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Supercharger - Montgomery, AL
- Thread starter ldgrmnmc
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At Montgomery SC. This site is totally offline
I'm in New Orleans and will drive back to Atlanta tomorrow. This SC would be a huge help. I could avoid Greenville and Auburn, two of my least favorite SC's. I checked in my car this morning and Montgomery was shown with 12 stations, 1 in use and 11 available. Before I take a chance and skip Greenville, I would love to see something here from boots on the ground. Is anyone planning to visit the site today? Thanks
OnCampus2K
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They’re showing online again, even with some in use. Perhaps they took it offline temporarily to bring the rest of the stalls into the grid? Up until now, the counts of used/total available never equaled 12; but it does now.
Charged successfully around 1:30pm. There were about 4 other cars there. It was rainy, so we had to grab sandwiches and eat in the car.
btenison
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My Tesla app still shows 7/12 available. Thanks for the update on the irl availability. I’ll try and drop by Thursday when I’m down there and take a look as well
Yep the Montgomery Supercharger is definitely online. Charging there right now. It’s in the Target parking lot.
btenison
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Dropped by this afternoon after work. Looks like one unit is out (handle draped over the top). The rest look like they are ready and waiting. One other car charging. I charged for a bit (just for grins and to demo what supercharging is like to a non-Tesla owner friend of mine).
Charged here this weekend. No one was there while I was there. The only fast lunch nearby that I saw was at Chipotle across the parking lot. There are several sit down restaurants nearby. Travelling southbound on 85, Tesla nav had me get off and travel for a while down a service road. I think I might be faster to go to the next exit and double back.
You are correct about going to exit 11 and coming in the back side. It could be faster at peak shopping times or rush hour.
Came through Montgomery again on Sunday. There were 6 cars charging. I feel like this station is going to be a preferred destination for weekend holiday traffic. Even for traffic passing through on I-65 that doesn't want to divert, this location should free up space in Greenville.
The adjacent Target has a small grocery section in the back, more than just snack food. Not as much as a Super Wal-Mart, but there are a few healthy choices.
I don't know Montgomery other than passing through. The area around the charger is busy, feels like North Point Mall in metro Atlanta. Coming from the north, Tesla nav directs you to exit 11 and then travel parallel to I-65 on Eastchase Pkwy. The charger is somewhat closer to exit 9. Coming from the south, exit 9 has a divided lane that isn't obvious. If you exit in the rightmost lane, you won't be able to turn left on Eastchase Pkwy. But you can continue to the next intersection, Berryhill Rd, and loop around the back of the development and turn right into the Target parking lot, before you get back to Eastchase Pkwy. This was the fastest way when I tried it.
The adjacent Target has a small grocery section in the back, more than just snack food. Not as much as a Super Wal-Mart, but there are a few healthy choices.
I don't know Montgomery other than passing through. The area around the charger is busy, feels like North Point Mall in metro Atlanta. Coming from the north, Tesla nav directs you to exit 11 and then travel parallel to I-65 on Eastchase Pkwy. The charger is somewhat closer to exit 9. Coming from the south, exit 9 has a divided lane that isn't obvious. If you exit in the rightmost lane, you won't be able to turn left on Eastchase Pkwy. But you can continue to the next intersection, Berryhill Rd, and loop around the back of the development and turn right into the Target parking lot, before you get back to Eastchase Pkwy. This was the fastest way when I tried it.
Jeremy3292
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You only get 250 kW at a very narrow window, if at all. See 2021 M3 LR V3 SC graph above.
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... and you have to use the Tesla in-car nav system to navigate to the SC site, so that the car knows to pre-condition the pack before you get there.
This is a better illustration of the limited time that you get 250 kW. This is from 2.5 years ago; you can google for more recent examples, but it hasn't changed much.
There's a Plugshare checkin on last Thursday where someone filled in "250 kW" as the power they got, but newbies often misunderstand that numeric field and think it's for the capability of the station. It's not -- it's for what peak you actually got.
OnCampus2K
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We were getting around 200 kW when we stopped there, but we stopped earlier than we should have to take advantage of the max rate. We could have made it to Greenville, but we wanted to stop to check it out. It’s in a busy shopping center so it’s a little out of the way if you’re traveling down I65.
This one was the first V3 I’ve ever been to so I was a little confused that the stalls will still labeled A-D. I thought V3’s didn’t have the letters after the stall numbers, but obviously getting around 200 kW, it just has to be the case.
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V3 superchargers have 4 stalls per cabinet, so they generally get lettered A-D. I've seen some that lack the labels, though.
OnCampus2K
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Thanks for the info! All I’ve ever heard is, “They’re not shared. Use any of them and get full power.”, so when see them in person and see Tesla’s labeling system to indicate shared pairs for V2’s, it got a little confusing.
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