BlueShift
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I have removed the Santa Barbara blue dot from supercharge.info. Based on the last few posts above.
Supercharger - Santa Barbara, CA (permit found Dec 2019, expired Aug 2020)
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Alpaca
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Goldengate, I know exactly how you feel. I suggest you plan your hotel accommodations around their ability to offer you a charge option. Otherwise you are constantly thinking about how much is left and getting to your next "fix".
To add insult to injury, even if you leave enough charge to get to Buellton on your way home means you have to start your trip out with a long sit at the supercharger. Not ideal. And it makes it worse if you are planning on traveling around the weekend because the pairing and throttling of the charge rates means you may be charging for more than an hour at each stop on the way home. Much better to start out full IMO.
To add insult to injury, even if you leave enough charge to get to Buellton on your way home means you have to start your trip out with a long sit at the supercharger. Not ideal. And it makes it worse if you are planning on traveling around the weekend because the pairing and throttling of the charge rates means you may be charging for more than an hour at each stop on the way home. Much better to start out full IMO.
KirkNason
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Stop in Buellton, great wineries and Solvang. Then head east by Lake Cachuma for a very nice drive and drive into SB from the mountains. If you are still heading south, next would be Oxnard, but many options heading that way. Look for Destination or L2 chargers in SB, but you probably won't need it.
Avoid planning on going through the 154 highway by lake cachuma. The highway is closed till next month due to the rain damage from last week.
GoBlue88
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The SLO one was a great addition, but I agree on Morro Bay. I go up there every summer to visit my brother (headed up there next week). Topping off in SLO on the way in is good, but then spending several days driving around, to take my daughter to see the elephant seals, to Hearst Castle, etc. and then charging on the 110 in the garage of the condo I always rent is less than ideal, as is going to Atascadero (especially in the summer when it is >100 degrees there) or the Madonna to supercharge.
Guess I need to convince the condo owners to put in a NEMA 14-50.
cpa
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According to the Tesla app on our phones, the United States cities' per capita CO2 savings from driving Teslas:
Number one belongs to Rancho Santa Fe with 1,944.83 pounds of CO2 saved per capita.
Twenty-nine cities (thirty including Rancho Santa Fe) have a higher per capita figure than Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara comes in at 156.80, a respectable 31st!
My town comes in at #200 with 12.86 pounds per capita.
Globally, only Norway has a higher per capita amount than Santa Barbara.
According to the Tesla app on our phones, the United States cities' per capita CO2 savings from driving Teslas:
Number one belongs to Rancho Santa Fe with 1,944.83 pounds of CO2 saved per capita.
Santa Barbara comes in at 156.80, a respectable 31st.
Globally, only Norway has a higher per capita amount than Santa Barbara.
Trying to understand these stats. Population Rancho Santa Fe... 3,117. Population Santa Barbara City, 91,101. I suppose the idea is to provide an indirect way to say what percent of the population of a city have Tesla’s ... assuming they use some average CO2 saving per Tesla.
If so, whatever the number of Tesla’s in SB, multiply by 362 to match the Tesla CO2 savings per capita in rancho (assuming I looked up the population for right city and did the math right).
That’s a lot of Tesla’s...
I guess it’s also a measure of the relative wealth of the City. And that tracks... median 2010 household income was $189k for Rancho, $71k for Santa Barbara....
Well, I stand corrected
I'll have to figure out how to find that on the app. If you go to say Costco here on any given day, well, yesterday, we counted 16 in the parking lot. No charger, just shopping. They are absolutely everywhere.I remember being a kid and seeing the sign in your avatar, my father had to drive past it again so I could see if it really said what I thought it did. Is that I5 or I15 or something else? I've not seen it in years. I drove from Santa Barbara to Las Vegas which I think would have taken me on the 15 normally but there was a problem and we went around somehow. I suspect that my father would have had us in the car on the way to Vegas, though, must be the 15.
To stay on topic I'll post a picture of where I had heard that the Santa Barbara Supercharger location was going to be.
There isn't much to do around it aside from shop for cars, it's our car dealer row, one of two. Porsche is across the street and around the corner, maybe they could put Taycans out and try to entice S owners. Actually I know a guy at the dealer who said if there were a Supercharger there that is exactly what they would do, offer drives. I love Porsches, especially if they are air cooled, I have three, but I asked him, sounds like a great car, how do I take it cross country? He didn't know.
The electrical plans at Target show a future EV charge operating on 480V 3 phase. I personally have not seen this, but the person who told me that would have reason to see the plans.
If I were them I'd have the capability install a high power charger too, but I don't know if their parking lot is big enough to have a bunch of Teslas swarming around, and I'm not sure they'd need it, so I'm not betting on a Tesla station. Looks like they will have something, though.
If I were the owner of the Magnolia shopping center I'd be trying to get a SC station there, that would I think give them a big boost. They (always) need something.
If I were them I'd have the capability install a high power charger too, but I don't know if their parking lot is big enough to have a bunch of Teslas swarming around, and I'm not sure they'd need it, so I'm not betting on a Tesla station. Looks like they will have something, though.
If I were the owner of the Magnolia shopping center I'd be trying to get a SC station there, that would I think give them a big boost. They (always) need something.
The one in Santa Barbara is at 5 Points near Big 5.
Awesome news about the one near Costco - I live 1 mile from there.
Awesome news about the one near Costco - I live 1 mile from there.
I looked and looked through records and couldn't find that, nice job. I was guessing La Cumbre Plaza. I don't know why the guys at the service center didn't want to say, they just said it was approved. That's great. I'm about in the middle of the two.
Here's hoping to a lot of chargers there, that lot, next to the Big 5, isn't really used much, swarming Teslas wouldn't be a problem there. Blaze Pizza if they are aware of this must love it.
I heard that the third one was potentially going to be in the La Cumbre Plaza parking lot, but that it hasn't been approved yet. That would be better than 5 points because no one goes to LA Cumbre anymore..there's lots of room there. 5 points gets pretty crazy sometimes. But either place would be great..I have 2000 supercharger miles and no where to use them
There is a lot more to do at five points, but people who've not been there are not going to like making the left turn out of there to go back to the freeway. La Cumbre I thought should have done it as a way to draw people in, but........there's not much there there anymore,
2015 85D
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I am very suspicious of that map and the placement of the pin. The area between Big 5 and Ross is a solid line of stores. The map pin is smack in the middle of a (not shown) store. The parking on the frontage road is constantly full and the worst place in that lot for a charger. I know that area very well. The best place would be the area just north of Big 5. There are usually only 4 or 5 cars there most of the time, plus it's a little up hill from the rest of the area. Close to and very visible to the 101 North off ramp traffic.
The address on the permit is 3943 State Street, which is the Smart & Final and the general address for the 5 Points Shopping Center. The pin is on the Smart & Final store location, but presumably they will be putting the supercharger in the parking lot next to the store instead of within the store itself. The planning submittal for a screen for Tesla superchargers and the related electrical permit ready to issue leaves little doubt.
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