The logic behind what I am saying is that this parking lot is extremely busy all year and it's a pay parking lot. I know it well. In Winter and Summer it's going to be jam packed and it will be iced all the time. Most hotels in Whistler offer L2 charging for free for guests, so really this proposed location is for transiting people mostly heading along the Sea to Sky corridor either to/from Pemberton, Lillooet and beyond where there are little to no chargers and from there to the Lower Mainland. Why clog up the already super busy and PAY parking at Marketplace with Superchargers.
Whistler Muni Council is full of greenwashing hypocrites, they have said for 10 years that they need more chargers and yet they own half of the land in Whistler, yet they have barely added anything. All of Whistler has but 1 BC Hydro 50 kw charger in a private garage. That's all for all of one of the most wealthiest Muni's in all of Canada, if not the world. They have so much land and so much money, yet they have never installed even one fast charger. Even broke little Pemberton installed 2 x ChargePoint fast chargers just this month ... Whistler Muni ... nothing!
It will be great if this passes, don't get me wrong, and we get 8-20 new Superchargers, but this could have been done years ago on Muni land and without discussion and passed immediately. If you know Whistler, you'd know that the large parking lot is next to the Village, it takes but a couple minute walk to Starbucks and the whole village. Instead greenwashing Whistler Muni ignored any cooperation with Tesla (as I personally tried to get both to work with each other to build Superchargers on Muni land for years) and they waited for the private sector to give up their land while Whistler Muni Council sat on their hands for years.
In conclusion, yes it's great, but if you'd seen the effort I put in to lobbying Whistler Muni and hear for years what they've been greenwashing, it's frustrating that they did not promote an EV charging hub of BC Hydro, ChargePoint, Flo, Superchargers, etc long ago on their vast lands throughout Whistler. Let's remember that there are also a lot of non-Tesla's that don't have any other choices. So still these Superchargers are only good for us, and nobody else for the foreseeable future.
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