Howdy folks. I'm not a Huntsville native (Birmingham) but we're coming up in a couple weeks to the Tate Farm pumpkin patch (my family on my mom's side are the Tate's) but I'm wondering if Athens is our best bet for a charge? I really don't know how comfortable I am trying to make a 250 mile trip without a charge in my M3P.
I couldn't find any other charging locations and it seems like just leaving the house a little earlier in the morning to hit an Athens supercharger for about 15 minutes is realistically my best option.
I suggested to my cousins who operate the farm that some EV charging would be a cool touch, even if it's just a couple of 50 amp 14-50 plugs that EV owners could hook up their chargers to. That would give EV owners (not just Teslas) that piece of mind that they can take a road trip to the patch and get some juice before heading home.
I'll be honest, if the supercharger in Athens didn't exist, I probably would just be leaving the Tesla at home
I thought for sure the Space and Rocket center would have some fast charging but it looks like it only has a couple slow ones.
Glad to see some activity in this thread. I'm a TM3 owner since June, and I love it!
Do any of the rest of you frequent South Alabama? I'm really eager for a supercharger in Montgomery, as the Greenville and Auburn ones are out of the way for a family trip there. Tesla map says target 2019 for that location, but that looks impossible at this point.
My dad is in Montgomery and I agree we absolutely need a supercharger down there in Eastchase/Chantilly area. I THINK one is planned but no idea when anything is going to happen. I was down there this past weekend and made it down and back with some fun back roads driving with my dad and his wife to show them what the car could do and made it home with about 14% charge. He said he may just end up having an electrician install a 240v outlet for me to use when we come down there. We went to the chargers at Wholefoods across from Eastchase and they were pathetically slow (around 10 mi/hr). There was initially a supercharger area planned to be at the Zetec (I think?) green neon looking gas station right across the entrance to Eastchase on Chantilly but that fell through.
Anyways, we DO have superchargers in Birmingham. It's not right on the interstate and there is a LOT of construction around the area the superchargers but it's not too hard to reach and should take just a few minutes if you come from the right direction (north). I've been to it and that area numerous times and I always go up past I20 and jump off right past the big intersection at the 16th st exit and then come back down into downtown by the hall of fame bldg.
Sometimes you have to pay for parking, sometimes you don't. I haven't seen the parking lot barrier lowered in months. You can either pay a few bucks to leave or go into one of the restaurants or coffee shops and have them validate your parking ticket. It sucks but (when there's not a pandemic) it's a pretty packed out area and parking is hard to come by, even more so if there is an event going on at the BJCC.
The red arrow is the supercharger area and the red lines are closed down streets.
