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Supercharger - Sacramento, CA - J St. (LIVE 18 Sep 2021, 20 V3 stalls)
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ddimit
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No significant update to report. As of yesterday contractors were running overhead conduit and power to destination chargers. From my last visit 2 weeks ago no major changes have occured.
The bottom floor is open now. No more fencing and it’s not taped off. I tried plugging into the destination charger but there’s no power. It looks like it should be open soon.
Not sure about the pricing. I know it’s 3 hours free with validation. You can go into Macy’s and get validated without purchasing anything
El joe
Active Member
Did a touch-and-go here this morning. A few observations: Someone asked about parking fees. To the best of my recollection it's $4/hr. So this isn't a great place to show up if you just need to charge, but if you happen to be in the area it's super-convenient to park and charge here.
It's great having the combination of a lot of V3 chargers and destination chargers. You can pick whatever is appropriate for your situation (but I could picture newbies getting confused about the difference).
There seems to be no restaurants or other businesses open in the Downtown Commons before about 11AM, or maybe 10AM in some cases. Would love to be proven wrong on this, but at 9AM on a Saturday it was super-quiet. I literally had the entire lower parking level to myself. Was not able to find an open restroom at this time either (there is a public restroom on the first floor but the door to get to it was locked).
As you can probably tell from the photos, the stalls are all head-in diagonal parking, which is a little unusual. The spaces seem pretty shallow. Model 3/Y will be fine parking here, but it seemed like a bit of a challenge getting my Model S far enough into the stall (up to the parking bumper) so that the cable would reach the charge port. Maybe I'm just not used to this geometry of Supercharger stalls.
Bruce.
It's great having the combination of a lot of V3 chargers and destination chargers. You can pick whatever is appropriate for your situation (but I could picture newbies getting confused about the difference).
There seems to be no restaurants or other businesses open in the Downtown Commons before about 11AM, or maybe 10AM in some cases. Would love to be proven wrong on this, but at 9AM on a Saturday it was super-quiet. I literally had the entire lower parking level to myself. Was not able to find an open restroom at this time either (there is a public restroom on the first floor but the door to get to it was locked).
As you can probably tell from the photos, the stalls are all head-in diagonal parking, which is a little unusual. The spaces seem pretty shallow. Model 3/Y will be fine parking here, but it seemed like a bit of a challenge getting my Model S far enough into the stall (up to the parking bumper) so that the cable would reach the charge port. Maybe I'm just not used to this geometry of Supercharger stalls.
Bruce.
I think I missed you by about 8 hours today @bmah! Grabbed a photo of the parking fees to put the controversy to rest. As mentioned by others up thread, validation applies from various merchants. Noticed the turn down to the lower floor was awfully tight so be careful with that one.
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Credit to Kiet Tran on FB for the photo.
If you walk into Macy's from the entrance near Yard House (Tunnel side). You walk in about 10-15 steps and you'll see this to your right. Macy's will validate for 3 hours for free.
If you walk into Macy's from the entrance near Yard House (Tunnel side). You walk in about 10-15 steps and you'll see this to your right. Macy's will validate for 3 hours for free.
Bighorn
Top Supercharger
I had to charge, so didn’t get to test the grace period.
Contrary to any signage I see here, I had a $2 charge for 22 minutes on a late Sunday afternoon.
Contrary to any signage I see here, I had a $2 charge for 22 minutes on a late Sunday afternoon.
I was at this location last night and all of the destination chargers were powered off. I thought that was strange. Superchargers were still up and running.
I was there this morning. The validation machine is next to Macy's Customer Service desk.
israndy
Supercharger Hunter
cpa
Active Member
Randy, remember that Sacto and environs is SMUD, not Pacific Gouge & Extortion.
That could 'splain much of the pricing differential.
As far as I can tell it’s the cheapest in California, no doubt helped by low SMUD rates. Parking is $4 for 2 hours but it’s not very hard to get validation at Macy’s or one of the other merchants. Even paying parking makes it the cheapest supercharger around, especially if you’re charging from low SOC to 80 or 90%. Access is great from the 5 freeway in either direction and getting down to 2nd underground level is not that difficult: after entering go straight and then left at the end to go down to level 2. The ramp down and up levels has tight clearances on the turns but it’s manageable.
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