philh wrote:
250kw? That's a mighty big wire and transformer.
WRT to electric efficiency, did the calculation include the energy needed to charge the battery?
Yep. Typical Superchargers have 12 to 24 V3 250 KW supercharger stalls with some having over 50. The biggest is/will be Harris ranch in California with over 100 stalls although some of those close to th restaurants are 150 KW stalls. A little slower so you have time to eat.
Some are as small as 6 or 8 stalls like this one in BC Canada,
Many are 16 stalls like this one at a Flying J in Hope BC
The bigger ones are 24 or 32 stalls and some are configured as drive thru (but it limits access to a stall when used like this)
Kettleston on I5 is over 50 stalls but can't remember how many.
They are building one 3 blocks form our house and FLO (another charge chain) is contracting Tesla to install their DC fast chargers although they are much slower (100 KW) so use a lot less juice. This is not a picture of the one near our place but same configuration. So 16 total stalls, 12 are Tesla and 4 are FLO.
The amount of supercharger locations in our province will almost double to 40 this year and the amount of Supercharger stalls more than doubled. Non Tesla DC fast chargers have also pretty much doubled in the last 18 months. There is a push on right now to get the groundwork done before the freeze up. The crew working on the one close to us works 7 days a week 12 days a week. Its a roving crew though. The first guys, excavators and concrete etc have already moved on to the next one. Amazing to watch.
