Supercharger - Primm, NV

[4SUPER9]

I imagine that it would take a humungous footing and capacitive bank to make contact, hold, and maintain such a Space Elevator Tether. Perhaps millions and millions of receptor cells. Probably a place big enough to hold a Giga or so of battery cells should do the trick.

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I am sorry, but this is way off topic as it belongs in the Barstow thread. Besides, neither the Mayans nor Nikola had nanotech's then. Well, maybe the Mayans did. We'll never know...

 

[GabrielB]

4SUPER9,
True, we may never know. Archeologists spend a lot of time looking down, rarely looking up. Perhaps the Aztec Mayans simply elevated, and the last one up turned out the lights...
Also true that this tread should move to Barstow, but I've yet to meet anyone at the Prim SC who hasn't spent some time looking around the Barstow SC site.
By the way, anyone know if the two street lamps ever got installed at Prim?

So, the mystery remains. I cant wait to see what Tesla does with those two huge footings in Barstow.

 

[FreqFlier]

4SUPER9,
By the way, anyone know if the two street lamps ever got installed at Prim?

Primm now has two lovely LED street lamps over the Superchargers. They're on the round footings that were noticed before.

 

[GabrielB]

Wow, that sounds very efficient, modern and stylish - especially with the lit-up Tesla Chargers themselves.
If someone could get a nice night photo showing all the glow, that would be great. Thanks.

 

[FreqFlier]

Wow, that sounds very efficient, modern and stylish - especially with the lit-up Tesla Chargers themselves.
If someone could get a nice night photo showing all the glow, that would be great. Thanks.

Assuming I don't forget, I'll try to get some photos on New Year's Eve. I'm taking my Mom to the steakhouse at Primm Valley Resort that evening.

 

[viet658]

Wow, that sounds very efficient, modern and stylish - especially with the lit-up Tesla Chargers themselves.
If someone could get a nice night photo showing all the glow, that would be great. Thanks.

Here you go

 

[GabrielB]

That's absolutely brilliant! Those LED Lamps are putting out fantastic coverage. Much safer for those lonely nights (unless you are trying to sleep...).
I replaced my front and back yard porch 40W night lamps with 4.5W LEDs, and the LEDs are putting out a lot more light for way less energy.
These LEDs are the way to go. Avoid those mercury vapor fluorescents - they're just poison waiting to get loose.
Hopefully all Superchargers will be LED upgraded this way. Thanks for the photo.

 

[spentan]

I drove to Vegas (in the rental suburban, still waiting for P85D).

I saw the Primm Supercharger from I-15, it looked really prominent. Can't wait to use it with my P85D, (finally I don't have to care about speed/winds, got Rancho Cucamonga, Barstow, Primm and Vegas)

 

[Whom]

I only seem to get about half-speed charging at Primm.

With my S60, I see about 50kW, and it charges about 140mph when near empty. This is with the station being otherwise empty, and trying multiple stalls. I get the full 105kW charging at Barstow.

 

[spentan]

I only seem to get about half-speed charging at Primm.

With my S60, I see about 50kW, and it charges about 140mph when near empty. This is with the station being otherwise empty, and trying multiple stalls. I get the full 105kW charging at Barstow.

Whenever this happens, call Tesla supercharger support and report it

 

[wycolo]

> Avoid those mercury vapor fluorescents - they're just poison waiting to get loose. [GabrielB]

These have been phased out over recent decades and replaced with sodium vapor street lights.

Primm Valley is being filled with solar projects the first of which is intensely visible during the day.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility>

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[FreqFlier]

Everyone knows it's windy

The Primm Supercharger appears to have come through the last night's wind unscathed, but the adjacent gas station, convenience store and gift shop were... well, I guess scathed is the word!

They're both closed right now due to chunks of the big sign falling into the parking and gas pumps below.

 

[SubSolar]

How are the wait times here on weekends?

 

[voltronhb]

We were at Primm on Saturday at noon. We were the only ones at arrival and there were 2 when we left. The charging speed was slow at 60kw.

 

[SubSolar]

We were at Primm on Saturday at noon. We were the only ones at arrival and there were 2 when we left. The charging speed was slow at 60kw.

Really it was fast a week ago when I went, 303 miles per hour. Also only one or two cars on both Friday around 2PM and Sunday around 11 AM.

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[ecarfan]

This was just posted in another thread. A heads up that the Primm location may be down.

Looks like you can add Prim NV and Las Vegas Town Square to the list:

"Jamilyn Kamano
April 19 at 10:09am

Good morning Tesla owners, Jamilyn from Tesla service here.

Just as a heads up, we are receiving information pertaining to the Townsquare (Las Vegas Blvd and Sunset) supercharging location to have been vandalized and it is currently down at this time.

Also, the Primm Superchargers are presently down, and look to been have vandalized as well."

Both of these are showing temporary closure on the NAV.

 

[EVCarGUy]

(If there's a dedicated Barstow thread, I couldn't find it.)

Supercharger - Barstow

It's easiest to go to supercharge.info - click on a supercharger, and a popup appears. Click on the "Discuss" link to get to the TMC thread for that supercharger.

 

[smilepak]

Charging and gambling

 

[RubberToe]

supercharge.info shows Stateline as being under construction. Is this site in Primm being expanded, or a new one being built?

Never mind, I see that the Stateline charger is in South Lake Tahoe.

RT

 

[Mark Z]

One word of warning at Primm. The raised curb on the south side is much higher than the cement rise on the north side. As you walk back from McDonald's or The Mad Greek, be careful to look down at the higher south curb and not trip over it by looking at the lower north curb.