Tesla Megacharger! Visiting A DCFC Location With Over 100 EV Chargers. Welcome To Baker, CA 

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Kyle asked me to take a peak at this and add any additional info worth noting: - Up to 7 V3 Supercharger cabinets can be linked in a radial configuration with one main cabinet serving as Star Center (controller for the bus) - Pro tip for counting V3 stalls - just count the cabinets and multiply by 4 😉 (occasionally Tesla will do less than 4 posts per cabinet - 3 is typical in Europe - but it will get you close enough) - Notice that the accessible stall has the ADA symbol but none of the text that makes it enforceable as an ADA placard-only stall - Additional cabinets to the same amount of stalls would be a great way for Tesla to add conversion capacity - I share your concern about non-Tesla EVs and their more aggressive charge curves compared to Teslas - I agree with your assumption that V3 cabinets / posts can be retrofitted / upgraded to support 1000V output Semi Charger: - 800A AC input cabinet indicates a max connection of 664kW, but per NEC 625.42, can only operate at 640A or approximately 531kW (not factoring for power factor, voltage sag, etc) HOWEVER, the label on the cam lock connection box indicates 400A is available for the connection - 800A would require a second set of cam locks - Tesla is using an isolation transformer to step the 480/277V delta 3P grid connection down to 360Y208V 3P likely due to the lack of grounding for the portable setup - 360V is not a common AC voltage range, so this is fairly odd (I'm not an expert on industrial applications so someone please correct me if this is wrong) - This cabinet is either heavily modified or entirely unique from typical V3 cabinets with a different input voltage range, output rating and power conversion capability - There is no DC bus capability on this cabinet - Typical V3 cabinets are 360-528V input intended to be used on 380/400/415/440/480V grid connection with either 430A (350kVA version) or 465A (387kVA version) max continuous current typically on a 600A circuit - the output is less when operating at below 480V input (typical in Europe / ROW) which is why they are typically 3 posts per cabinet vs NA typical of 4 - I do not think this Semi cabinet is indicative of V4 cabinets but may have some shared elements -V4 post makes Kyle look short and you know it's hot when Kyle isn't wearing a hoodie 😅 I have a deep dive of Tesla's V3 Supercharger architecture here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MYJkMrv6o0o.html

Kyle u went in deep on th future tytyty for including transformer name plate. EPIC!!! Including the no brainer of shade providing SOLAR ARRAY FILLING BATTERIES

Keetlman is over 100 charging stalls now. I was there recently and they all work too. Along with truck trailer accesible stalls too.

12:33 those aren’t Megapacks🤨That’s the 4000 A panels which contain the 480 V switchgear.

Surprised and dissapointed that the site doesn't seem to have ANY provision for PULL THROUGH CHARGING for vehicles pulling trailers, especially with the Cybertruck coming! The temp/hacky pull through even for the Megacharger is funny too. How are they not thinking of PULL THROUGH YET ON NEW INSTALLATIONS?!

I'm commenting below to say I love these types of videos showing the charging stations. Keep em coming!

With the building of Bright Line West station in Las Vegas, they need a 50+ charger network built as part of the station. Part of the service on Bright Line East they do pick up and drop off for passengers in model 3/Ys so it makes sense... but they could have an issue with the Taxicab Authority and also the Nevada Transportation Authority which runs the limousine licencing

Oh no im a geek ! My first supercharge i oggled over the spec plate, even have the picture to proove it. Amps and volts all the way.

The birds are loving the shade! Next, Tesla power washers?

That's funny. I should have submitted a bad rate my charge for Baker EA charger. It wouldn't activate on one of the chargers and had to move to another station with our Mach E. Same time frame as when you were there -2 weeks ago in mid-July 2023.

Lot of additional space for ground mounted solar.

Amuzing that all those cabinets and electrical panels are exposed witout an barriers. I would worry about vandalism or terrorist activities against them.

That Crow!! :)

44 degrees celsius - yeah that's a bit warm.

