Supercharger - Swartz Creek, MI

[M109Rider]

Hmm. Wonder what the hold up is. ?

1. Tesla forgot they were there, and doesn’t realize they aren’t on ?

2. Someone accidentally kicked the plug out of the main feed.

3. The “Swartz” is NOT with them..

Who knows, but my road trip to Frankenmuth would be nicer if this bank of Superchargers was lit up.

 

[theflyer]

In the USA, Swartz Creek is definitely an outlier. It is currently in 8th place for longest time from construction to open (at least as can be identified by supercharge.info crowdsource data. Go to this link and turn off all countries but the USA. Here are the top 20 or so with Swartz Creek's infobox presented. Another 25 days and it'll be in the top 5.

 

[mrau]

My brother went by Swartz Creek SC today and sent this photo. Not sure what they are doing, but at least it is getting done.

 

[IT Geek]

Hmm... Well, that's not Tesla. So looks like the contractor had more work to do before they hand over the site. Which then explains why they told you before they were going to wait till "after the holidays" cause they sure do have all the parking spaces taken up.

 

[M109Rider]

My brother went by Swartz Creek SC today and sent this photo. Not sure what they are doing, but at least it is getting done.

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That’s a good sign. Hopefully this will be online soon.

 

[Big Earl]

My brother went by Swartz Creek SC today and sent this photo. Not sure what they are doing, but at least it is getting done.

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Looks like they’re running the main conductors for the transformer. I can just spot the thick black cabling behind the pedestals. This is a good sign.

 

[M109Rider]

Anyone local able to see if they’re done yet?

I know it’s not open, but wondering if they’re still physically working there

 

[mrau]

Went by the Swartz Creek Sc this afternoon. The Skytrak is parked and there were no workers around.

Sure would be nice to have this up and running for the Flint, Saginaw, & Frankenmuth area travelers. Especially with the colder weather.

 

[mhinterseher]

Worst parking ever. Clearly ICEd — Did someone request towing? I wonder why this hasn’t gone viral yet. Some philosophical questions while we are all waiting for this charger to go live: Can a not working charger be considered ICEd? And if a charger state is unknown (aka Schrödinger’s cat) it could be not working and therefore not being ICEd. Therefore the only way to find out is to plug in — which is not possible as it wouldn’t be ICEd. Ergo the state of ICEd doesn’t exist unless we also allow non working chargers having an ICEd state or where did I make a mistake in my thinking Any way I hope it’s working soon, so they can start working on all the other chargers which were promised to be up by 2018. Happy waiting...
PS I just realized that the Emojis I had sprinkled in are dropped and adding some using menus is also not working :–(

 

[jordanX]

Maybe Tesla has no intention of making them go live until after the February 4th trial against Michigan Auto Dealers.

 

[IT Geek]

Worst parking ever.

Nah. I've seen worse.

 

[Thp3]

Nah. I've seen worse.

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you are plugged in in the picture. But this is not Swartz Creek...

 

[mrau]

Still hope for the Swartz Creek SC. Appeared to be a crew of about 7 people there today with two trucks and a trailer. The photographer said it looked like they were running new wires through the conduits. Hope they made good progress.

 

[IT Geek]

Your drone still works very well.

 

[mrau]

The same crew was at the Swartz Creek SC again today. When I drove by they had all the pedestal covers off and look to be running new wires between them. It was quite a mess around there and couldn't get a good photo of it. I asked one of the crew if they had any idea when it might be working and he snarkily said "check back in the spring"......definitely not the friendly Tesla type.
Later in the evening crew was gone and everything was all put back together and cleaned up. The charger handles are locked in place (unable to unhook them) and there were no numbers/letters on the pedestals yet. It looks like it is ready for the friendly Tesla crew to come out and get it turned on. Hopefully this happens next week. I'll be sure to send the "drone" out on Tuesday to take a look.

 

[IT Geek]

The friendly Tesla crew is usually just one guy driving some flavor of Tesla. He/she (hey never saw that but why not) puts the numbers on the stalls and does all the verification of the site. Could be there's some inspection work that the city has to do before they hand things over to Tesla (especially with all the new wiring that they just added)...so who knows.

But if the stalls are lit (the Tesla logo is illuminated) and the numbers are on then you should be able to charge...which will be before it shows up in the car or on the website...usually.

After all of this reporting I'd think you want to make sure you get the virgin charge off that thing...I'd be disappointed if you didn't.

 

[mrau]

My drone went by Swartz Creek today and saw a Model X plugged in. Just then the owner came out of the store and came back to the car. Asked them if they were getting a charge and the owner said No. They thought they were when plugging in and it said Ready To Charge, so they left it plugged in to go shopping. Never did get a charge though. Like @IT Geek said, no number, no lights.....no charge.

It would be nice to be the first to charge when they do open, but I will settle for the top ten or one hundred. Just Git-R-Done.

This is on our daily watch list now.

 

[Chili]

A bunch of guys were still working on the wiring in and around the switchgear cabinets today. Wondering what they're doing with the extra red inner plastic parts for the pedestals.

 

[79yofridge]

Wouldn’t it be interesting if this was an experiment with a v2 to v3 conversion/retrofit?

 

[Chili]

About 5 guys were still working on the wiring and stuff today

Wouldn’t it be interesting if this was an experiment with a v2 to v3 conversion/retrofit?

It would definitely be awesome to have V3 here, but the infrastructure installed by the utility was sized for a V2 station and I haven't seen a new load request come through for this site unfortunately... Unless they're planning on slapping down a megapack somewhere!