a bit, could only find those + the CCS chargers

Did you expect more? I thought we knew it was 8 since Zack found the sign?

 

[bmah]

Did you expect more? I thought we knew it was 8 since Zack found the sign?

Maybe he was confused by the thread title here, which said "12" for some reason. I probably introduced that while doing some editing. Fixed now.

Bruce.

 

[treldib]

As of tonight 11/6/20

 

[BLKMDL3]

Drove by last night. They look done, but no power to them yet. I tried plugging in

 

[ecarfan]

Walked over to this new site while charging nearby. @zackmilo there is no transformer installed yet so the site doesn’t have power. See the empty pad on the left side of my photo below. It could be weeks before the local utility gets around to installing it. No way to tell how long it will take.

 

[BLKMDL3]

Walked over to this new site while charging nearby. @zackmilo there is no transformer installed yet so the site doesn’t have power. See the empty pad on the left side of my photo below. It could be weeks before the local utility gets around to installing it. No way to tell how long it will take.

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How the heck did I miss that? It’ll be soon hopefully.

 

[ecarfan]

I’m puzzled by the Electrify America chargers at this site. Three charging spaces. One has a 150kW CCS and 50kWCHAdeMO. The other two have 2 150kW CCS chargers each. I don’t understand how one charging space can use two CCS charging cables. Hmm...maybe I should have looked at the CCS cables more carefully; are there two different plug types?

 

[miimura]

I’m puzzled by the Electrify America chargers at this site. Three charging spaces. One has a 150kW CCS and 50kWCHAdeMO. The other two have 2 150kW CCS chargers each. I don’t understand how one charging space can use two CCS charging cables. Hmm...maybe I should have looked at the CCS cables more carefully; are there two different plug types?

Most EA stalls have identical redundant CCS cables. Only one car can be charged at a time for each pedestal.

 

[mociaf9]

I’m puzzled by the Electrify America chargers at this site. Three charging spaces. One has a 150kW CCS and 50kWCHAdeMO. The other two have 2 150kW CCS chargers each. I don’t understand how one charging space can use two CCS charging cables. Hmm...maybe I should have looked at the CCS cables more carefully; are there two different plug types?

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Nope, there's really 2 identical CCS plugs on those. The official answer for why some are dual CCS is so that they can easily serve cars with CCS ports in any location on the car. Don't need to worry that different makes put the charging ports on different sides or at different ends of the car, one of the cables will always reach. They could have achieved this with longer cables but those cost more upfront and have additional maintenance issues as they get damaged more frequently. Of course, there's also my unofficial opinion that the goal was to restrict the entire station to a single CHAdeMO plug and thereby significantly advantage/benefit EV brands that use CCS, like VW, and that the official explanation is just a semi-plausible excuse.

Lots of discussion of this the threads on EA chargers: Electrify America Fast Chargers - Huh?