BARSTOW: Electric car maker Tesla Inc. is building the largest electric car charging center in the United States in Barstow, a remote town in the Mojave Desert halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Mayor Paul Courtney revealed that the world’s most valuable automaker has already been in business for months of building Superchargers, a charger Tesla produces for faster recharges and longer trips than those provided through smaller domestic charging features, at a Barstow City Council meeting on Monday. while praising the haggling skills of the city staff.
Charging stations for 100 vehicles will be built along a major local sales tax factor, The Outlets at Barstow, a reinforced outdoor shopping mall with nearby entry options, adding new dispensaries in the city’s nascent advertising hash industry.
It will be the largest charging station in the United States, the mayor said. The largest existing charging station in the United States is a 70-space location at Outlets at Tejon, a shopping mall in the San Joaquin Valley. The car charging station is located in the high-tech Chinese city of Shenzhen, with 637 reported locations.
Recently, a fence obscured the start of the Supercharger that was shown through Courtney. It is located on approximately 4 acres of desert, which connects to the Holiday Inn Express.
At Monday’s board meeting, Courtney Southern California Edison has a May 30 deadline to inject the excess electric power into Tesla’s charging station.
However, The Daily Press can only identify references to Supercharger’s new assignment in press releases or monetary data from Tesla or Edison, or beyond the public agendas of the Barstow City Council or the Southern California Association of Governments, or SCAG, a broader entity. which Courtney cited for having a behind-the-scenes role in the public official aspect of the assignment.
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There is at least one exception in the media: An anonymous contributor to Niche Tesla-focused websites under the pseudonym is MarcoRP, whose search in February exposed a video posted through Rancho Cucamonga-based Electric Vehicle Infrastructures Inc. on Instagram. The message showed what is obviously the site of barstow’s new Supercharger assignment that is cleaned up and qualified for assignment at an earlier stage.
“Regardless, I learned that this site is indeed Barstow’s new Supercharger,” MarcoRP tweeted a few days later, though the origin of that confirmation is rarely very clear. however, I would say between 60 and 80. “
Even that an underestimation of what is now a hundred Supercharger positions was projected, according to the mayor of Barstow.
Courtney’s chance revelation of the Tesla charger allocation comes as California regulators unveiled a proposal in April to ban the sale of all new gasoline-powered cars until 2035, as the state pushes for more vehicle sales and zero emissions over the next 4 years.
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The April proposal, released through the California Air Resources Board, outlines the plan for new cars that run on batteries or hydrogen to account for 35 percent of the state’s auto sales through 2026 before cars account for 100 percent of sales through 2035. California accounts for about 11% of all new passenger car sales in the United States, the highest of any state.
The plan follows a September 2020 executive order through Gov. Gavin Newsom to phase out gasoline-powered cars so the state can neutralize carbon emissions through 2045.
According to the council, passenger cars contribute about a quarter of the state’s total greenhouse fuel emissions, more than any other independent source. The program is part of California’s efforts to specifically reduce carbon emissions.
Between 2026 and 2040, state experts estimate that the program will emit about 384 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. That’s a little less than all the emissions from California’s economy in a single year.
California is making progress lately in its electric car sales. Electric cars accounted for 12. 4% of new car sales in 2021. In 2020, 7. 8%.
Courtney referred to Tesla’s allocation as a “historic victory” for the city and a long-awaited budget to upgrade the decrepit First Avenue Bridge.
His full comments are taken from the public record:
“Actions and effects speak. Before we went to the SCAG assembly a week and a half ago, there was an imaginable challenge that we didn’t have enough strength in Lenwood for the first phase of Tesla’s charging units. One hundred planned housing station in the United States, right there. This is the prospect of not having enough strength for the first phase.
Well, in short, we were given Edison’s commitment to have enough strength for phase one through Memorial Day to open the first level of Tesla’s charging stations. It just didn’t happen overnight. This happens when we paint our relationships, communicate individually, it turns out it’s vital for all of us, and when we have competent staff like our CM (City Manager Willie Hopkins Jr. ), our operations managers, public painting(s) – it goes on and on – we get things done. The effects of most speak of back and forth and round and round.
The SCAG schedule is available to the public, if desired, I have copies. * presentations a print of the stage; unclear text at a distance*
In addition, it was distributed to everyone on stage. That’s the component of getting Barstow up and running that we didn’t communicate about. We do not communicate about itArray
Usually, the general public applauds when things are going well and questions things when they don’t go well. He fully perceives it and that’s how it works. Because when we talk to our staff and cm, percentages done and done. let us not advance our people with irrational hopes, emotions, and behaviors, and it goes on and on.
Because I am a believer in the company, we face personal disorders. We dealt with personal unrest and applauded in the public square. In the public space. We don’t come to our public meetings, and we hear all the negatives this and this and that.
What do you think the world looks, hears, and thinks when it sees what’s on Barstow level, 92311?»
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Charlie McGee covers California’s High Desert for the Daily Press, focusing on the city of Barstow and its surrounding communities. He is also a report for America body member with The GroundTruth Project, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization committed to supporting the next generation of news hounds in the United States and around the world. McGee can be reached at 760-955-5341 or cmcgee@gannett. com. Follow him on Twitter @bycharliemcgee.