Looks Tesla is going for volume , and max deployments, cut design effort. This is great 👍 , more infrastructure needed like this.🎉

How come middle of nowhere CA can get this but big cities that need them can't?

I'm curious what time of day this way filmed and was it a weekend?

The entire area must be covered with Solar Panels instead of just the vehicles parking

Yeh. But what’s the coffee shop like?

Why put so many charging stations in one location? It would make more sense to spread them along the highway like every 5 miles or so.

112 F = 44.4 degrees C

Did I miss the place to use the bathroom and get snacks ?

Love it!

20:03 Could it really be just 400Kw? I was expecting more. The thing is huge. We already have 300Kw chargers for normal cars. Must be a lot of cooling or something.

Don't watch this tour of padlocked mega batteries and then watch an episode of the Lock Picking Lawyer. These locks can be opened in 60 seconds max. Not sure why you'd want to but they are the very lowest level deterrent. Scary.

Come to Europe & see v4 chargers

No Buc-cee’s….. too bad!

If they covered the roads between the chargers with solar panels how close would they be to covering the charging load would they be?

Surprised Kyle is not wearing a hoodie. 😛

I imagine 100 years ago some pre-RU-vid Kyle going to a Shell gas station and talking for half an hour how amazing the dispenser are.

Another vote for more in-depth site visits like this. It would be great to see canopies like this at Buc-ee’s, Meijer, Wawa, and Sheetz Supercharger sites.

This is one hell of a charging station! Love to see these massive sites!

The solar canopies are brilliant to provide shade and energy! I wish more supercharger locations were designed like this!

Good stuffs happening in the charging space. Extremely needed for EV highway travelling. Of course there are extremist in EV and anti-EV but sane people will check practicality and economics. We are still in early phase but rapidly growing. Kudos to everyone involved: companies like Tesla, EA, Volta, Chargepoint etc; early adopters and influences like OOS team, Branden Flasch, Bjørn Nyland etc.

I think that all chargers should have solar canopies because it provides shade and power.

Was great meeting you at Tesla Takeover! Also loved watching this video !! What an epic charging station (wish I got to see it in person).

Kyle we need more charging station reviews please :) Cool video

I just charged here 30 minutes ago!! 😊

Great video, very informative. Did you give the Crow @9:20 a drink? He looked thirsty.

I use this station on my way from Vegas to San Diego whenever I take my Ioniq 5 on that road trip. It’s great. Good charging experiences, covered from the sun, ad well as a Convenience store, restrooms, and a fast food joint.

More EV site reviews, please! @12:51

Thanks for going out in the heat to share with us about this incredible charging site. Wonder why there are no covers to shield the batteries from the blazing sun

Solar works well with the battery. Of course they can feed it back to the grid and just compensate utility power bill, but they can charge the batteries when sun is shining and then discharge when it is not. I think this is what you have heard - inverter was busy charging the battery. And since in summer you have at least 12 hours of insolation, even 60kW of panels gives you 720kWh, and they have many such canopies, this gives us few megawatt*hour per day. Solar modules are cheap BTW, battery and inverter capable of working with the battery are expensive. They could have installed on-grid inverter and send excess energy to the grid and be done, but then grid had to deal with it (which is probably not a big deal as demand for a/c must be high during hot period), and they went way farther and invested into battery which can store excess energy.

Next time, could you briefly show us the amenities at the station as well? I think with EV charging, that is a big feature as well.

Would love to see more awesome charging station videos! Keep being awesome!

Perfect way to balance grid and maximise existing electrical infrastructure. 👍🔋🌞🇦🇺

Add a big ass convenience store and it’s like a 2037 Buc-eel’s! 😆 Can’t wait!

That's an incredible site. I just wish the ones we currently have with 8 or 12 stalls were covered like that.

I'm skeptical that Tesla would upgrade to 1000V capability anytime soon, even with the CT incoming. It'll charge perfectly fine on all existing infrastructure, none of their other cars need it. So what's the rush from their POV? To help HMG, Porshce/Audi and Lucid? Nah...

