Supercharger - San Clemente, CA (LIVE 18 Nov 2017, 20 stalls)

[FredTMC]

I was there yesterday. Buddy of mine brought his MS by also.
Ten cars total.

 

[Teriyaki88]

what a treat! made a 20 min stop to get back to SD. i was getting 111 KW for most of the time. this location was badly needed.

 

[4SUPER9]

I am heading to SD on Friday. I could potentially make it from LA and back to San Clemente on a single charge, but will likely not have enough to drive around while there for 2 days. So, I will probably stop here on the way down and get a slow charge given that I will have a decent charge already. That should give me a buffer to make it back. If not, I will charge at the expensive Blink near my hotel ($2/hr)

 

[mp0i]

Great location. The problem is the last stop cost me $80. What are you supposed to do but walk around the outlet mall. The restrooms are really clean and nice and with all the outlets stores what is one to do ? The Eddie Bauer store had something that screamed “Buy Me” !!!

 

[HectorGB72]

New member here! Stopped baby and checked out the Supercharger in San Clemente. Loved seeing so many open spaces!!

 

[4SUPER9]

I just realized that if I intend to use this supercharger tomorrow, that also happens to be Black Friday. Culver City mall is massively overwhelmed with traffic that day, making the location practically inaccessible. Does anyone here have any knowledge on what it might be like here tomorrow?

 

[Cosmacelf]

Sorry, my time machine is currently under repair.

It’s a new mall, I don’t think it was open last year during this time?

 

[4SUPER9]

Sorry, my time machine is currently under repair.

It’s a new mall, I don’t think it was open last year during this time?

Really, I did not know that the flux capacitor was an option on our cars. Maybe just the refresh models, huh? Or, is that just another feature on the Roadster. Zero to 1955 in 2.5 seconds.

Hopefully not too crazy tomorrow.

 

[4SUPER9]

Charged there this morning around 11am. When I left LA at 9:30, the display said 3 cars charging. By the time I arrived, there were 7 cars there. We walked around the mall for a bit, and when we left at 11:30, there were 15 cars charging.

Parking at this mall is extremely generous. Most of the lots were close to empty.

 

[gaswalla]

for everyone's awareness: they close the garage and the gate that provides immediate access to the chargers at night.
I freaked out, having arrived with 7 miles.
There is a number on the gate to security you can call.
He'll just tell you to drive to other end of the property and come around the back to the chargers.

 

[RyanK]

FYI
Parking garage gates are only open during business hours so you have to drive around on top of the garage. I was informed that one family bathroom is always open during non business hours located next to Tommy Hilfiger.

 

[* Powered]

Great stop. Thank God I can avoid SJC. Can walk through the downstairs lot and take stairs straight up to stores and snacks. Clean and easy.

 

[xpilot]

I ended up crusing by tonight with 25 miles left from LAX on the way home to SAN and didn’t read any of these posts prior. I turned into the south area and was greeted with a closed parking garage gate as well as closed gates on the road area in the Mall. Didn’t bother and just gunned it back north to SJC in a small panick / sweat. I plugged in and got 92kW but had two transient individuals starring at me. They came and went for a few pass throughs and saw that they had setup camp underneath the awning of the Union Bank. I did not feel comfortable at all and would / will avoid this SpC in the future.

On the way to SJC, I called Tesla Roadside and the Service Rep pulled up notes on PlugShare about calling the guard up and that our display should have a phone number available. It does not. It also mentioned about driving along the north side and around the back. This all took place around 1AM. This is my first SpC experience.

 

[Cosmacelf]

Yeah, it’s still a bit frontier land being an EV owner, even in so. Cal. Obviously Tesla needs to be a better job at getting information out, but they do try their best. Reading TMC helps a lot, but it is a significant time investment. Your next Supercharger experience should be better!

 

[4SUPER9]

I ended up crusing by tonight with 25 miles left from LAX on the way home to SAN and didn’t read any of these posts prior. I turned into the south area and was greeted with a closed parking garage gate as well as closed gates on the road area in the Mall. Didn’t bother and just gunned it back north to SJC in a small panick / sweat. I plugged in and got 92kW but had two transient individuals starring at me. They came and went for a few pass throughs and saw that they had setup camp underneath the awning of the Union Bank. I did not feel comfortable at all and would / will avoid this SpC in the future.

On the way to SJC, I called Tesla Roadside and the Service Rep pulled up notes on PlugShare about calling the guard up and that our display should have a phone number available. It does not. It also mentioned about driving along the north side and around the back. This all took place around 1AM. This is my first SpC experience.

That totally sucks that you had to suffer through that experience. I find it more interesting that Tesla employees have to search PlugShare for the answer, instead of having it themselves. I recommend that you call Tesla again, during the daytime, and explain to them what happened and suggest they create improved signage or messaging on the in-dash display.

Also, FWIW, SJC is a lovely area during the daytime. A notoriously horribly place to charge due to over-crowding, but lovely town.

 

[xpilot]

Here is the official follow up from the Tesla Roadside Support Specialist.

Gate access to the property is closed from 12AM to 5AM every day, but still accessible to Tesla owners 24/7if they call the property security phone number listed at the gate entrance. Property Security Phone #: 949-378-8293​

Supposedly this phone number should be on the supercharger info on our Nav Screen.

 

[gaswalla]

You just need to drive around from the back of the mall to the chargers ...that's what the security guard will tell you (I called in the middle of the night). No one will be opening that gate

 

[mathwhiz]

Here now and the Tesla Supercharger service dude is here doing preventive maintenance on four of the charge points. He says they replace the wands and cables periodically. Didn’t know they did this, interesting and kinda cool.

 

[jelloslug]

Here now and the Tesla Supercharger service dude is here doing preventive maintenance on four of the charge points. He says they replace the wands and cables periodically. Didn’t know they did this, interesting and kinda cool.

I would be interesting to know how many charging cycles Tesla gets out of a charging handle/cable set.

 

[mathwhiz]

I’ll try asking, but correction... It looks like he’s doing all of them — 4 at a clip.