Supercharger - Richmond, BC - Steveston Hwy.

[CanadaGoose]

Creating thread.

I first saw this article, and didn't post it without any real proof: Tesla Supercharger in Richmond under construction [British Columbia]

But, someone posted proof on Facebook confirming it. (note: I forgot where this screenshot came from)

 

[CanadaGoose]

11666 Steveston Hwy, Richmond, BC V7A 1N6 @Big Earl

 

[PLUS EV]

@Chuq @tes-s

 

[CanadaGoose]

@Chuq @tes-s

@Mayoo

 

[angus[Y]oung]

This is awesome! I thought early rumours had the 2nd Richmond site somewhere in the Bridgeport area, but Ironwood is a great choice too, with a massive parking lot and lots of good amenities. From memory, you've got both Starbucks and Tims, McDonalds, Browns social house, at least one sushi place, Save-On Foods, London Drugs, Canadian Tire, and more.

The other great factor is it's a very short drive off the 99. Interestingly, both ends of the Massey tunnel will now be covered. You've got the South Surrey SC at the 32nd ave/152 st Southbound exit from the 99 at the southern end and minutes from the Peach Arch border crossing, which itself is not far from the Blaine/Birch Bay SC south of the border on the I5; and now at the first exit at the north end of the tunnel will be the Ironwood SC. That's great coverage along that corridor, and this is definitely going to take some strain off the always-swamped Richmond Centre urban SC.

 

[EnterpriseT]

A downside is that this area gridlocks during rushhour as the queues spill back from the tunnel.

 

[angus[Y]oung]

A downside is that this area gridlocks during rushhour as the queues spill back from the tunnel.

@EnterpriseT excellent point--I'm usually in the area during off-peak times so that didn't occur to me but yeah.

 

[NSTM3]

We can change this from a Permit location to Construction cone.

I drove by today and several guys were working on site. Looks like 8 stalls in the main parking lot and a few meters away next to Dania Down there are likely to be 4 or more stalls there. Two separate locations, they're not all together in one spot.

 

[Rollinozone]

Transformer and meter are in place, looks ready to be turned on.

 

[scramies]

I'm not exactly sure when they turned the power on but this location is available for use.

 

[angus[Y]oung]

Awesome, so cool!

 

[NSTM3]

Let's update the status to OPEN now ... funny how barely anybody was interested in this location, no updates from anybody in a month since I was there last.

 

[NSTM3]

Paid a visit to these new Superchargers. They don't show up in the cars map yet, so I could not precondition. After 50 km's of driving on the highway, I arrived with 70% SOC and yet only got 32 kw speed. I was there for less than 10 mins, got maybe 80 km's added range only and paid $3.60. Scratching my head a little. On board it didn't show how much I was paying during the charging session either. Rather disappointing and seems like an error somewhere.

 

[Araman0]

The chargers are probably in the pre-production mode that’s fairly common, which is free charging at heavily reduced speeds.

 

[bolero]

It's already showing in the Car Nav a few days ago. You might need to reboot your car..

 

[f-stop]

This Supercharger shows up now in the App