Supercharger - Santa Fe, NM

[hikerockies]

Still waiting for transformer this morning looks like. Pictures below.

 

[weradln]

Installation of the transformer probably started. Yesterday a backhoe was digging next to the charging racks.

 

[Dave46]

Stopped by Friday March 31 for pictures which show the transformer in place but no meter and an electrical cable sticking out of the ground!

 

[otter]

View attachment 220914 View attachment 220915 Stopped by Friday March 31 for pictures which show the transformer in place but no meter and an electrical cable sticking out of the ground!

Nevertheless, this site has been transformed! Waiting for the transformer is a significant hurdle in this process. All the big stuff is finally in place. Weeks now, rather than months.

 

[Huxley]

Stopped by Monday and they were installing a 'step-down' transformer to reduce the PNM charge by 20 amps. Worker said there would be a PNM inspection on Tuesday but he didn't know a time-frame for being up and running.

 

[tinm]

Drove by today, found no change. Charge plug stands still all wrapped in plastic. C'mon Tesla...

 

[Huxley]

Stopped by at 11:00a. on Tuesday the 11th. No progress. C'mon, Tesla....

 

[jnylenllc]

Maybe this is just my perception, but Super Charger progress seems to have really slowed nation-wide recently.

Given the current progress in 2017, I don't see them coming even close to their 2017 end-of-year projection map.

 

[hikerockies]

Maybe this is just my perception, but Super Charger progress seems to have really slowed nation-wide recently.

Given the current progress in 2017, I don't see them coming even close to their 2017 end-of-year projection map.

It sure seems so. Going by supercharge.info data, only 17 supercharger locations have opened in North America in the first 14 weeks of 2017. Didn't Tesla say they will open at least 100 more locations this year? Hopefully now that spring is here, there will be more progress.

 

[Bet TSLA]

Didn't Tesla say they will open at least 100 more locations this year?

Given that 361 is at least 100, yes. You have to imagine they're going to do something quite different for the rest of the year if you believe they will meet their stated goal.

 

[Huxley]

Charging at 12:50p on Thursday! The Tesla representative had driven down from Denver to check out and start the charger. He was still there when I drove up and he verified that I was the first customer!

 

[Armadillos]

Looking forward to using this in May when I'm down there for the weekend!

 

[Polly Wog]

Charging at 12:50p on Thursday! The Tesla representative had driven down from Denver to check out and start the charger. He was still there when I drove up and he verified that I was the first customer!

Pictures?

 

[tinm]

It's LIVE! I am charging right now! Also, there will be a news story in tomorrow's Santa Fe New Mexican paper; I'll post thr url when I see it live.

 

[tinm]

Heard from the reporter that the story on the Santa Fe supercharger got moved to tomorrow's paper. I'll post the URL when I see it. Might be late tonight.

 

[ancreserve]

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It's LIVE! I am charging right now! Also, there will be a news story in tomorrow's Santa Fe New Mexican paper; I'll post thr url when I see it live.

Great news! Now just get a SC in Alamosa, CO and Colorado skiing here I come...

 

[tinm]

Hot off the press... local story on new supercharger. Delighted to see the reporter got some facts wrong... sigh:

Tesla superchargers power up at Fashion Outlets

- "120 kilovolts of amperage"... ???

- "Tesla Motor Club" should be "Tesla Owners Club"

etc etc

 

[Barry]

From the article, "A supercharger pours 120 kilovolts of amperage into the batteries."

Do two wrongs make a right?

 

[tinm]

I submitted some corrections to the paper... hopefully they'll fix

 

[Tom Kilroy]

Hey, I am as surprised as anyone. And yes, I immediately questioned "why Santa Fe" and "it's not even on the map, what about the five unbuilt sites in the southern half of state that we've all been waiting for," etc. But hey, what I was told by two sources, one inside the company, and one familiar with the actual site and the plans for the site, is that the next supercharger in NM is in Santa Fe. And today I learned it's where I guessed it would be -- the outlet mall. I'm still awaiting word from a third source -- the City of Santa Fe Building Permits division. They may never reply to my inquiries, I don't know.

Not as nice a site as say Gilroy, CA, which has a big outlet mall across the street, but then in the same parking lot, an IN-N-OUT Burger. (Oh, if only New Mexico had 'em. Heck, I'd settle for a Chipotle in Santa Fe...)

There is one restaurant in the Santa Fe outlet mall, an authentic New Mexican cuisine place (I've never been). Plenty of other food nearby for long-distance travelers to pick up then charge, or stay in a nearby hotel and charge. Face it this Santa Fe site is, as someone else mentioned, a waypoint, not a destination.

The food at the restaurant isn't gourmet but it's not bad.