Per Marco, 8 V3 stalls at Valero station on 99 north of Bakersfield.
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Supercharger - McFarland, CA (permit found, 8 V3 stalls)
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ElectricCyclist
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Thats great news finally another Supercharger on the 99 Fwy in this area I would have liked to have seen Delano but who knows maybe that is coming in the future.
cpa
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Losthillsguy
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Worried about spots being ICE'd there. Seems the superchargers would take up over half of the existing parking spots
Losthillsguy
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I sent an email with an inquiry about this to the Kern County Planning Department. They received my message and will get back to me. This is an important one for me. I currently have to detour 20 miles south to Buttonwillow on Interstate 5. This would make it a straight shot for me.
Mrbrock
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Losthillsguy
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For east west traffic on Hwy 46 the new supercharger at Lost Hills is being built next to Dennys.
Pluto
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It looks like Marco has discovered and unscrupulously shared the permit with @supercharge.info here: New Supercharger along Highway 99 Ca
Here is a screenshot of the permit:
Here is a screenshot of the permit:
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cpa
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Tesla needs to have better reconnaissance when labeling Supercharger locations. Yes, this location is more than likely has a post office address of McFarland. But for those of us who have traipsed up and down this Valley since Hector was a pup, this junction is known as Famoso.
Back in the day before the interstate highways became the rage, the east-west highway that merged onto US99 here was old US466. (For those of you movie buffs, US466 was where James Dean met his demise in 1955 in his Porsche at the junction with SR41 near Cholame, but I digress.)
Since California renumbered and/or truncated a lot of their federal highways in 1964, US466 morphed into SR46. But that junction is still Famoso to many of us.
But with Tesla I know that I am talking to the wind. [Sigh.]
Back in the day before the interstate highways became the rage, the east-west highway that merged onto US99 here was old US466. (For those of you movie buffs, US466 was where James Dean met his demise in 1955 in his Porsche at the junction with SR41 near Cholame, but I digress.)
Since California renumbered and/or truncated a lot of their federal highways in 1964, US466 morphed into SR46. But that junction is still Famoso to many of us.
But with Tesla I know that I am talking to the wind. [Sigh.]
Pluto
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From what I can tell, it was Kern County that renamed the locality in the permit to McFarland. It originally listed Famoso (unless Marco took a screenshot after modifying the webpage).
Sometimes the official names don't even matter because people make up their own. They sound like episodes from "Friends", so for example "The one by Home Depot" (Pleasanton), "The one by Benihana" (Concord - Diamond Blvd.), "The one with the lounge" (Kettleman City), "The one across the road" (Kettleman City - Bernard Drive).
So I'm sure people are going to come up with some nickname for McFarland or whatever it winds up being called by Tesla.
Bruce.
Mrbrock
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The address for the fuel station is MacFarland. The name of the Valero is Famoso Fuel Stop but the address is also MacFarland. Tesla will call this MacFarland because that’s the city in the address. If plans Become public, it’ll have the station name on the first page.
cpa
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Actually, "Hollister" is really Casa de Fruta. Gardnerville, Nevada should be Topaz Lake or Holbrook Junction. But I doubt that they have post office addresses that correspond to the traditional place names.
Those are the two off the top of my head, but I am certain that there are others.
Early on, Tesla named Harris Ranch (not Coalinga--that name came with the second installation) and Tejon Ranch (not Arvin, the post office address) after the locally-known place names.
I'll give Tesla a pass on Firebaugh. There are no cities along Interstate 5 between the SR152 junction and Kettleman City. Mendota might be a tad closer, but the PO probably doesn't cover that far SW.
Mrbrock
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I’d rather see a street name than a town that is a long ways away. Without looking at a map, I think of Firebaugh as CA33, not I5. If I went to McFarland to charge heading out of Bakersfield, I’d completely blow past this site. Just because the car routes you to places doesn’t mean the names don’t need to make sense. Not everyone enters destinations when driving.
Mrbrock
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This is still in plan review. Some corrections have been issued and waiting for Tesla to resubmit as of 7/16/23.
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