Vancouver WA Supercharger (New! Vancouver Mall)

[matt_net_zero]

One's that I know of are in Seattle and Kettleman City, CA. I'm sure many more do.

I saw several stations with L2 chargers in the same lot as the superchargers. One was in Reno, don't recall where I saw the others.

 

[mociaf9]

God this was such a stupid mistake. They could have easily turned the chargers the right way and keep the existing parking lines. Someone in the installation group didn't understand where our charge ports are located. This lot has directional arrows that alternate on each row. Of course they could just reline but clearly whoever oversaw this was only familiar with Leafs of other ev's with front charge ports. You'll have two rows of parking going the same direction. Doubt that it will be dangerous or anything just could have been avoided.

You're misunderstanding the layout/orientation. This will work perfectly and the people who designed the site knew exactly what they were doing because they've designed literally hundreds of supercharger locations. This orientation preserves the one-way parking lanes that are extant in the parking lot and makes for much easier and safer entry/exit for the cars charging since the aisle is only one lane wide. But I admit that it is a somewhat unusual layout. And since you're by no means the only one having trouble visualizing what it's going to look like, I've spent a few minutes to draw it for you all with MS Paint (no comments on my artistic abilities, or lack thereof, please). The grey lines will be the final parking layout after they are done restriping. The pink dashes are the existing lines that will be removed. Red ovals = supercharger pedestals, green line = charging cable. The blue Model 3 is obviously parked back-in. If you're having trouble seeing how the cars will get into the spaces like that, see this comment from earlier in the thread.

 

[iwannam3]

Vancouver mall 3/12/2020 update. The parking will be as above. I backed in and they used my car to mock up the location of the rubber curbs. Paving is done, bark dust applied, utility transformer in, talked to guy working there, he said a couple weeks still for the utility to finish off their work. Striping is not done yet.

 

[scott1954wa]

Vancouver mall 3/12/2020 update. The parking will be as above. I backed in and they used my car to mock up the location of the rubber curbs. Paving is done, bark dust applied, utility transformer in, talked to guy working there, he said a couple weeks still for the utility to finish off their work. Striping is not done yet. View attachment 521082 View attachment 521083

So today, they finished resurfacing the parking spots and painted the new parking lines. The power is not active yet.

 

[ReddyLeaf]

So, once again, they won’t put the parking stops back far enough. Looks to me like they should be at least 1 ft farther, and maybe 2 ft.

 

[JamesBond]

So, once again, they won’t put the parking stops back far enough. Looks to me like they should be at least 1 ft farther, and maybe 2 ft.

I'm not sure I agree with that. In the pictures of the destination chargers, note that it's where the charger is on the right side of the car that matters, and it looks like with the Tesla in the picture there, the charger is plenty close for the charging cable to reach easily.

 

[1965Falcon]

Drove by yesterday on my way home, they were just finishing the striping. Layout as expected with back in parking. Hopefully someday the Mall will have something open while I use those destination chargers...

 

[wenkan]

It appears on Tesla official map.

 

[PLUS EV]

Vancouver, WA - NE Vancouver Mall Drive Supercharger | Tesla

@Chuq @MarcoRP

This should be good enough to update supercharge.info. Stay at home order in WA right now which explains why no one has been out there to supercharge just yet.

I wouldn't want to encourage anyone to leave the house right now, but if you are driving through the area, maybe stop and verify and take a pic with the bollards lit up

 

[DanL3]

I drove by about 10 am but did not notice. If I had seen the post before that I would have stopped. Maybe I'll go back later.

 

[scott1954wa]

They are live!!

 

[scott1954wa]

However destination chargers did not seem to be active

 

[1965Falcon]

You might be the first one to charge!

 

[ChrisH]

This seemed quick.

 

[Kuhz]

Cmon Tesla. This was too quick! This thread is only 7 pages

 

[PLUS EV]

However destination chargers did not seem to be active

@acarney will have to be patient.

 

[WFrank]

This is a V3 Supercharger and needs the Pin changed from Red to PURPLE

 

[melindav]

this is the only supercharger I've seen where the cable/handle is backwards. from the car side, the handle is on the right instead of the left. when I went to try it out at 6am, my 6am brain was very confused. lol

Melinda on Twitter

also is not yet shown in the car's display as an online supercharger.

 

[DanL3]

this is the only supercharger I've seen where the cable/handle is backwards. from the car side, the handle is on the right instead of the left. when I went to try it out at 6am, my 6am brain was very confused. lol
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My Wife Likes Left Handed chargers.

 

[1965Falcon]

also is not yet shown in the car's display as an online supercharger.

Did the miles show up on your account? FYI, looks like we have the same car. Red DL w/19" wheels.