It’s not fleet south but I saw some images on Facebook of the Norwich service centre and all the tombstones are in with just the remaining ground works to complete. Switch on there could be imminent *if* all the DNO stuff is ready to go.
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You can now zoom out and see all Superchargers too, rather just being limited to the car’s locality.Pricing in the app is a great touch. Very useful
Reports of Tesla marshals at Tebay Supercharger this bank holiday. Likely response to the Christmas holiday frenzy videos that went viral
Not sure. Maybe stop people jumping aheadWhat do they do? Are they organising queues?
I’m sure they could add some sort of virtual queue in the app, when you are within a close gps range pit you to the back of the queue then when it’s your turn give you the charger number and 5 minutes to plug in and start charging?Not sure. Maybe stop people jumping ahead
Its a random Tuesday so you might be OK. My advice would be to use the nav to find out how busy it is and have enough charge that you can move on if it is really bad so you are not stranded there in a big queue.I’m travelling south today with it scheduling a stop at Tebay. Should I try avoid there?
Used this on Saturday, Grange Park looked busy as always so just went here instead, all stalls available and faster too, only downside is its a 5min walk to Costa. I wonder if this site is too far from the M1 for people to consider it (3 miles if that)Northampton Service Centre Supercharger also went live yesterday!
Here's a Twitter reference with a couple of pictures from 6th April. 12 stalls in the ground powered by charger 3 cabinets.It’s not fleet south but I saw some images on Facebook of the Norwich service centre and all the tombstones are in with just the remaining ground works to complete. Switch on there could be imminent *if* all the DNO stuff is ready to go.
Yes - I was there on Friday just after two guys had turned up (around 11.00). They had hi viz Tesla jackets, a box of chocolate lollipops (for families in need of a pick-me-up) and a set of road cones, and they were trying to figure out how best to organise an orderly queue as new drivers arrived. Although they explained they were working it out as they went along they were coordinating with other Tebay staff who were managing the whole car park (it was quickly filling up). It worked really well and certainly made my wait a lot less stressful (it was about 20 minutes before I was able to charge).What do they do? Are they organising queues?
Tebay is cheating, there's loads of space. I'd like to see them do Abington or GretnaYes - I was there on Friday just after two guys had turned up (around 11.00). They had hi viz Tesla jackets, a box of chocolate lollipops (for families in need of a pick-me-up) and a set of road cones, and they were trying to figure out how best to organise an orderly queue as new drivers arrived. Although they explained they were working it out as they went along they were coordinating with other Tebay staff who were managing the whole car park (it was quickly filling up). It worked really well and certainly made my wait a lot less stressful (it was about 20 minutes before I was able to charge).
The guys at Tebay said they would be there until Easter Monday. I've read that Easter weekend is the busiest period of the year for traffic - even busier than Christmas. Queue management like this is probably only really necessary at exceptionally busy periods - I'm sure Tesla have looked into methods of queue management as this sort of thing has been happening in California and elsewhere outside the UK for years; perhaps they have concluded that due to human factors the best solution is to occasionally send out staff at peak times.
The layout at Tebay (cul de sac with room to wait opposite chargers) means queue jumping is unlikely. Four more ultra rapids southbound (non-Tesla) plus six northbound later this year may help too. In contrast, cross words were being exchanged at Hopwood Park last Monday lunchtime as some queuing Tesla drivers were unluckily/unfairly unable to get to spaces as they freed up due to the layout of the car park. There was often a queue of general traffic blocking all the chargers and some new Tesla arrivals were able to nip in without noticing others waiting nearby but blocked in.
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I'd like to see the UK sites at the top of this leaderboard. There's a lot of people watching this thread and we are clearly not as hungry for superchargers as the Hungarians and South KoreansI'd like to see them do Abington or Gretna