GoBlue88
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I live in Carlsbad, but I would like to state for the record that this person was not me. I hung out at home all day yesterday watching football. :biggrin:Yesterday - Sunday afternoon was pretty much Tesla Motorsclub gathering at the SJC Superchargers: 6 cars waiting to charge at 4pm.
Charger 1A is broken. Two chargers had cars parked in a spot for over 1.5 hour. Owners came to pick up car (new car, just picked up from Fremont, had 263 miles when I peeked inside the dash). Another guy was from Carlsbad (25 miles away) and was just picking up free electricity - he charged to 225 miles (I guess that's his value of his personal time: saved a couple of dollars and spent an hour at the SC).
Then comes a car full of older folks who have never used a supercharger: funny scene watching them attempt to disconnect cars to plug theirs in, but they soon learned the proper etiquette.
Rumors about more superchargers across the street at an empty parking lot from Union Bank. Also rumors about Carlsbad service center and SC.
Lots of good people hanging out, lots of folks oblivious (or entitled?) to the fact that it's uncool to keep one's car in a SC spot for 90-120 minutes.
It does sound like some folks do a max charge at SJC b/c they are traveling to San Diego, and are concerned about not being able to charge in SD (folks: look on plugshare or go to the service center). I guess a SC in downtown SD +/- Carlsbad will help.
I was at the San Diego service center a couple of weeks ago to have a few things looked at and one of the employees confirmed that there will be a Carlsbad service center in our future. Apparently there are so many Teslas in San Diego county that the one service center is struggling to handle the load. Also, he wasn't sure if the new Carlsbad service center would have a supercharger as well, or just HPWCs.