Mandatory comment. Because this is amazing. And I need more. And more nerd details on how it all works.

10:20 Seems like they could have installed even more solar by connecting the canopies. I guess the modular design makes that more difficult than it sounds.

Never thought i would be so fascinated by a video about chargers but man very cool vid.

I think the opportunity here is to locate big EV charging stations like this at key points between heavily traveled routes, like LA to Las Vegas. A hundred stations like this, placed strategically around the country would go a long way towards making long distance EV travel more inviting.

I am assuming no Magic Docks on the tesla charging stations here, perhaps not needed because of the EA chargers. I would like to see more of these videos, I love it. And keep us posted if you spot any magic-dock capable Tesla chargers. I drive a Bolt EUV and some day, a magic-dock Tesla charger might just save me if I come close to running out of juice, with no other nearby options!

I make a lot of road trips from CA to UT and prefer using the chargers at Primm, there are much more amenities and is about 1/2 the cost.

Been there, charged there many-a-time. The last time I saw a Kia EV6, a Rivian R1T, and a Mustang Mach-E GT charging from the EA units. If Tesla continues to install these Megachargers, then Hyundai should be able to transition to NACS and use them. My one complaint about the Baker site? That they charge 3 times the usual price for a small ice-cream cone. Tsk. Now… visit the new Barstow Supercharger. Immense!

Review the Eddie World Supercharger to convince Tesla to add more stalls.

Great video Kyle! What an awesome and interesting charging site. Super job showing an early megacharger. Maybe the first ever built with the MC1, or MegaCharger1, label. I do wish you had captured a better image of the rating plaque though.

Amazing progress! This is how the vertical integration and the energy sector from Tesla are paying off now. All other charging networks need to purchase chargers very expensive despite not having any mega packs. Tesla is now collecting the benefits from the huge investment in the past, which no one believed it was even possible 😉.

Great news! I wish there were majic docks at that location for Rivian Trucks. Did you see any magic docks there yet?

My primary stopping location when going to Vegas. The original EA 350kw chargers at that location are the ones that fried my Rivian. But, they've since been replaced with the new versions and no problems since. Kettleman City, was just at a couple of weeks ago. They have two separate locations on each side of the street. Didn't count the chargers, but both are huge locations, so probably close to 100 between the two locations almost directly across the street from each other.

That travel center sucks! I wish they installed more in the travel center just down the road. Bigger and variety of food, snacks, and coffee.

56 v3 plus the the 40 v2 already in place but you failed to mention they have pulled a permit less than one mile northeast for for another 32 (v4?) plus a restaurant. 128 total for Baker.

Such an odd AC voltage for that mega charger. Been in utility industry for years and never dealt with 360/208Y

Tesla is adding 56 new for a total of 96. Pretty awesome!

Now do Quartzsite. Including the pathetic EA station.

Surprised they're allowed to use temporary cable covers like that for that amount of power

I just hope they replace some V2 with V3 along the interstate routes.... I am within month of buying an EV .. but really dont want a tesla (for various reasons) but still dismayed at the state of every charging outside of Tesla for distance. While I don't have to go super often, I do have several thousand mile one-way trips I have to take a year... and yeah... one of them is basically impossible (to near Dallas across I-20 in Lousiana....... BRP is requiring near 100% fills to get across there .... which yeah the car I am looking at... 80-90 is bad.. but 90-100..... .pointless...

Wish Australia would get their stuff together. We have so much power available and no reliable ev charging providers.

Love the charger reviews, I see Tesla is looking to install a version 4 in Grand Forks, BC which would be the first in Canada!

Not only do those solar panel covers help with comfort, they will really save energy for folks running AC. Our Tesla BAKES in the sun with that massive sunroof. Parking in the shade makes a huge difference.

I hope they update the gas station it's connected to. We skip that location on our frequent trips out from Vegas to Cali because the bathrooms there are disgusting, smelly and dirty and neither I nor my kids want to use them, so we always opt to pass there and continue to the Barstow superchargers by the outlet mall. Bathrooms are much cleaner and they're doing an expansion to the v3 superchargers there as well.

