Supercharger - Winnipeg, MB

[Manitoba Keith]

Great news!
It will be interesting to see when the equipment starts arriving. I check the Brandon site daily, and once I see something, I'll post in the Brandon area.

 

[noahweiszner]

I was at the Polo Park site yesterday.
The workers there are only working and building the ramp and don't know anything about a charger being built.
They said that Manitoba Hydro installed the transformer but don't know what it's about.
To extrapolate, perhaps Hydro installed their transformer and are waiting for tesla to do their part.
So technically, this site is not in the "construction" phase.

 

[XHabjab]

I was at the Polo Park site yesterday.
The workers there are only working and building the ramp and don't know anything about a charger being built.
They said that Manitoba Hydro installed the transformer but don't know what it's about.
To extrapolate, perhaps Hydro installed their transformer and are waiting for tesla to do their part.
So technically, this site is not in the "construction" phase.

Negative. If there is a transformer there, it is under construction.

My guess is that PCL is doing the work for both the ramp and the Supercharger site.

 

[MD-2000]

Well, 204EV's photo shows the back of a hefty Hydro box someone has written "Tesla". My photos show Hydro has pulled a buried cable to that box from the nearest Hydro box down the street. There's a cleared area behind the Hydro box big enough for the V3 gear if Portage and Brandon are anything to go by. The Hydro box says it's 5,000kg - so I suspect it's a fairly substantial piece of equipment. It's not there just to light the ramp.

And... someone from the construction trailer has said they were prepping for Tesla equipment even if one of the other work crews is not aware of it.

 

[Manitoba Keith]

Drove by just after noon today and saw MB Hydro wiring the Xfmr. Didn't have a chance to quiz them.

 

[VIKING26]

Over a week and no reports. Is anything happening at the location?

 

[204EV]

Over a week and no reports. Is anything happening at the location?

nothing notable 3 days ago.. im running by there after work today so we will get an update.

 

[Andy O]

I went there today and talked with the same man I talked with a month ago. I found out I had some wrong ideas, but got some more news. He, and PCL Construction, are working on the parking ramp and he only knows about the Tesla project by rumour and because their trailer and equipment is, or was, on the Tesla location. He believes there is one Tesla crew doing all the nearby installs. They did Portage La Prairie then moved east, skipping Winnipeg because his trailer was on the site, will continue to the east, then return to do Winnipeg. The project manager there is the operator of the shopping centre.

 

[Andy O]

I don't mean the guy I talked to owns the shopping centre! I mean the shopping centre (Cadillac Fairview) is overseeing the install itself.

 

[204EV]

Yeah. No change no equipment nothing although the ramp does look like its getting closer... This isnt usually what we are talking about when we say tesla is having trouble with a ramp.

 

[noahweiszner]

So two chargers are ready to go! Fence ribbon-cutting TBA

 

[MD-2000]

I went there today and talked with the same man I talked with a month ago. I found out I had some wrong ideas, but got some more news. He, and PCL Construction, are working on the parking ramp and he only knows about the Tesla project by rumour and because their trailer and equipment is, or was, on the Tesla location. He believes there is one Tesla crew doing all the nearby installs. They did Portage La Prairie then moved east, skipping Winnipeg because his trailer was on the site, will continue to the east, then return to do Winnipeg. The project manager there is the operator of the shopping centre.

Ah. Makes more sense. The ramp/top level parking is almost done, they removed the ramp scaffolding a few days ago.

More interesting is "the crew went east". they finished Prawda a few weeks ago. I wonder if they kept going east from there? I suspect since the Sault Ste Marie crew indicated a month ago that they were headed northwest, whether there's more TransCanada site prep we're not hearing about?

 

[204EV]

Swung by today. Pcl moved thier trailer over and removedbthe fencing around where tesla needs to work.. maybe it will start before the ramps ready

 

[MD-2000]

If this is the same crew doing Bassano, we may have to wait for them to do Medicine Hat and Swift Current on the way first? (I'm more interested in those than Winnipeg)

 

[Manitoba Keith]

Was in Winnipeg yesterday and took these of the transformer. Nothing happening there.
I don't know why, but I had rotated the pics to up & down and they showed rotated. Then I changed back to original and they didn't rotate! Oh well, they are here.

 

[X-Men]

If it is the same company that has the contract for Portage and Brandon sites, they are currently busy working on Saskatchewan sites. They will probably head back after finishing Swift current.

 

[X-Men]

Swung by today. Pcl moved thier trailer over and removedbthe fencing around where tesla needs to work.. maybe it will start before the ramps ready

Have you checked there this week. Looks like Swift current was done by the end of week last week. They haven't popped up anywhere in SK, so possibly be working in WPG.

 

[204EV]

Not as of Tuesday evening. they havent even broke ground yet.. but the ramp I think they poured the concrete today. So there's that. Ill swing by there after work but looks like they forgot about us.

 

[Manitoba Keith]

I was there yesterday, on Wednesday 18th about 1:00 pm. No change, no work being done.

 

[MD-2000]

Maybe they're doing Medicine Hat first. It's hard to tell from the photos from there whether it's a supercharger or another Tim Hortons, but it does look like the same mini-digger they've used across the prairies.