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Yes, from the article, it is in Lost Hills, California, on I-5 in between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The site makes its own electricity with solar panels when the sun is out and stores it in BIG BIG BIG Batteries for use 24/7, so no need for Grid Supplied power. I wonder what that cost to build?
"The 164-stall location in Lost Hills, California, is powered by 11 megawatts of solar panels, which double as a canopy that shades the parking spots. Those panels feed 10 of the automaker's utility-scale Megapack batteries, for a total of 39 megawatt-hours of energy storage."
That was my first thought. Who's idea was it to take acres of farmland and convert to a solar panel field so that people can drive to the middle of nowhere to recharge and then drive back home, likely using a signficant portion of the electricity they just consumed to get there?
Who's idea was it to take acres of farmland and convert to a solar panel field so that people can drive to the middle of nowhere to recharge and then drive back home, likely using a signficant portion of the electricity they just consumed to get there?
That is far from the actual use case and purpose of this charging station. People don't drive to the middle of nowhere to charge and then drive back home.
Lost Hills is on Interstate 5, a major arterial corridor that traverses the vertical length of California, connecting Mexico to Canada, and more significantly, connecting the Los Angeles basin to Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lost Hills is situated in the middle of a trip along I-5 between SF and LA, so it is a perfect stop to pull over and get recharged before tackling the climb up the Grapevine if heading south bound, and a great place to top up again after climbing the Grapevine if heading Northbound.
There is also a Love's Truck Stop in Lost Hills, that provides the same strategic refueling convenience for the many trucks that run that route along I-5.
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