I would love to see the northern route from Jasper to Saskatoon to begin with. They could get by with a supercharger at the Innisfree truck stop, Lloydminster and North Battleford for the east side. And perhaps Hinton and Edson for the west side. Those superchargers would cover 95% of my travel.
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Stopped by Squamish over the weekend and it looks to be well along for expansion. Large area fenced off, looks like they're adding a number of stalls and lots of boxes of equipment are on site. Didn't get a picture, will try to grab one this coming weekend, I expect to be there again.
scrmn
Member
Regina 2018
Nice to see that Tesla is working on its 'end of 2018' sites
Been informed that Tesla is talking to SmartCenters about putting a supercharger on their site
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Right of off the TransCanada
Nice to see that Tesla is working on its 'end of 2018' sites
Been informed that Tesla is talking to SmartCenters about putting a supercharger on their site
Google Maps
Right of off the TransCanada
Could have used this one a few months ago! Wanted to road trip to the WHL finals but it looked like I'd be spending too many hours at Kal Tire along the way, so I passed.
Drove through Squamish again this past weekend, there are 4 new chargers set up including a pull-in forward one. The area is still fenced off but looks like it should be opened up soon. This will make 10 in total for this site.
Charged up in Squamish today. Took some quick photos to show progress. Apologi s for poor quality, it was raining hard and dark.
Looks like they have 4 new chargers on opposite side of the old ones. They also extended the original from 2 to 6. Bringing the total to 10.
Though the lights are on, fence is still up in the new area. Not sure if any more are planned or if they need more time with current ones before signing off.
Interestingly, they replaced two of the original ones with new ones. And all the new ones have a fancy light underneath the Tesla sign so the cable is lit up. Not sure how long they have had those types in other locations.
Looks like they have 4 new chargers on opposite side of the old ones. They also extended the original from 2 to 6. Bringing the total to 10.
Though the lights are on, fence is still up in the new area. Not sure if any more are planned or if they need more time with current ones before signing off.
Interestingly, they replaced two of the original ones with new ones. And all the new ones have a fancy light underneath the Tesla sign so the cable is lit up. Not sure how long they have had those types in other locations.
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Sorry, I meant they extended the original side from 4 stalls to 6. Total stations thus far are 10 including the ones in fenced area.
Lon12
Member
Every time I've charged a the Kelowna SuperCharger my car does not detect the proximity of my key fob and will not extend the door handles. I've had to click the key fob to open the doors. Has anyone else had this problem there?
dasRad
Member
It’s not just you. Interestingly the rear hatch does open on touch of the button above the license plate, so it “sees” the fob. I can’t recall if the doors respond to touch / proximity after the rear hatch has opened, or if I still have to click the fob.
MonkeyBC
Member
There always were 6 stalls at this location so from what you said they have added the 4 opposite the originals :^)
Oh! I’m wrong again. The replacement chargers confused me as they haven’t, as of yet, replaced all the original ones.
Thanks for the correction.
Just a note on improvement at Cross Iron. I was down visiting relatives outside of Calgary this weekend; due to the insanity that has become “Black Friday” I decided to charge a little longer in Red Deer on the way down, figuring Cross Iron would be a zoo. On the way back however, I had no choice and pulled in to the mall with 23% remaining. All of the Supercharger stalls were barricaded off with those metal crowd-control fences. Myself and another fellow pulled in at the same time and shared the thought that we hoped the barricades were there to leave the stalls open for charging, and not because the chargers were out of order. This was in fact the case, so despite the mall parking lot being absolutely jammed, we had all 8 stalls available. I needed a long charge to make it home, but left at 92% and had no trouble at all on the way home - a strong tail-wind all the way was a big help.
So, kudos to the mall. I was extremely grateful, as had the chargers been blocked or inoperative we would have been stuck somewhere for hours getting enough charge to make Red Deer.
Interestingly, the other fellow that started charging at the same time as us was still in his car when we came back out, and only just before we left did he head in to the mall. I really hope he was just going for a quick bathroom or snack break before leaving, and not going in to do some shopping as he had been charging for an hour already so he must have been pretty close to topped off, and I would hate to think he was using the convenience of the charging stalls as a form of reserved parking even after he was done charging. That’s a problem we don’t need to start having here.
Phillip L
Gas Passer
I bet you that he was off to get his wife/kids to bring them back to the car after he dropped them off to shop on the way into the parking area. Those parking garages can be like the maze of the Minotaur.
That could totally be the case, and I’d like to think it was an innocuous situation like that. I’ll be hitting this Supercharger again over the Xmas break, I sure hope they continue to make it easy to charge there.
scrmn
Member
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