Supercharger - Menlo Park, CA (LIVE 21 Nov 2019, 18 urban stalls)

[bxr140]

I’ve been annoyed with the construction effort going on at the Sharon Park plaza (off San Hill) over the past few weeks.

Showed up for our morning Starbucks today and was pleasantly surprised to see the construction is for an urban supercharger site. Looks almost complete. It’s in the back, on the other side of Starbucks from the main parking lot. They had to pull power from the other side of Safeway!

 

[bmah]

Menlo Park...well that location isn't going to get a lot of use.

Bruce.

 

[SMAlset]

Oh so west of the Stanford Shopping Center and Stanford U. and near the Accelerator Lab. Yeah definitely not going to be a popular location . Gives people traveling 280 a convenient place not far from it to exit and charge. The 280 corridor has been kind of ignored playing more to 101 traffic in that part of the Peninsula. I am glad to see more SC locations coming on line this year.

 

[EVie'sDad]

Oh so west of the Stanford Shopping Center and Stanford U. and near the Accelerator Lab. Yeah definitely not going to be a popular location . Gives people traveling 280 a convenient place not far from it to exit and charge. The 280 corridor has been kind of ignored playing more to 101 traffic in that part of the Peninsula. I am glad to see more SC locations coming on line this year.

Tbh the distance between san jose and rohnert park is so small that on 280 i was easily able to skip all the chargers between in my SD85 even at 80 percent charge, but 280 could use a little attention for those out of towners that find themselves in a bind.

 

[ReddyLeaf]

Ok, another SC just popping up while thousands of Teslas drive by daily.
@BlueShift

So, somewhere near here? Google Maps

 

[ken830]

Definitely going to be a lot of Teslas around. I used to work at SLAC and I ordered the Model S in Sept 2012. But by the time I took delivery in Feb 2013, there were already 3 or 4 others before me.

 

[bxr140]

So, somewhere near here? Google Maps

Yep. Technically the back row along the trees and not the front row along the buildings, but...

 

[SMAlset]

This location is at 325 Sharon Park Dr., Building Permit BLD2018-00562, Parcel 074283010, Date issued 04/03/2019, est. value $150,000

Installation of (5) Tesla charging cabinets, (10) Tesla charging ports, (1) QED switchgear assembly and (1) pedestrian light fixture

Latest progress status:

 

[MarcoRP]

Not like this info really matters, but once complete, this will be nearest (public) Supercharger to Tesla’s Headquarters!

 

[Owner]

I go this little strip mall every few months. I was wondering about that build out in my favorite (not so secret) place to park. The regular part of that parking lot is super strange and a pain to get in and out of, so I got in the habit of using the back of this little mall.

Interesting location. Not that I'd ever actually charge there (except to add to my tally - 140)....

I had noticed that construction and wondered...

What's there:
Starbucks, CVS, small Safeway, yogurt shop, Japanese restaurant, deli, hair cut place, liquor store, shoe repair, travel agent, UPS, a hat store, and a BofA through the currently closed walkway.

Not much really but "enough".

 

[Cheburashka]

Is this also the Woodside supercharger then? I remember Woodside being a future SC location on Tesla's map.

 

[SMAlset]

Here's where it looks like the SCs will be given the photo @bxr140 posted above and matching to the building shown. I'm guessing they might be pulling electricity from the street light area there.

 

[bxr140]

I'm guessing they might be pulling electricity from the street light area there.

As previously noted upthread, power is coming from the other side of Safeway—bottom right in your image. They trenched the whole thing across the parking lot, then across the front of Starbucks.

 

[SilverSp33d3r]

Are those individual transformers on each of the suc Cabinets? This does not look like a typical urban charger install?

 

[SMAlset]

As previously noted upthread, power is coming from the other side of Safeway—bottom right in your image. They trenched the whole thing across the parking lot, then across the front of Starbucks.

I can see where the trenching then would be a big inconvenience to regular shoppers to those local stores.

 

[mociaf9]

Are those individual transformers on each of the suc Cabinets? This does not look like a typical urban charger install?

Yes, those are the autotransformers (buck-boost transformers). Not all supercharger sites have them, but most do nowadays. And placing them on top of the supercharger cabinets is one of the 3 positions they get placed, depending on the site. The other two being pad mounted separately or stacked on an H-frame. Totally typical.

 

[Owner]

Is this also the Woodside supercharger then? I remember Woodside being a future SC location on Tesla's map.

Most likely it is the "Woodside" supercharger from the forecasted map, although its not at all in Woodside, but solidly in Menlo Park on the East side of 280. And honestly a better location for most with more services.

 

[tivoboy]

Man. Any chance this could be a v3? Anyway I thought woodside would be next. That seems on permanent hold. This is too close to home to be of much use to me but you can’t really find a higher concentration of Tesla’s anywhere

 

[mociaf9]

Any chance this could be a v3?

You can clearly see in the pictures up thread that it's an urban charger. Therefore 0% chance it's V3.

 

[tivoboy]

You can clearly see in the pictures up thread that it's an urban charger. Therefore 0% chance it's V3.

I’m not downloading images while in Patagonia. ;-)