Supercharger - Oakland, CA - 2nd Street (LIVE 22 Nov 2020, 12 urban stalls)

[J95630]

Superchargers inside parking garage is a problem because it’s controlled by 3rd party or parking owners. They close or lock up during off hours or other reasons. Just to be safe, I just go to alameda for SC.

 

[israndy]

I have been tracking this Supercharger's usage with that App I am writing and it looks like there are people coming and going at all hours, but this weekend I didn't see any usage between 11 pm Saturday and Sunday and 6 am the next day, but perhaps no one showed up.

I wonder if the person who is staffing the site doesn't need to take a meal break and has to lock the place up while he is gone. Weird that they put up the sign "Out of Order", when "Back in 30 min." would seem much more helpful. What would happen if you came back to get your car at 11:05 pm, that would suck, but I guess I have had that happen at garages in SF before, and it did suck.

 

[israndy]

I am not able to figure out a pattern by just tracking the usage at the station, there doesn't seem to be a closing time, but I often will not see any charging between 7 pm and 6 am. So I was driving back from the new Stockton SC and thought it being 2 am I'd give a peek at the Oakland 2nd st. and sure enough, the gates were down and a big Out Of Order sign was erected on a stand despite the big red SUPERCHARGERS sign.

But while I was struggling to get the perfect framing for a photo to represent this, a car pulled up to the isle not labelled Out of Order and pulled a ticket and the gate rose above his head and he drove into the garage, DUH! So obvious, if that dumb Out of Order sign wasn't distracting people from trying to get in.

 

[MarcoRP]

Cables cut on half the stalls

https://twitter.com/x/status/1522399040838586368

 

[Dave EV]

Cables cut on half the stalls

https://twitter.com/x/status/1522399040838586368

I wonder why Tesla doesn't start using V3 or a lighter weight cable on Urban stalls and the V3 cable on V2 stalls. Would save a lot of copper and make the cables less valuable for people just stealing the cables for scrap.

Though if stealing them for scrap, why leave 1 ft+ of cable on the post...

 

[totoro722]

I wonder why Tesla doesn't start using V3 or a lighter weight cable on Urban stalls and the V3 cable on V2 stalls. Would save a lot of copper and make the cables less valuable for people just stealing the cables for scrap.

Though if stealing them for scrap, why leave 1 ft+ of cable on the post...

Envy, not greed

 

[mociaf9]

Cables cut on half the stalls

https://twitter.com/x/status/1522399040838586368

Wow, that was quite considerate of the thieves/vandals to not take all the cables at the site so that it remained at least partially functional.

 

[rayluis1988]

It is inside a parking garage, hopefully they have cameras.

 

[Klaus]

I was in Alameda today and was thinking of charging there for a few minutes. The Tesla nav wanted me to turn right inside the Posey tube into the parking garage and then pretended I had arrived before I was exiting the tunnel. You have to go underneath I880 before you can turn right on 7th. WTF?

 

[israndy]

Why are maps not three dimensional?? I get the same issue when leaving, it guides you right to a dead end and says, keep going forward, down below I see the tube coming up from under the bay.