I want to give a big THANK YOU to Tesla for adding so many stalls in Mt Shasta and am particularly thrilled that it appears I will be able to charge here without unhitching.
I do find the official name of this new location a bit odd: “Mt. Shasta, CA - 134 Morgan Way”.
It is atypical to include the state name in the Supercharger name (though it has happened before, such as “Corning, CA” and others) but the name just seems unwieldy to me. And the charging pedestals are a lot closer to Commercial Ave than to Morgan Way. And why does the street number need to be in the location name?
I would have called this new location “Mt. Shasta 2”. The car nav will guide me there, I don’t need to see the street address in the site name.
I cannot answer your rhetorical questions, but I will add some personal notes.
(1) I learned that the city of Mount Shasta, California, was to be referred to as Mount Shasta City to differentiate it from the volcano. "I am going to Mt. Shasta" was ambiguous, so we would add city if we were heading there as opposed to the volcano.
(2) While it is very unlikely that there is another Mt. Shasta anywhere else on the globe, there are other communities with the name, Corning. New York comes to mind. Similarly, Springfield, Oregon and Illinois both have Superchargers. I assume that the software cannot discern two discrete locations with the exact name, so perhaps Tesla added CA to the new location to differentiate.
(3) Commercial Ave. is a nothing-burger stub of a street. Perhaps there were no postal addresses assigned to Commercial. All the addresses in that strip mall appear to have Morgan Way addresses.
(4) I am a street address kind of guy. Road maps have not evolved enough to know what Mt. Shasta 2 is. But they do have the names of the streets and roads on them. (Not trying to be snarky, but I use maps and addresses. I loathe navigation systems.)
