Supercharger - Manteca, CA - Perimeter Drive (LIVE 12 Feb 2015, expanded 12 Dec 2017, 20 V2 stalls)

[gorgonaut]

Just google the title of the article to get around the paywall. Sounds like the water district serving Manteca wants to become a power company, taking over the PG&E infrastructure in the area.

+1 google-fu like a boss! Discovered this trick a few months ago and now the news is free again!

 

[AV-NUT]

Progress

Looks like the back-fill is done.

There are 4 big crates on site. Does anyone know how many chargers for each of the big crates?

 

[Cottonwood]

Looks like the back-fill is done.
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There are 4 big crates on site. Does anyone know how many changers for each of the big crates?

Each big crate labeled "Supercharger" contains one Supercharger Cabinet; each Supercharger Cabinet can feed 2 charging stalls. That means that this site could have up to 8 charging stalls.

The low boxes probably contain other site items, including the charging pedestals.

 

[jjkroll]

They now have the conduit for all four charger cabinets complete. I bet they also added the eighth charge pedestal conduit as well. Looks like good progress over the last few days.

 

[AV-NUT]

I just noticed the new map no longer shows Manteca as "End of 2014". It now shows "Coming Soon".
I will bet it will take some time to get the utility connections.

 

[AV-NUT]

The crew was working today.
The forms and rebar are in, getting ready for concrete.

 

[CalDreamin]

Thanks for the updates on the Manteca SC :smile:

 

[Benz]

Would be nice if somebody would post a few photo's next.

 

[AV-NUT]

Ok.
This was taken Friday 12/19/14 in the afternoon.

Note the charging controller pad (center) and the utility transformer pad (not framed) to the right.

 

[AV-NUT]

I did get some more info from the forman today.

He noted that two MS owners stopped by today. One was a very enthusiastic new P85D owner.

He did confirm there will be 8 supercharging stations. The 8th one had to be relocated due to some other utilites. It will be in the stall just East of the transformer.

The project has been delayed a few weeks. The precast utility pad will be placed 12/24. Concrete work will follow shortly after. The contract work should be complete by the second week in January.

However, they have no idea when PG&E will be installing the main power tranformer.

Merry Christmas everyone.

 

[mvannah]

Thanks for the update AV-NUT. I won't get my hopes up for our return trip next week. The extended charge/travel time for the Vacaville detour is painful with the family in the car. At least the next time we take the trip to Portland ,the Manteca and Mohave superchargers should eliminate painful supercharger detours to Vacaville and Tejon Ranch.

 

[AV-NUT]

mvannah,
Glad I live close. I did also ask what they were working on next. Bakersfield is next for them.:biggrin:

 

[mvannah]

Great news. Bakersfield would be even better since it is closer to the halfway mark between Barstow and Harris Ranch. Either I mistook the Bakersfield dot for Mohave on the current "coming soon" chargers, or Bakersfield is an up and coming location that hasn't been listed yet.

 

[jjkroll]

I can confirm the precast transformer pad was in place today, 12/24.

 

[Nobueno]

Drove by on 26th. Green screened fencing up... Couldn't view much as it was night time... Kinda exciting.

 

[GRA]

I did get some more info from the forman today.

He noted that two MS owners stopped by today. One was a very enthusiastic new P85D owner.

He did confirm there will be 8 supercharging stations. The 8th one had to be relocated due to some other utilites. It will be in the stall just East of the transformer.

The project has been delayed a few weeks. The precast utility pad will be placed 12/24. Concrete work will follow shortly after. The contract work should be complete by the second week in January.

However, they have no idea when PG&E will be installing the main power tranformer.

Merry Christmas everyone.

I talked to the contractor who was installing some Blink L2s last summer in my (Bay Area) city. He said that PG&E won't schedule anything for less than 5 weeks after the contractor finishes their end. Monitoring the site, it took at least that long for them to come out, so I wouldn't be expecting it to go live before late February at the earliest. Especially this time of year, when storms cause outages and they have to deal with those.

 

[AV-NUT]

Main concrete pad is poured.

 

[AV-NUT]

Saw the chargers in place through the fence as I drove by on the freeway today. I will take photos when I can.

 

[AV-NUT]

Progress

Chargers are ready for the back pour.

 

[SFOTurtle]

Looking good. Thanks for the update.