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Supercharger - Morgan Hill, CA (LIVE 24 Oct 2019, 14 urban stalls)
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FlatSix911
Porsche 918 Hybrid
As @FlatSix911 noted, that will likely be the PG&E transformer. It may be several weeks before this new Supercharger is operational. It’s up to PG&E now, and is beyond Tesla’s control.
What do we think will go in front of the white charger cabinets? There’s a pad with some conduit between them and the bollards and trees in the second picture.
Bruce.
Bruce.
There’s a lot of construction/development projects at various stages of completion in this town so who knows how far out city inspections are getting scheduled too. At one point in the market down turn they went from two city inspectors to one but certain they hired more as things picked up. The electrical grid for this area is also being upgraded.
Based on location and conduit stub layout, it looks like the pad where they'll install the small autotransformers (buck-boost transformers). I.e. the small white boxes. It's one for each cabinet and you can see 7 pairs of conduit stubs (for line-in and -out).
This afternoon they were installing those buck-boost transformers on the small pad.
Yesterday they were working on the far left gray tall cabinet’s interior, which from the signage on it now indicates it is dedicated to the ChargePoint equipment. This morning the fence is down and here’s the progress you can see.
Looks like one piece of equipment left to deliver and install.
Pretty sure that Lone Star vehicle is one of those cement vehicles that makes cement on the spot mixing concrete and water and stone. It’s motor was mixing or pumping cement when I was there but couldn’t see where it was going.
Interesting how they positioned the urban chargers to the parking lot adding a bollard protecting them. The spaces look wide and presently the urban chargers appear centered to the parking spot. Have you guys seen this type of urban charger placement before? I have to think they will be re-striping the spaces so the cars backed in sit to the left of the pole and urban chargers.
And at the very far end of SCs (closest to Target) these 2 ChargePoint units for 4 charging stalls. There were workmen there otherwise would have looked closer at the equipment.
Looks like one piece of equipment left to deliver and install.
Pretty sure that Lone Star vehicle is one of those cement vehicles that makes cement on the spot mixing concrete and water and stone. It’s motor was mixing or pumping cement when I was there but couldn’t see where it was going.
Interesting how they positioned the urban chargers to the parking lot adding a bollard protecting them. The spaces look wide and presently the urban chargers appear centered to the parking spot. Have you guys seen this type of urban charger placement before? I have to think they will be re-striping the spaces so the cars backed in sit to the left of the pole and urban chargers.
And at the very far end of SCs (closest to Target) these 2 ChargePoint units for 4 charging stalls. There were workmen there otherwise would have looked closer at the equipment.
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israndy
Supercharger Hunter
The inspections are DAYS after the install. Don't get too excited when the transformer is finally put in.
Striping - check
Workers gone. Ready for next stage. Do you think tire blocks will still be going in at some point before they open or does this design preclude the need for them?
Workers gone. Ready for next stage. Do you think tire blocks will still be going in at some point before they open or does this design preclude the need for them?
I think it's interesting how some of the pedestal bases are in the asphalt area (with bollards) and some are in the landscaping area (no bollards).
Bruce.
Bruce.
The ones in the landscaping area are so that those particular stalls will qualify as being "Van Accessible" stalls for adherence to the disabled accessibility rules for building public EV Charging Stations. Van Accessible stalls need to be a few feet longer than normal stalls, which is why they're cut back.
