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

Discussion in 'California Supercharger locations' started by Dag, Mar 18, 2019.

  1. Dag

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    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.

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  2. Dag

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    Wide Shots and the staging and storage area.
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  3. gillynova

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    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!
     
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    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!
     
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    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:

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

     
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  6. gillynova

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    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

     
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  7. gillynova

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    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.

     
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  8. gillynova

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    #8 gillynova, Mar 25, 2019
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    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
     
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    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).
     
  10. Dag

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    Updated pics from yesterday evening.

    8 Urban charging pedestals are in now. Missing 2 on each side.
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    Storage area on the other side now shows electrical pad work. I assume 10 Tesla chargers on each side.
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  11. mociaf9

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    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.
     
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    I just went to take pictures today too lol

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  13. Dag

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    Weekend Pics

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  14. Dag

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    Site is progressing well.

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    Thursday update.

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    ^^ 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.
     
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    Still fenced up as of May 3rd.
     
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  18. Dag

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    Pics from today.

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    They will open very soon.
     
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    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.

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