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It's live per Tesla Findus & on Supercharge.info. I'll be stopping by there this morning to confirm.The fence is gone. The chargers were shut down for final inspection before allowing cars to charge. You could park at the pedestals but no charging yet. 5:25PM PST today.
Excellent! I've changed the thread title. Look forward to using this Supercharger soon! Thanks.It's live per Tesla Findus & on Supercharge.info. I'll be stopping by there this morning to confirm.
We stopped at Salinas to get a quick charge boost for the final leg home. The photos don't really do justice to the size of this mall complex. There are a lot of stores and eating places, including B J's Brewhouse and Mountain Mike's Pizza. This supercharger looks like it will be a great alternative to Gilroy.
Important cautionary note, though: approaching this location from the south, the navigation system had us exit 101 at North Main Street. This unnecessarily takes you up Main Street for about a mile from the highway. Since we weren't driving a pickup truck with its bass thumping, we felt out of place for at least the first few blocks past the Monster Truck and Tractor Pull event at the Salinas Sports Complex.
There's no reason to go this far out of the way. Instead, take the Boronda Road exit, and then turn south onto Main Street for 1 block. It's much quicker and avoids a longer stretch of surface streets.
Yes, this was Tesla's onboard navigation. Somewhere south of Salinas, I tapped the red supercharger pin on the map; it popped up the status panel and I hit the NAVIGATE button inside it. Since I didn't know the area, I dutifully took the exit it recommended. Of course, when we were ready to get back on 101 and the onramp was basically around the corner on Boronda, I realized it had taken us on the "scenic route."Boronda's the exit route we took when coming up from central calif. That routing Northbound via Main Street exit should be changed. That was from Tesla's onboard Navigate?? Unless someone's intent was to make you go through a good part of Salinas . Google maps from Atascadero directs you the Boronda Rd exit (#331). Heck even going Southboard from Gilroy it directs you to take the Boronda Rd. exit and you cross over 101 using the overpass on Boronda.
I wouldn't do a victory dance just yet. As you noted, the Model 3 ramp up has been sluggish and certainly isn't anywhere near complete yet. Despite this, there are still supercharger locations like San Diego with long lineups. BTW this is off-topic.Seeing this makes me very happy that Tesla got ready for their growth in ample time.
It looks like the SuperCharger buildout was right on time for the most optimistic Model 3 ramp up, but now they're accidentally overly ready (even premature from a strategic timing point of view) with the SuperChargers. They're more than ready. Does anybody remember when negative spinsters were selling accusations that the SuperChargers would not be ready on time for Model 3? How wrong that turned out to be! Model 3 owners will never know the caution we earlier owners had to have with most long distance drives.
On the other hand, I have to wonder: have many people been finding good old Salinas a useful location to charge? Someday it will be more than utilized, but as of right now, it seems blissfully unoccupied.