Tesla Supercharger network

[Bet TSLA]

Purchasing a new S. My sales consultant told me that a Supercharger is currently under construction in Charleston WVA. I see from reviewing threads that this has been promised for years! Does anyone know if one is under construction or not?

Your sales consultant might be misinformed, but there's no way to tell without looking. Ask for the address. Let us know. Chances are somebody will go check it out, perhaps you can do so yourself. Be a hero!

It's pretty clear there's a big hole there, and Tesla has been busy filling in all the holes on the east coast, so it seems likely enough to me.

 

[emupilot]

Purchasing a new S. My sales consultant told me that a Supercharger is currently under construction in Charleston WVA. I see from reviewing threads that this has been promised for years! Does anyone know if one is under construction or not?

Thanks for the heads-up. Tips like this get the Tesla Motors Club sleuths in action searching city council minutes, planning commission minutes, building permits, and potential sites on the ground. I couldn't find anything online but I have sent an e-mail to the Charleston Building Commission, which handles permitting and inspections. I will report what they say if I hear back.

 

[Rmsosu]

Thanks for the heads-up. Tips like this get the Tesla Motors Club sleuths in action searching city council minutes, planning commission minutes, building permits, and potential sites on the ground. I couldn't find anything online but I have sent an e-mail to the Charleston Building Commission, which handles permitting and inspections. I will report what they say if I hear back.

I emailed all members of the Charleston city council yesterday. So far me response.

 

[Chuq]

A couple of SC threads which have been on the backburner for a while:

Joplin MO - Supercharger Joplin, Missouri
Midland TX - Supercharger - Midland, TX

These ones look like actual sites - but they aren't on supercharge.info - can anyone offer further confirmation?

Ping @BlueShift

 

[Rmsosu]

I emailed all members of the Charleston city council yesterday. So far me response.

So fat no response

 

[Rmsosu]

So fat no response

I'll try again ...so far no response

 

[vinnie97]

You can edit your posts (though I don't remember/know if there's an editing embargo for new members).

 

[Chuq]

You can edit your posts (though I don't remember/know if there's an editing embargo for new members).

Since the forum upgrade it seems to be limited to 10-30 minutes after posting.

 

[AMPd]

Battery storage at SC sites cannot come fast enough!
If the reports of TM throttling charge rate at the San Diego SC, at the request of SDG&E are true then TM will need a lot of battery storage!... And solar!

The number of EVs on the roads are only going up, public charging station locations are also growing, which increases demand for electricity.

I remember reading a study about the impact of electric cars on the grid and they kept reiterating the fact that most EV owners charge at night when there's plenty of electricity to spare.
But what about when those EVs are charging during the day? Supercharger + public charging use is highest during the day, and that use is growing.
Obviously this is a problem the utility needs to solve, I just think Tesla and their utility sized battery storage packs can play a major role in implementing the solution.
(Which in my opinion is storage, why not have thousands of megawatts of batteries that can be charged at night with the spare electricity and used during the day when demand rises)

 

[Electroman]

Supercharging usage (day plus night) would be less than 5% compared to overall home charging at night

 

[AMPd]

Supercharging usage (day plus night) would be less than 5% compared to overall home charging at night

Care to share how you came up with the 5% figure?

 

[Chuq]

Many sites/organisations (including, Plug in America, I think) have put the usage at 90% home charging, 5% overnight away-from-home charging, and 5% fast charging on long trips.

 

[AMPd]

Many sites/organisations (including, Plug in America, I think) have put the usage at 90% home charging, 5% overnight away-from-home charging, and 5% fast charging on long trips.

Interesting

 

[jerry33]

Many sites/organisations (including, Plug in America, I think) have put the usage at 90% home charging, 5% overnight away-from-home charging, and 5% fast charging on long trips.

