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Supercharger - North Wales, PA

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permit - 267 days

How is this... still a thing...?
What's the confusion? Nothing unusual or surprising about it yet. Assuming there isn't some big snag that holds up the works late in the game, for a site like this I would generally expect to see the supercharger complete or operational 6 to 9 months after planning approval is granted. About 3-6 months of that time for permitting and the rest for construction. In this case, planning approval was granted at the end of September 2020. So, look for it some time between April and June/July. Of course, that assumes that Tesla decides to start construction soon after they get the necessary permits. Sometimes weather or other scheduling factors make them wait a while before they break ground.

Naively using the "days in permit" figure from supercharge.info can be a bit problematic. The "permit" dots are often added to the site long before the project gets to the actual permitting phase of development. For North Wales, the site was added to SC.info in April (just after I found the listing and started the thread), well before planning approvals had been granted and consequently long before Tesla had even applied for any building permits. If you want to know why the planning stage took until almost October, ~6 months (from February to August) was waiting for Tesla to submit a 100% complete application. ~1 month was due to the planning board deciding that, based on the information provided at the initial hearing, their application was actually for the wrong type of approval and that they'd have to resubmit for the correct type. And ~1/2 a month was waiting for the next planning board meeting to hold a hearing for the newly corrected application.

Assuming Tesla immediately applied for building permits after the planning approval, they've actually been in permitting only ~135 days.
 
So has this location been scrapped? Wondering now that Doylestown is coming on soon, they are quitting on this one..
Maybe one day...
 

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No idea... I did send a LinkedIn message to Henry Misas (Tesla supercharger installation manager) ... no response...
This Supercharger has been lingering for so long I bet it’s been scrapped now that Doylestown is online....
Some supercharger locations sit in this same state for a year or two before they eventually get built. It's really not extraordinary even if it doesn't happen all the time. The last known development activity here was only ~7 months ago, when Tesla got local planning approval (September 2020). That's not anywhere near long enough to start wondering if the location was dropped. If by September 2022 nothing new has been heard about more progress on the location, then your impression about it being scrapped will start being reasonable.
 
Some supercharger locations sit in this same state for a year or two before they eventually get built. It's really not extraordinary even if it doesn't happen all the time. The last known development activity here was only ~7 months ago, when Tesla got local planning approval (September 2020). That's not anywhere near long enough to start wondering if the location was dropped. If by September 2022 nothing new has been heard about more progress on the location, then your impression about it being scrapped will start being reasonable.
Hope you’re right and it just takes more time... but with another supercharger less than 10 miles away... I’m not feeling good about it..
 

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