Supercharger - Milpitas CA - Great Mall (LIVE 20 Sep 2019, 20 Urban stalls, two areas)

[Dag]

Tesla tried to sneak this one in. Great Mall south side between the Mall, Chevron and Great Mall Pkwy. Address: 447 Great Mall Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035

@BlueShift

Site is pretty far along with the DC fast chargers (Electrify America?) visually completed. Tesla has 5 charging cabinets and 9 pedestals bases, didn't see the 10th spot nor the actual pedestals to identify if urban or supercharger.

Google Map Location


Pics around the site

 

[Dag]

Wide Shots and the staging and storage area.

 

[gillynova]

I've passed by this a couple of times and I just thought to myself that they're just installing regular chargers. I didn't know Tesla was planning to add Superchargers here!

 

[e-FTW]

Will be interesting to see how the interaction between the Superchargers and the Electrify America chargers is. Cost, ease of use, availability, reliability, etc.
Pretty neat to see them together!

 

[emupilot]

There appear to be 2 permits for the superchargers which indicate it will end up with 20 charging stalls: B-EL18-0623 applied for 12/12/2018 and issued 1/25/2019:

GREAT MALL: TESLA, Installation of 10 supercharge cabinets

The other is B-BP18-0351 applied for 7/18/2018, approved 12/21/2018, and issued 1/25/2019:

GREAT MALL: TESLA, Install 20 electric vehicle charging stations at existing parking area across from Red Robin Burgers mall entrance. Installation to include 10 supercharging cabinets with 160kVA auto-transformers in fenced enclosure (9ft tall) with 2000A Main Service in a separate fenced enclosure (9ft tall).

 

[gillynova]

Nice find guys! Glad to know it's 10 superchargers now. This is going to be a good spot, especially with the new plaza opening across the street.

Incase you guys aren't aware of it

 

[gillynova]

I've been paying attention to this area a lot haha. Here are some more photos/video of the area

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Drone Video of the nearby area as of Jan 2019.

 

[gillynova]

I didn't realize this location is going to have 20 superchargers... wow. I relayed information to my cousin that this would only have 5 cuz I saw OP's post saying 5 Tesla Cabinets and I initially thought he meant stations haha. I'll still cement this as a perfect location cuz of the new buildings/apartments happening around Great Mall.

I'll go after work sometime this week or even today to get updated pictures

 

[mociaf9]

Wait, so is this location having 20 super chargers? Other threads and sites mention it's going to have that many.

It's clear that the building permit for the install called for 20 stalls and the hardware to support that many. But Tesla sometimes permits a site with a future expansion in mind. Or sometimes, the number of stalls they planned in their original/initial submission is different from the actual plans that eventually get approved but the permitting description doesn't get updated. Etc. And from the pictures that @Dag posted, it looks like they may currently be only building 10 stalls (i.e. only 5 supercharger cabinets on site).

 

[Dag]

Updated pics from yesterday evening.

8 Urban charging pedestals are in now. Missing 2 on each side.


Storage area on the other side now shows electrical pad work. I assume 10 Tesla chargers on each side.

 

[mociaf9]

And from the pictures that Dag posted [ed. originally], it looks like they may currently be only building 10 stalls (i.e. only 5 supercharger cabinets on site).

Well, with the new pics we can see that there's a whole additional section still to be built and another set of supercharger cabinets. 20 is right.

 

[gillynova]

I just went to take pictures today too lol

 

[Dag]

Weekend Pics

 

[Dag]

Site is progressing well.

 

[Dag]

Thursday update.

 

[gillynova]

^^ Nice to see the chargers on the other side are up! I'll check these out after work later today. Last time I checked, everything was still fenced.

 

[gillynova]

Still fenced up as of May 3rd.

 

[Dag]

Pics from today.

 

[ElectricLee]

They will open very soon.

 

[Dag]

Drove by right now, busy hot weekend. Most fences were taken down and ground paint work was completed. Recently they started digging again for electrical work.