I think this statistic includes non-Teslas but I could be wrong about that. If you take my driving:

Total 73K miles 41 months
- 50% commuting so 37K is always a night charge.
- 8% are multi day trips, so the SCs are all day with overnight destination charging. 2% night, 6% day
- 42% are average trips (one driving day) with 4-5 SCs each way, but one of those is at night. 8% night, 34% day
So adding them up 60% is night charging and 40% day.

Now not everyone has my driving pattern, but I'd be surprised if it averaged out to only 5% SC or CHAdeMO usage. The 5% would be correct if days rather than distance are counted.

 

[Chuq]

I think this statistic includes non-Teslas but I could be wrong about that. If you take my driving:

Good point - that's very likely. A lot of Leaf owning families (for example) have two cars, use their Leaf only for city driving and their other car for longer trips.

 

[emupilot]

The following is a list of the North American superchargers which opened in the last month and upcoming superchargers TMC has heard about. Sites with a known location are shown at supercharge.info; details of all sites are at the Supercharger Progress wiki. 5 new North American stations opened over the last month, and we should expect around 10 new openings this month.

Location	Site Known?	Status
Buena Park, CA	yes	under construction
Crescent City, CA	yes	under construction
Eureka, CA	yes	awaiting transformer & hookup
Folsom (Palladio), CA	yes	awaiting transformer & hookup
Fremont (Kato Road), CA	yes	under construction hiatus
Groveland, CA	yes	in permitting
Napa, CA	yes	operational
Santa Ana, CA	yes	in permitting
Santa Barbara, CA	yes	in permitting
South Lake Tahoe, CA	no	unknown
Coralville, IA	yes	awaiting transformer & hookup
Davenport, IA	no	unknown
West Des Moines, IA	yes	under construction
Monroe, LA	mostly	awaiting transformer & hookup
Lee, MA	yes	under construction
Laurel, MD	yes	awaiting transformer & hookup
Brewer, ME	yes	awaiting transformer & hookup
Bay City, MI	yes	in permitting
Port Huron, MI	yes	awaiting power on & testing
Oakdale, MN	yes	awaiting transformer & hookup
Joplin, MO	maybe	in site negotiations
Rolla, MO	yes	under construction
Springfield, MO	yes	in permitting
Meridian, MS	yes	in permitting
Lima, MT	yes	in design / permitting
Fargo, ND	no	searching for site
Gothenburg, NE	no	searching for site
Lincoln, NE	no	searching for site
North Platte/Ogallala, NE	no	searching for site
Queensbury, NY	yes	operational
Catoosa, OK	yes	operational
Bandon, OR	yes	in permitting
Lincoln City, OR	yes	under construction
Memphis, TN	yes	in permitting
Arlington, TX	yes	in design/permitting
Cisco, TX	yes	awaiting power on & testing
Midland, TX	maybe	in design/permitting
Sweetwater, TX	yes	operational
Wausau, WI	no	searching for site
Jackson, WY	yes	in permitting
Huntsville, ON	yes	under construction
Parry Sound, ON	yes	under construction
Rivière-du-Loup, QC	yes	awaiting construction
Saint-Laurent, QC	yes	operational

 

[NOLA_Mike]

Should change Monroe, LA from "mostly" to "yes"

 

[jrreno]

Naples Florida is in permitting

 

[ReddyLeaf]

Good point - that's very likely. A lot of Leaf owning families (for example) have two cars, use their Leaf only for city driving and their other car for longer trips.

Yup, put me in that category. I never commute in the Tesla (8 mi RT), instead bicycling in summer and Leafing in the winter. ALL of my Tesla miles are out of town trips, and almost exclusively with supercharging. Yes, I know I'm not normal.

 

[AMPd]

Took a trip to LA from Sacramento, stopped to charge at Manteca, Harris Ranch, buttonwillow. All charged at no more than 170+ amps, coming back it was late at night, same thing, did not charge at more than 170+ amps
Then to add salt to the wounds, there was a line of 6 cars at Burbank, which had 2 stalls out of order, waited over an hour and a half to get a stall, then another hour+ to get enough range to get to buttonwillow
I only had 26 miles of range and was unable to go to Culver City