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Supercharger - Twentynine Palms, CA
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AZ Ed
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I charged at the Twentynine Palms Supercharger on Sunday, March 26, 2017. While waiting, I joined the players club at Tortoise Rock Casino and they gave me a $10.00 credit to start playing. I don't normally visit casinos, but this one is very nice, brand new and has free self-serve soft drinks and coffee. I left with a 99 % charge and $16.10 more than when I arrived. It was a very nice experience.
So almost exactly a year later (see my post #32 in this thread) I am back at this Supercharger but with a different Tesla (I was here yesterday, December 29th) . No one else charging. Great location for those who want to tour through Joshua Tree National Park.
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Funny. When you see an empty Super Charger, first you're like "Score!" fast charging - no line. Then you wonder if Tesla is going to make it with all of this infrastructure going to waste.
Then you come back to the San Diego/Orange County/Los Angeles and every SC is full and there's a line. Then you wonder if Tesla is going to make it if they can't keep adding infrastructure, and this can all happen in the same days drive.
Then you come back to the San Diego/Orange County/Los Angeles and every SC is full and there's a line. Then you wonder if Tesla is going to make it if they can't keep adding infrastructure, and this can all happen in the same days drive.
Tesla treats money spent on seldom used or otherwise remote Superchargers as marketing expenses. And since they don't spend anything on advertising, remote superchargers and referral rewards make up almost the total of their entire Marketing and Advertising budget. It's not that much in the grand scheme especially if you view such expenditures as "early investments". As their sales expand more and more, Tesla will have to have supercharging in such places anyway. So putting them in before they are strictly needed based on usage numbers is more like a somewhat inefficient way to invest capital as opposed to wasteful spending.
Lucky to get an empty parking lot and no unhitching here.
I have done exactly the same thing. 
I’ve never seen more than two other cars charging there.
Beautiful photo!
Unfortunately there is little in the way of edible food at that location.
I’ve never seen more than two other cars charging there.Beautiful photo!
Unfortunately there is little in the way of edible food at that location.
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I think I was the only one charging when I went to this supercharger myself.
But it was sooo windy I didn't leave the car.
I doubt this one will ever get too busy as it is a bit out of the way.
But it was sooo windy I didn't leave the car.
I doubt this one will ever get too busy as it is a bit out of the way.
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Coming from Phoenix and having last charged at Quartzsite, it was a little nerve wracking to see this sign at the south entrance to Joshua Tree when contemplating driving through the park rather than continuing west to Indio (on a five day, 2,000 mile trip from Silicon Valley to LA, Vegas, Grand Canyon, Phoenix, and back home). There is literally nothing after the southern visitor center for 40+ miles, but hills and mostly deserted, smooth-paved, curvy roads. And my favorite curvy road sign (below).
Highly recommend driving across/through the park instead of around it to anyone who has the opportunity.
But yeah, the SC at 29 Palms may have been the only one of the 11 on my trip that didn't have much of anything around it (aside from the casino which I didn't enter).
Highly recommend driving across/through the park instead of around it to anyone who has the opportunity.
But yeah, the SC at 29 Palms may have been the only one of the 11 on my trip that didn't have much of anything around it (aside from the casino which I didn't enter).
Another year has gone by, and I’m back at Joshua Tree. Charging at Twentynine Palms and following @ohmman’s lead; with only one other car charging at this location, no need to unhitch to charge at stall 4B with the car taking up stall 4A.
On the way here, passing through the town of Joshua Tree, which is over 500 ft higher in elevation than the Supercharger, there was plenty of snow. Weather is supposed to improve tomorrow and than be reasonably nice for the next few days.
On the way here, passing through the town of Joshua Tree, which is over 500 ft higher in elevation than the Supercharger, there was plenty of snow. Weather is supposed to improve tomorrow and than be reasonably nice for the next few days.
I charged here over the past weekend. Two other model 3's passed through the supercharger while I was there. Charged at 133kw peak.
Casino was crowded on a Thursday night. Bathrooms at the casino were nice. They did some sort of thermal image of our face to enter the casino... I wonder how well that technology will work when it's 120 degrees outside.
Casino was crowded on a Thursday night. Bathrooms at the casino were nice. They did some sort of thermal image of our face to enter the casino... I wonder how well that technology will work when it's 120 degrees outside.
Yes, actually they do.Snowbirds don’t drive Teslas!
I’m on my way from Vancouver to Palm Springs right now. Will likely be using this Supercharger a few times in December.Similar threads
