Supercharger - St Leonards NSW

BlueShift said:

Construction of superchargers at this location has started. Picture attached. I'll link to this thread from supercharge.info.

10 Herbert St - Showroom 22065 St LeonardsNew South Wales


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Great at find Blueshift and thanks again for creating Supercharge.info!!!

Congrats Australia, on starting your supercharger network. May your journey be less painful than our experience here in Canada! !

TESLARATI and JET Charge are both sending live tweets with photo's from the launch event in Sydney, Australia.

On one photo we see the Australia Supercharger Network 2016 Roadmap. We see 16 red balloons on the East Coast of Australia from Melbourne to Brisbane and a bit further norht.

Benz said:

TESLARATI and JET Charge are both sending live tweets with photo's from the launch event in Sydney, Australia.

On one photo we see the Australia Supercharger Network 2016 Roadmap. We see 16 red balloons on the East Coast of Australia from Melbourne to Brisbane and a bit further norht.

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The first two Supercharger stations in Australia will be in Sydney: the star casino, then the store in St Leonard's.

Benz said:

On one photo we see the Australia Supercharger Network 2016 Roadmap. We see 16 red balloons on the East Coast of Australia from Melbourne to Brisbane and a bit further norht.

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I assume Teslarati won't mind a direct link to the photo.

TESLARATI on Twitter: "Superchargers!"

Moderators Note
I renamed this thread for consistency with other Supercharger threads.

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I visited St Leonards last Sunday on my way to the West Gosford meet and only 2 Supercharger bays are in operation, three have covers with "Coming Soon" written on them. Apparently they are waiting on a new sub station before they can enable the remaining bays.

I was at St Leonards today for Tesla to rotate the wheels and noticed the new Sub Station is in place. It is around the corner in Frederick Street but is not yet active.
I'll try and get a Pic when I go back later today.

meloccom said:

I was at St Leonards today for Tesla to rotate the wheels and noticed the new Sub Station is in place. It is around the corner in Frederick Street but is not yet active.
I'll try and get a Pic when I go back later today.

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Thanks for that update meloccom. I had always noticed the covers on the superchargers whenever I visited the store and never piped up to enquire about them. So now I know.

It was craned in while I was there yesterday.

So don't know if this is new news or not but a friend of mine was charging at St Leonard's this afternoon and was getting a charging rate of 600Km/Hr, the fastest I had ever seen before was something in the 400s. Must be due to the electrical upgrade being completed?

TesAus said:

So don't know if this is new news or not but a friend of mine was charging at St Leonard's this afternoon and was getting a charging rate of 600Km/Hr, the fastest I had ever seen before was something in the 400s. Must be due to the electrical upgrade being completed?

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That's a shy over 100kW so perhaps it can draw that much when the showroom is completely closed. However, it should be able to pull 120kW at that state of charge, so I assume upgrades are not complete.

Not this morning it didn't. was getting 150 km/hr. About the usual. The new substation is nowhere near ready yet. Went to look. huge cables being stripped and spliced.

TesAus said:

So don't know if this is new news or not but a friend of mine was charging at St Leonard's this afternoon and was getting a charging rate of 600Km/Hr, the fastest I had ever seen before was something in the 400s. Must be due to the electrical upgrade being completed?

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I believe it is because the battery was nearly flat. In that case the supercharger can really ramp up production without any fear of overcharging the battery. It slows down progressively as the battery charges.

Supposedly this Supercharger is getting 2 stalls adapted for Model 3 use. @Chuq @rohan3au

Mr. PlugShare said:

Supposedly this Supercharger is getting 2 stalls adapted for Model 3 use.

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It's already done, 1A & 1B.

Yep, recorded on the spreadsheet! (FYI for others in case you didn't know about it - Supercharger CCS Tracker - Australia/New Zealand )

Mr. PlugShare said:

Supposedly this Supercharger is getting 2 stalls adapted for Model 3 use. @Chuq @rohan3au View attachment 417499

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I don't know what they are thinking only changing 2 stalls out of 6. The Model 3 will be a mass volume car for Tesla. By December in all likelihood there will be more Model 3s in circulation than all the other Teslas sold to date combined. Why not change all the stalls?? This is stupid. Those 2 stalls will be barely enough to keep the model 3s for test drives and deliveries charged (and yes I know that they also have HPWC)

djayz said:

Those 2 stalls will be barely enough to keep the model 3s for test drives and deliveries charged (and yes I know that they also have HPWC)

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St. Leonards no longer does test drives (only Martin Place) and all deliveries are now at Alexandria, it's now just a service centre with superchargers.