I just stopped over at Burlington for some SuperJuice. Yum...
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We arrived with 125 miles rated range, and tried all 4 chargers. Parking spot 1 and 2 (the left pull-in spot and first back-in spot on the picture below) are not active. Spot 4, 5 and 8 are active. (3+4, 5+6 and 7+8 should be sharing so this should confirm the right 6 of them).
We were able to charge at 370V, 177A, 66kW at the maximum (which started tapering down after 150). I think getting only 66kW means that the SuperCharger isn't fully operational yet - I was expecting something closer to 90 or 120 until the 150 miles rated range. However, it's still a heck of a lot faster than anything I've ever seen.
After initially playing around, we plugged it into spot 5 when it was at 130 miles on the reading and 30 minutes later it was at 223 miles (93 miles added). Stopped it at 240 miles (110 miles added) after 38 minutes.
This is actually an important test for me, and probably others. I live in Redmond, and frequently drive up to Vancouver and Whistler. Starting in Redmond or Seattle means you're always going to arrive at Burlington with over 120 miles range. But to get from Burlington to Whistler without another stop you really need to charge up to 240 miles. This proves you can get the juice you need to get to Whistler in less than 40 minutes (and it will probably improve further).
HINT: If you think 40 minutes is long to wait... adopt a dog. After initially playing around with other chargers, then finally leaving it into spot 5 to do a real charge, we did the following:
* Took the dogs out for a quick walk (To the grass at Bob's burgers and back).
* Hopped into Jack In The Box to get a burger for us (and the doggies of course) - no line.
* Ate the burger in the car (we don't trust the dogs alone in the car yet).
* Threw away the trash and went to the bathroom
This is pretty much on par with every stop we've been doing for the last 7 years when we have the dogs with us. And it was an in-and-out stop, not trying to waste any time (since we didn't actually need any charge). In that time the car charged up 110 miles (from the 130-level that we started at), and it just happened to have taken 38 minutes. I would have never imagined our stops took this long before, but with dogs, they do. I believe those SuperChargers will eventually operate at twice the rate we got today, but it's already at the point where it's going to give me more charge than I actually need given my current stop times.
PS: Another interesting bit, when I plugged into 2 of the chargers initially, it was giving a charge rate reading in kW. When I unplugged at 240 rated and plugged into another charger the reading switch to mi/hours added. Not sure why.
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