Supercharger - Santa Ana, CA (12 V2 stalls)

[ecarfan]

I believe there is a similar blue sign at the Buttonwillow Supercharger.

Looks like they added a couple of handicap SC stalls? Not official as no blue lines and symbol on pavement but a nice suggestion for those that need it....View attachment 204758

 

[ecarfan]

This Supercharger location is a great addition and will be very helpful to long distance through travelers on I5. This location and Buena Park should take a lot of pressure off San Juan Capistrano and possibly Pasadena.

I sincerely hope that this location is not overwhelmed with Tesla owners who live in Orange County and can charge at home.

I am not yet seeing this location on the Tesla Motors website "Find Us" page at Find Us | Tesla, or in the car navigation. I am sure it will show up there very soon.

 

[MP3Mike]

One comment about the new Supercharger: It seems to be slow. I got a max of 60kW out of it, and others in unpaired stalls saw the same. Nowhere near 120kW. Perhaps they are doing a slow "burn in" before cranking up the power to 11.

What was your charge level when you plugged in?

 

[* Powered]

I was at this location for 30 minutes charging at around 9pm yesterday. The first day it was open and not showing up on the map yet. There were three cars charging when I arrived and one came as I was leaving. Seems like this is going to be a packed location unfortunately.. I drive from the OC to San Diego and then up to Long Beach/LA and then back to OC in one day a couple of times a week. I have to SC once if not twice during that day and this spot is critical for my commute pattern. I am so over SJC SC but am not optimistic this will not get as congested as those other locations mentioned in this point...A lot of locals charge their cars at the SCs unfortunately...I am curious to know if those grandfathered Tesla's out there with unlimited charging will maintain that if they are resold as used cars over the next few years....Not sure what the impact will be...

 

[RubberToe]

This location and Buena Park should take a lot of pressure off San Juan Capistrano and possibly Pasadena.

ecarfan, can you elaborate on what you mean by this? There is no Supercharger in Pasadena. There are only Tesla chargers behind the retail store in Old Town. I believe those are only for Tesla store use. It's a perfect location to install more 80 amp destination chargers though.

RT

 

[gaswalla]

did you mean Burbank? That (and BP and SJC) are on the I5 corridor through LA

 

[rxlawdude]

What was your charge level when you plugged in?

Around 50%. The other very odd thing was that the initial estimated time to 90% (my setpoint) was 40 minutes. 10 minutes later, it was still 40 minutes.

Glad to see others are getting closer to expected rates. Perhaps I picked the wrong stall. There were all of three of us there last night around 6:15p, all of whom were seeing slower rates. And no, none of us were in paired stalls.

 

[* Powered]

Thats weird...for sure....hopefully it does not end up like SJC with regards to charging rates

 

[Ed Trotter]

Three charging at noon today.

 

[apacheguy]

Any more reports on the charge rate? We have one owner getting over 100 kW and 3 others claiming 60 kW max.

 

[ecarfan]

did you mean Burbank? That (and BP and SJC) are on the I5 corridor through LA

I did indeed mean Burbank. My apologies.

 

[Ed Trotter]

Drove by today about 10 a.m. The Tesla rep was back and I asked why the Santa Ana site was showing on the Tesla web site. He said he was still finishing up some things and the Super Charger isn't technically open to the public. Just FYI.

 

[ecarfan]

The Tesla rep was back and I asked why the Santa Ana site was showing on the Tesla web site.

I assume you meant to type "why the Santa Ana site was not showing on the Tesla web site." And as of this moment it still isn't.

 

[Ed Trotter]

Yep, you assume right. Serves me right for doing it on the fly!! And, the charger is still not on the Tesla web site!

 

[rxlawdude]

It's on the nav maps as of this morning!

 

[ecarfan]

It's on the nav maps as of this morning!

And it is now on the Tesla Motors website Find Us page as well.

 

[rfmurphy81]

 

[Ed Trotter]

Just for the record, four charging at 1 p.m. today, 12/10.

 

[eyespii]

10:15p, I'm the only one here. So lonely.

 

[rxlawdude]

Just for the record, four charging at 1 p.m. today, 12/10.

I was there around 3, and it was me and three others.