Yeah, I am really curious what causes the different outages. I wish I could find a way to become certified as a limited maintenance tech for superchargers. I keep a pretty good set of electrical tools in my car all the times and I would love to be able to inspect things, reset breakers, swap rectifier modules / control modules, and swap out charging cords as needed.
All of those things are relatively easy and could put a supercharger stall back in service in just a few minutes while I happened to be there.
Now if the main electrical switchgear is damaged that is a whole different story. Probably would require coordination with the power company, not to mention probably a crane, etc...
To the comment about upgrading to V3: I have not looked but I suspect the conduit structure layout is vastly different in the ground between them so it may require heavy construction (also may require bigger transformers from the utility, etc...)
Indeed through the solution here needs to be more superchargers more places. It removes the single failure domain issue.
P.S. I may be the guy that brings gear to hard wire into any panel with me on the Fruit Loop tour. I am thinking this year about seeing if one or two of the places wants to add a couple NEMA 14-50’s ahead of time for the shorter range vehicles to top off.
Reading this, I was going to ask if you were the guy I was talking about...
I contacted one of the fruit places and the fruit stand may not be open this fall. It's been a hard year for them between the virus causing their normal summer wedding business going away, and the area had an ice storm just as the fruit set which destroyed half the crop.
In 2016 when I was down in California on a trip I met an electrician working on a supercharger in Manteca. He had just been up in Vancouver, WA because Tesla was moving him there. Up to that point the superchargers in the NW were maintained from California, but they were opening a new center in SW Washington that was going to service the entire NW. If your current gig goes south maybe you can get hired on with Tesla's NW supercharger support office and get paid to fix superchargers.