Can you take a trip to China and see how they do it there? They must have similar insane fields of chargers, or even bigger.. but how do they do it in a place where space it at a premium like Shenzhen?

Interesting. It shows that a) Tesla is putting massive amount of plugs but with discrete amount of power, as not much more is needed to serve Tesla cars. b) Tesla is still tinkering with their MegaCharger. I expect them to switch to the 👽 connector, and their cabinet installation to look radically different to this one of thing. c) you can put such a massive station in the middle of the desert, but this is almost impossible in Europe. BTW, Tesla is installing v3 cabinets in Europe with v4 dispensers, so no 800V capability, for me it is only because Tesla admits that the short v3 cable can give them some headaches if many non Teslas charge at their Superchargers. But we still have that rumour where someone has seen the number 350 on a station plan drawing.🤷‍♂️ Let’s see what those cabinets look like.

Ty Kyle, nice video as usual. I wish since you are in the desert, you can see how pitiful the state of dc charging is in the deserts of New Mexico. I hope you can find out if Tesla is planning a dc fast charging station in Roswell, NM. After all it will be an out of specs, "out of this world" force that will make the travel through Roswell, for many people like me so much easier, free of range anxiety. I recall in 1947, they allegedly clocked a faster than light speed charger performance through Roswell...!!!

The supercharger site in Sutherlin Oregon on I-5 opened several weeks ago with 51 V3 stations.

Quartzite Kyle, right now they’re putting in 88 chargers and I think there’s another 36 in the same area. Southern Arizona.

I have very similar impressions on how the V3 hardware works. On the 880-1000V interconnect, I think the voltage is dependent on the input voltage of the 3-phase. The input can be 380/300/415/440/480V 3-phase. In the US, we have 480V 3-phase. In mainland Europe it is 380V and 415V. At 380V that gives only 283KW. At 415V that gives only 309KW. A lot less then the 357KW in the US for 480V. Sharing only 283KW between 4 chargers would be pretty slow. To compensate for the lower voltage, Tesla installs 3 output V3 superchargers in Europe.

Why are not the other infrastructure cabinets not covered over with solar panels.

cool, I think you under estimated the amount of solar there.

Seems like there should be more protection/bollards

Every state needs at least 2 stations like this

Looking forward to see the mega charger build out so I can order a Tesla Semi! Start on I5 Elon

Where's the Model S, Taycan, Lucid Air race?

Waste of money on a bridge technology that will be outdated shortly after it is fully implemented.

Epic Content! Thanks. Funny someone ICED a spot while you were there😮

Highly doubtful that that new 7 automaker alliance charging network will build a stop with that many stalls

Allegedly, Tesla is in the permit process of building another location down the street in Baker.

anti ev people are smashing hate comments lol

I drive through here a few times a year when I make the drive from San Diego, CA to Fort Collins, CO in my 3 Standard Range. Cool town aesthetically but not temperature wise lol. Definitely really nice chargers.

Clearly prepping to be the leader in DCFC for ALL EV's in 2024

Neeeerrrrrdddddd!!!! It’s awesome seeing somebody so excited over new tech. (Which I don’t mostly understand) But yeah. I’ll watch everything to learn little bits here and there. Real question is, how do we convert our sedans/SUVs to use the Tesla semi charger. Hahaha Keep’em coming!

Why aren’t they installing V4??

To many black birds around for me

Utah transit authority (UTA) has a new maintenance facility in salt lake with new BEB charging stations, this would be a cool EV video to go over ABB's chargers they have their, or the pantographs UTA has installed around Utah.

Nice video kyle . Hopefully Ea will add more. The largest ea I have seen is 10 at a Cincinnati location. Our Columbus oh location has 8

We need something like this for CCS drivers in Quartzsite, AZ

Solar canopies is fantastic. Would like more info on the kWh production on a site like this per year. Great video 👍

Tesla very clearly stated that the v3 stalls are powered four plugs per one megawatt cabinet. So what gives?