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Maybe Elon should start a "Tesla Transformers" division of Tesla Energy.
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In California it is especially hard because many are replaced due to wildfires. I believe the backlog I have mentioned elsewhere is not a bad but PG&E still seems to be lagging behind other utilities for whatever reason. Maybe it’s just the sheer number needed.Thanks for the info. This seems to be a common problem on the Bay Area Peninsula since I know of at least 3 new Supercharger installs all bagged up and waiting to go. Is this common over all of the Bay Area? All of California? All of the country?
At the risk of stating the obvious it doesn't help with the supposed "shortage of charging infra-structure" if the Utility companies don't connect them up after they have been installed for months and months and months.....
Still no progress. Do you know if PGE will first pour a concrete slab like all the Tesla cabinets are sitting on? If so that will give us some warning but add a bit more delay.Here's a little closer look. That conduit/channel will hold the bus bars that carry 4000 amperes from the utility transformer to Tesla's equipment. At smaller sites the conductors go underground between the transformer and Tesla cabinet.
But for now, we wait for PG&E to install the transformer. And wait. And wait.
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Sometimes it’s prefab so it’ll come the same time as the transformer and just be there one day when it was t the day before.Still no progress. Do you know if PGE will first pour a concrete slab like all the Tesla cabinets are sitting on? If so that will give us some warning but add a bit more delay.
I wonder if all those Superchargers installed in the Bay Area and waiting for a transformer
will be soon out of date with the coming V4 and the Magic Dock CCS1/NACS.
I guess it gives me more appreciation of the scheduling delays, it's not really just waiting for a transformer to be delivered and plopped down on a concrete pad, and just tapping into the existing power supplies of the adjacent shopping center or retail establishment. Grant Rd is all the way on the opposite side of the shopping center buildings, so if they need to connect to over there, they'll need to either burrow all the way around the buildings via the asphalt roads or parking lots, or under the buildings - that would seem to me to be as much cost, maybe more, than the work to install the Supercharger stalls and cabinets (though I'm no expert on any of these contractor costs!).Finally a glimmer of progress. A PG&E project manager onsite said they plan to put in two 6 inch conduits for two 12kV 1000A circuits to two transformers and his contractor was there today confirming a safe route around other utilities etc. They have to run a couple blocks to the other side of Grant Rd. They will also have to pour concrete pads for the transformers. Could easily take another couple months, especially given the holidays.
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Yeah I was told they were going to open trench to Phyllis Rd (which I think is done except for the tarmac repair) and then have to directionally bore over to and under Grant Rd. Lots of work.Grant Rd is all the way on the opposite side of the shopping center
Was there a giant green box hooked up the the white Tesla cabinets pictured above?The electrical contractor and PG&E were both onsite yesterday. PG&E appeared to be hooking things up inside a cabinet. The no parking signs that PG&E put up only had January 9 in the date field, so it seems like they intended to finish up. While they were working a few of the stalls had their canvas covers removed. I wouldn't be surprised if this station is online in the next few days, if not online now.
When Superchargers go online, do they show up right away in the Tesla phone app and the findus web page?
I was on the lookout for the transformer but I couldn't tell with the PG&E trucks in the way. I'll try to take another look early next week if we don't see it come online before then.Was there a giant green box hooked up the the white Tesla cabinets pictured above?
I was on the lookout for the transformer but I couldn't tell with the PG&E trucks in the way. I'll try to take another look early next week if we don't see it come online before then.
There is now, I think this is new within the past couple days.Was there a giant green box hooked up the the white Tesla cabinets pictured above?