Last November Electrify America predicted that nine of their locations would be open by the end of the year in California. I didn’t quite work out that way.
Of that original list, only three have actually opened:
- Country Hill Shopping Plaza, 2965 Rolling Hills, Torrance, CA.
- Walmart Supercenter, 8465 Elk Grove Blvd., Elk Grove, CA
- San Francisco Premium Outlets, 2774 Livermore Outlets Dr., Livermore, CA
The Torrance and Elk Grove locations are community charge sites with three 50 kW charging spaces and a single 32A AC charging stand. The Livermore site is a highway location along I-580 with 10 charging spaces although two of them have been initially offline.
Country Hill Shopping Plaza in Torrance.
Electrify America’s location in Elk Grove
The entire Elk Grove site appeared to be offline for several days after initially opening but whatever that problem was it appears to have been resolved now.
Of the remaining six sites, the four charging space highway location in Dunnigan on I-5 just north of Sacramento looks fully ready to bring online but for unknown reasons it still is not open.
An empty transformer pad at the Novato site.
The eight charging space highway location in Novato on US-101 was missing a utility transformer as of mid-December.
Charging dispensers not yet installed in Madera.
The highway site in Madera along I-5 in the Central Valley has made good progress but appears to have stopped construction during the last weeks of busy holiday shopping at the adjacent Walmart.
The scene at Laguna Village in Sacramento.
The Laguna Village site in mid-December was still in the early stages of construction.
The community charging site in Montebello.
In Southern California, the Montebello site has apparently been ready for weeks except for a missing utility transformer as of late November.
The full list of nine planned openings was:
- Country Hill Shopping Plaza, 2965 Rolling Hills, Torrance, CA.
- Montebello Plaza, 2401 W. Via Campo, Montebello, CA
- Walmart Supercenter, 8465 Elk Grove Blvd., Elk Grove, CA
- Novato Fair Shopping Center, 900 Diablo Ave., Novato, CA
- San Francisco Premium Outlets, 2774 Livermore Outlets Dr., Livermore, CA
- Madera-Walmart, 1077 W. Cleveland Ave., Madera, CA
- Laguna, Village, 8785 Center Parkway, Sacramento, CA
- La Mirada, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada, CA
- America’s Best Value Inn, 3930 County Rd. 89, Dunnigan, CA
In addition to the six sites not yet open at the end of 2018, the company says another 16 are also “coming soon” in California. Several of those appear to be already under construction.
In total, around 160 DC charging sites are scheduled to be open as part of the first cycle plan in California by the end of 2019 including some 50 highway sites.
Electrify America has previously acknowledged that not all of them will be available for use by the nominal end of that cycle on June 30.
See also: Some drivers struggle to use new liquid-cooled charging cables
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