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No workers today so more pictures...
Thank you for the pictures Dag. The closest Supercharger is Cupertino, so this location is going to be popular (like most locations in the Bay Area).
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No workers today so more pictures...
As a child, I remember seeing the railroad all the way from there up into the hills winding around the canyons by 17, but then as an adult, I struggle to see any of the remains of it.Historical note: That alley used to be the path of the South Pacific Coast railroad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_Coast_Railroad) that led over the mountains to Santa Cruz. The tracks through Los Gatos and over the hill are long gone. In fact a portion of the route is now underwater at Lexington Reservoir. In a sense it is too bad, because it would be fairly scenic. And the alternative of driving Highway 17 is usually jam packed with traffic during commute hours and on weekends. But at least tourists can still ride along a bit of the western end of it via the Roaring Camp and Big Trees historic railroad.
They literally didn't have space to stuff everything on the same side of the parking lot and still leave room for the parking, driving lanes, and trees. The trenches are all dug, except for the final connection to source electricity, which I didn't find. In the pictures above, you can see the trench with pipes sticking up on one side and no pipes on the other side with a pad form: that's the PG&E connection to switch box, and it outputs to the AC-DC coverters on a few other pads to the right, then from each one of the AC-DC converter pads goes trenches across the parking lot to the other side where the charging pedestals are. All of that trenching and piping is already done. When I left, they were ready for whatever next step; perhaps inspection, perhaps sand or slurry, I do not know. Since the input from PG&E pipes still need to be done, I suspect that they'll either finish that first before filling everything in, or leave that out until later and start filling stuff in per the permission of the government. Either way, in terms of timeline, they'd get permission to fill everything in from the government soon, so that it isn't left open for long, and whether or not the PG&E input is included sooner or later I can't tell.Quite a bit of trenching work already. So appears they taking power from the building side of the lot and will be running it eventually under the parking lot to the other side. If they didn't need access to the back of the buildings it would have been more cost effective to use that side of the parking lot for charging purposes. Given how long Sunnyvale took to go active, I guess nothing is a given timewise but this looks like a good start.
Looks like there will be 25 stalls, if I counted correctly.
This object ended up being rather ugly:
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/media/5110e234-b53b-45b3-9855-5642e8adf82a.118332/
Other than that, everything looks great. I also noticed the excess number of stalls. When I asked, the guy said he couldn't talk. What kind of world do people like that grow up in when they think that everyone is some sort of foreign enemy? They do look like they're from out of state, so they may have that idea that California is not part of the USA or something. They succeeded in me losing interest until they're done.
This new picture system TMC has is awful. What used to be a single click is now about two dozen clicks.
wat?They do look like they're from out of state, so they may have that idea that California is not part of the USA or something.
Moderator note: Let’s cool it with the irrational comments about the workers at this new Supercharger site. Any public responses to what I am quoting here or to my post will be moved. If you want to discuss this with me send me a PM, and keep it civil. Thank you.When I asked, the guy said he couldn't talk. What kind of world do people like that grow up in when they think that everyone is some sort of foreign enemy? They do look like they're from out of state, so they may have that idea that California is not part of the USA or something
... The original permit was for 12 Superchargers and 4 J1772's (did I miss the other 2 Clipper Creeks?)...
I counted 8 superchargers. Shouldn't there be 12?