Supercharger - Seattle, WA - Ballard Way

[goneskiian]

Ok, who made the Tesla people mad at us? Fess up...

I'd blame @PLUS EV, nobody likes to work with someone constantly looking over their shoulder!

Seriously though, this is bonkers!

 

[im.thatoneguy]

Bwahaha. This is unbelievable

Ok, who made the Tesla people mad at us? Fess up...

Hahaha, I'll just go ahead and quote myself for this one... from this thread.

I would say "unbelievable"... but this is Tesla's supercharging team.

 

[PLUS EV]

Went by late Monday night and no change.

 

[Janus]

Yeah, that's probably the most reasonable answer. They shipped the wrong pedestals, then not until a few days/weeks after the install began, did someone at HQ notice it. (Maybe Tesla HQ only noticed when folks started posting on TMC...)

I think the chargers are the same between v2 and Urbans, so they only need to swap out the pedestals.

So.... Just going to re-quote myself here. Maybe they will install urban pedestals after all???

 

[Big Earl]

You might be right about that!

 

[PLUS EV]

Progress?

 

[DSolie]

Backwards progress... They had to remove the conduit slab?! Somebody done messed up in the conduit run then....

 

[Kuhz]

Issaquah repeat?

 

[PLUS EV]

Issaquah repeat?

I don't remember Issaquah being anywhere near this bad. They've put in the pedestals and then torn them down twice. I've never heard of that happening anywhere else. Even once would be super rare. Like others in this thread, I still suspect we might end up with an urban supercharger here at some point.

 

[Kuhz]

I don't remember Issaquah being anywhere near this bad. They've put in the pedestals and then torn them down twice. I've never heard of that happening anywhere else. Even once would be super rare. Like others in this thread, I still suspect we might end up with an urban supercharger here at some point.

I know it’s not quite the same, but similar “waste of time/resources” story

 

[PLUS EV]

Took these pics Thursday afternoon:

 

[Janus]

Maybe they're ripping out the v2 conduit to install v3 conduit??? Or maybe this will still stay a v2 site, just there was an issue during inspection that required the whole thing to get ripped up???

 

[im.thatoneguy]

Conduit replaced. Maybe they laid down conduit for Urban 75kw and then they switched it up for v2 and had to update the specs for 150kw?

 

[PLUS EV]

Conduit replaced. Maybe they laid down conduit for Urban 75kw and then they switched it up for v2 and had to update the specs for 150kw?
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Ha! I took the same pic around 5pm. Maybe I just missed you.

 

[im.thatoneguy]

Missed each other by about an hour. I was there at 4:10p. There was a Model S pulling in at the same time as me and I actually wondered if it wouldn't be you but it was a woman grocery shopping.

 

[PLUS EV]

The ditch was filled in when I drove through on Tuesday so apparently someone was working on it. Not gonna bother posting pics until I see some real progress though (i.e. pedestals being installed for the 3rd time!).

 

[MacG]

New to TMC - we live in Ballard, super excited about this SuperCharger. One question, why is Northgate on the “official” Tesla map but not Ballard? I drove by to check it out and it looks like they’re ready for concrete pour!

 

[mociaf9]

New to TMC - we live in Ballard, super excited about this SuperCharger. One question, why is Northgate on the “official” Tesla map but not Ballard? I drove by to check it out and it looks like they’re ready for concrete pour!View attachment 612164View attachment 612165 View attachment 612165

Tesla's map is weird and not really reliable. There are always a handful of locations that are in progress or development that for one reason or another don't make it on to the map as a future location and will just pop up there when fully operational. And some locations that are on the map will stay on it for years before they get dropped without ever getting built.

 

[acarney]

New to TMC - we live in Ballard, super excited about this SuperCharger. One question, why is Northgate on the “official” Tesla map but not Ballard? I drove by to check it out and it looks like they’re ready for concrete pour!View attachment 612164View attachment 612165 View attachment 612165

They could be months away from being ready to pour the concrete let alone being done... this location has had pedestals removed TWICE and trenched up once after already having concrete poured...

 

[PLUS EV]

Just drove by again. No visible progress from Tuesday.