Supercharger - North Bend, WA - North Bend Outlets (under construction May 2024, 24 V4 stalls)

[Mrbrock]

Tesla has applied to install 24 V4 stalls at 421 South Fork Ave SW in North Bend, WA (North Bend Outlets).

@Big Earl @Guacahummus @corywright

@PLUS EV can go back to 9/15/18 and find this all over again...

Supercharger - North Bend, WA

I'm about 98-99% certain I have spotted a supercharger under construction in the eastern corner of the parking lot of the North Bend Premium Outlets. This is right next to the existing EVgo chargers. I took a bunch of pictures but it was well after dark and the site was kind of awkward to...

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[kilpatds]

EVgo, EA, and Tesla all in one spot? Do they just have the world's largest amount of surplus power there?

(Not just the same general area. The same region of the parking lot)

Although 24 dispensers is a lot... the EVgo station is just two, IIRC, and the EA station is one of their standard 4-dispenser stations, IIRC.

Edit: from a facilities perspective, that area is seriously lacking. All clothing stores, nothing that will sell you a coffee and the restrooms are also on the far side of the lot & kinda hidden

 

[Poiu]

Tesla has applied to install 24 V4 stalls at 421 South Fork Ave SW in North Bend, WA (North Bend Outlets).

Great that you found the permit. Tesla updated their charging locations on their web site in the last week or so and I saw that North Bend was now shown; I don't think it was there before. Forthcoming 16 stall Issaquah Supercharger is also shown, but I think was already listed.

16 new stalls in Issaquah, 24 in North Bend - huge expansion. Have to believe this is partially due to opening the network to NACS. I'm surprised there's no sign of an installation in Redmond yet.

 

[Astrochimp]

EVgo, EA, and Tesla all in one spot? Do they just have the world's largest amount of surplus power there?

(Not just the same general area. The same region of the parking lot)

Although 24 dispensers is a lot... the EVgo station is just two, IIRC, and the EA station is one of their standard 4-dispenser stations, IIRC.

Edit: from a facilities perspective, that area is seriously lacking. All clothing stores, nothing that will sell you a coffee and the restrooms are also on the far side of the lot & kinda hidden

I remember a Mongolian grill restaurant there. Can't find it now, but there is a "Best Burger Hut" and restrooms.

 

[Mrbrock]

This has been updated to ready to issue.

 

[ImScotty]

Drove by this morning, no activity to report at this time.

 

[Mrbrock]

Drove by this morning, no activity to report at this time.

WA is pretty good with the locator website so we will see something there before we see any site activity. Also, the permit should switch the issued before utilities are marked as well.

 

[Poiu]

Building permit was issued on 4/26.

 

[ImScotty]

Building permit was issued on 4/26.

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Let’s hope this one made the cut as the existing site gets PACKED in the summer.

 

[kilpatds]

My understanding from a youtube video[0] from a company that does a lot of installs for Tesla is that if it hasn't broken ground, it's likely getting axed.

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[Seattle]

Thanks for sharing that. Very interesting to see his perspective. Tesla will still make supercharger hardware, someone else will have to decide where to put, run the service. I'm skeptical that will work out well. Only tesla has done a good job at this. I learned recently some of the other dcfc systems had the site owners handle maintenance.

 

[Astrochimp]

My understanding from a youtube video[0] from a company that does a lot of installs for Tesla is that if it hasn't broken ground, it's likely getting axed.

[0]

Elon says that Tesla is spending (investing?) more than $500 million on superchargers this year, and since this is a high-need site, it probably wasn't killed.

I wonder how much of the unfinished superchargers in WA are just sitting there unfinished because contractors don't know what's going on because Tesla hasn't told them. Sometimes communications out of Tesla are inadequate.

 

[Mrbrock]

Looks like this one made it under the cutoff. 24 stalls in the middle. V3.5 cabinets. I’ll post more pics later.
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[Mrbrock]

Dig ticket. No mention of Tesla but Tapps has a banner on the fence.

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And electric permit.

 

[Mrbrock]

All important recycle and garbage cans.

Transformer will be to the south between the stores near the employee parking and shipping/receiving doors. Looks like trenching is done and conduit has been covered and repaved already.

 

[Seattle]

All important recycle and garbage cans.

Transformer will be to the south between the stores near the employee parking and shipping/receiving doors. Looks like trenching is done and conduit has been covered and repaved already.

Thanks for all the photos and reports. I don't know how we'll ever know when they have v4 electrical backend instead of v3 electrical + v4 dispensers. I don't even have a e-gmp 800v car, but I still want the capability ;-) 3000 amps, 480v, does that imply anything?

Edit, went back and looked at pics, I think it says v3.5 on that one photo that is a hard angle to read from the side - which is what I would expect.

 

[Mrbrock]

Thanks for all the photos and reports. I don't know how we'll ever know when they have v4 electrical backend instead of v3 electrical + v4 dispensers. I don't even have a e-gmp 800v car, but I still want the capability ;-) 3000 amps, 480v, does that imply anything?

Edit, went back and looked at pics, I think it says v3.5 on that one photo that is a hard angle to read from the side - which is what I would expect.

Yes, V3.5. We will know because Tesla will tell us the sites are capable of 500kw+ instead of 250kw. For compatible cars…

 

[Mrbrock]

@Big Earl @Guacahummus @corywright @Chuq
Construction cone por favor and GPS is slightly off. Center of the area is more SW than the current location.

 

[Mrbrock]

@Big Earl @Guacahummus @corywright @Chuq
Construction cone por favor and GPS is slightly off. Center of the area is more SW than the current location.
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@corywright these should also be listed as V4 on sc.info. I haven’t seen a site with V3.5 cabinets and V3 posts. Wouldn’t make any sense to combine those two pieces. Thanks!

 

[Seattle]

@corywright these should also be listed as V4 on sc.info. I haven’t seen a site with V3.5 cabinets and V3 posts. Wouldn’t make any sense to combine those two pieces. Thanks!

I defer to your expertise, but I would think we should call something V4 only if it has the never seen V4 cabinets and V4 posts together? I so want to see V4 cabinets, just to feel like there's going to be progress.