Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !

time2roll wrote:

wilber1 wrote:
If EV's are going to be a success, all charging stations will need to be available to all vehicles, just like gas stations.

Here is a map. Zoom in a bit to your area.

https://www.plugshare.com/

Looks like there is or will soon be an electric path to Alaska. I had no idea this was moving so fast.

Good morning Time. One thing we have noticed here in BC is when Tesla builds a Supercharger now they add about 25 percent non Tesla chargers. So for example, they put in a Supercharger about 2 blocks from our house. It has 12 V3 Superchargers and 4 CCS/Chademo stations. Tesla doesn't run the FLO stations. They have an arrangement with FLO that Tesla does the installation but FLO runs their own stations. Tesla gets a grant to cover siting and permitting costs from the government which seems to average around 65000 dollars per location so I have read. They are adding 13 locations like this in BC this year. This location took the Tesla team 3 weeks from start to finish. They work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week including holidays. BC hydro takes about another week to put in their transformer and then the Tesla tech came back for a day for final inspection.

Fast charge locations in BC are growing fast right now and the plug share locations will probably double over the next 18 months.

Here's a couple pics. We were the first to charge at this one. But the reality is we will never use it as we charge at home. It has been busy since it opened last week though as we are on a crossroads of major routes including Vancouver to Calgary.



The day before it opened. You can see the four CCS/Chademo sites on the end.



This is another one about an hour away in Salmon Arm. You can see the 25 percent ration here again. This 8 and 3 ratio is pretty common in the smaller cities. Not sure and I have heard various versions of this but I have heard that Tesla is doing the maintenance on all all of them.



I'm told the Alaska corridor is still about three years to completion. They have a lot of safety sites to put in on that route. They also need to install a lot of lower powered "safety sites" which are 25 KW locations meant for winter emergencies etc.

Anyway. Thought that might be interesting.

Cheers