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Wagga Superchargers are up and close to completion!! 6 x stalls
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Supercharger - Wagga Wagga, NSW
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Zoltrix77
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I totally agree about this back of no where chargers at 2AM, but think the "especially female" bit is a little unwarranted.
An interesting commentary about the implementation of DC charging from a major Canadian chain gas station operator. While he is obviously biased wrt repurposing gas stations for EV, he does have a point.
PcS000
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Yeah, true - I'd be very happy with Cowra too. Just something between Bathurst/Orange (other than the NRMA charger in Young, which I have heard can be a pest sometimes). ABRP says it's possible without a charge (ending up with 5% when I get home) but the car wants to go through Gundagai.NRMA chargers at both Cowra and Young get a lot of checkins. I used Young once last year - it tripped after about 10 minutes and I had to unplug, re-holster, then start again for it to work. Current Plugshare reports indicate that is still happening. I tried to use the one at Cowra once, just because I was driving by and wanted to get my check-in count up(I didn’t actually need to charge), but someone turned up about 2 minutes before I did. And that was lunchtime on a weekday!
Curious... probably some miscommunication with the charge speed (did someone read something on the cabinet?) but the gate PIN solution makes sense as they have done elsewhere.
Didn't know they could link these gate systems to your Tesla keycard though?
RichardV
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Though the real metric of interest for the grid connection is the power of the cabinets not the max power to the cars. Each V3 cabinet can do 387kW at 480V (US voltage with PF 1) or for Australia 320-335 kW depending on power factor and three phase voltage 400V to 415V. (or in China at 380V around 305kW, presumably why they tend to 3 cars per cabinet instead of the 4 per cabinet in the US.)
A photo of the face plate of the cabinets here would show if they are just standard v3 cabinets, also used to date in all v4 site installs that I have seen note this detail they have just used the same v3 cabinet and just newer v4 pedestals, or if this 425kW does somehow relate to some new v4 style cabinet but I would doubt that given the v3 pedestals.
RichardV
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I think this is new. Would match the transformer required for a 2 cabinet v3 supercharger install.
Essential energy map update happened on,
Would mean that you would expect a kiosk style substation(or do pole transformers go to 750kVA?) and trenching work here,
No, my understanding is the pole transformers only go up to 50kVA or was it 63kVA?.
Pad mounted are generally 300, 500, 750, 1000kVA
RichardV
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There are 500kVA pole mount transformers.
This one was recently added for Mudgee NRMA,
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Some new photos from X/Twitter.
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The work is nearing completion although they are not working today.
The gate keypad is 10 metres
from the gate.
Direction of approach
The gate keypad is 10 metres
Direction of approach
I was looking into the trip planner for Adelaide to Sydnet for a M3RWD.
Currently it recommends going Keith, Horsham, Euroa, Gundagai, Goulburn so a little bit of a diversion but gives a good opportunity to stop in and support local businesses in the country towns. If i was in a hurry or it was school/xmas holiday id just fly and hire a car haha.
Hopefully some more chargers come online along the main routes, Adelaide could do with some more too..
Report on FB that Wagga should be active from Thu 14/9 (chat with electrician)
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