Supercharger - Parachute, CO

[MorrisonHiker]

@tes-s @corywright

@corywright Could you update supercharge.info to indicate this location has 12 stalls? Thanks.

 

[JamesEarl15]

Some additional observations:

Very close, and easy to get to, from I-70; this is a good location for a Supercharger Station.

There is a restaurant on the right side of the convenience store and a Domino's Pizza on the left side.

Free WiFi at Domino's is accessible within about twenty feet of the building.

The Supercharger stalls are located at the far side of the lot, so ICEing is unlikely to be a problem.

There is a carwash located onsite.

Some good info...thanks....cant wait to try it out.

 

[ee1110]

Just closed while en route to it

 

[PLUS EV]

Just closed while en route to it

Probably just a Nav error. Definitely stop and check if you are driving through anyway. But yeah, you can't rely on it unfortunately. I'm getting tired of all these glitches.

 

[Boulder1]

All Parachute superchargers were down when I arrived at 3:30pm Oct 6. Tesla support had no idea why or when they might be back up. Local slow charger nearby was also broken. Coasted on sparks into Colorado Mountain College in Rifle to get enough juice to make it to Glenwood Springs. Almost a serious problem.

 

[DeepBlueMN]

All Parachute superchargers were down when I arrived at 3:30pm Oct 6. Tesla support had no idea why or when they might be back up. Local slow charger nearby was also broken. Coasted on sparks into Colorado Mountain College in Rifle to get enough juice to make it to Glenwood Springs. Almost a serious problem.

That sucks. We have been seeing this more often lately on brand new superchargers… Not too long after they go live, something crashes or breaks.

 

[adurb]

We just stopped here after the car sent us to it on the way back east from green river. Rolled up and saw the cabinets open and Tesla service working on them. One walked up as we backed into a stall and told us to use one of the four most eastern stalls, it works but the car nav says three stalls total work so certainly degraded service here but they’re on it.

 

[MorrisonHiker]

We're navigating to Utah currently and the navigation keeps cycling between Parachute and Glenwood Springs Superchargers. We checked the map and it says the Parachute Supercharger is offline. We'll stop by and post an update in a few hours.

 

[MorrisonHiker]

The Superchargers in Parachute are really offline. There's a guy spreading rocks with a rake but no other work happening. Maybe they shut them off in case he rakes too vigorously?

 

[JamesEarl15]

They must be shut off for a while now. I think someone went through a few days/week ago and had the same issue.

 

[dgpcolorado]

^ There are successful charge checkins on Plugshare from October 13 and 15.

 

[PLUS EV]

I couldn't get any of the stalls to work on Saturday either.

@tes-s @Big Earl @Chuq please change to Temporarily Closed.

 

[cpa]

I spoke with a Tesla tech recently at a Supercharger in California. He is the "maintenance" guy. He has a rather large territory that encompasses about 25 Supercharger sites. He said all he does is maintenance, switching out various components inside the locked boxes. He said that there is also the "hot" team that responds quickly when one or more stalls are down due to broken parts or damaged components.

I commented that frequently new V3 Superchargers are temporarily closed soon after opening. His response was that it was on the utility side of things. Tesla cannot control the power that feeds the transformer which is then routed into the magic box.

I know nothing about electrical engineering. I do know that the car has software to detect irregularities in charging currents. This software either reduces the current or shuts off charging completely. I think that it is entirely plausible that the guts of the Supercharger has similar software that detects power surges or other potentially deleterious effects coming from the transformer. When a potential issue is detected, the Supercharger shuts down. The utility is then notified that there is a problem with their feed.

Or I could be 100% wrong!

 

[ColoradoEV]

FWIW:

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Showed as open this morning.

when this says temporary closure, were all the stalls deactivated or just a few?

 

[MorrisonHiker]

when this says temporary closure, were all the stalls deactivated or just a few?

None of them were on last weekend.

 

[dgpcolorado]

Nav listed Parachute as open an hour ago, after still being closed this morning.

FWIW.

 

[dgpcolorado]

Nav says Parachute has been closed again yesterday and today.

As best I can tell, the power company for Parachute is Public Service of Colorado, as opposed to the rural co-ops that serve most of us here. Perhaps they have problems with the feed to the Supercharger site and are not as responsive as the little co-ops.

 

[ColoradoEV]

Nav says Parachute has been closed again yesterday and today.

As best I can tell, the power company for Parachute is Public Service of Colorado, as opposed to the rural co-ops that serve most of us here. Perhaps they have problems with the feed to the Supercharger site and are not as responsive as the little co-ops.

Uffda.

 

[dgpcolorado]

Nav has been reporting Parachute open every day since Saturday at least. Successful charging reported on Plugshare three and four days ago.

Perhaps it will stay open this time.

 

[ElectricIAC]

Charged here on Tuesday, nice site.