This Tesla Supercharger station is conveniently placed in the parking lot of this Big Box mall right where Seaside and Sand City merge to meet the Monterey Bay sand dunes. There are 12 250KW Tesla Superchargers here (1 of them Van accessible) and also 4 Charge Point chargers on 2 shared towers for the other EVs out there.
Convenient because you can grab some grub at the Bagel Bakery, Chipotle, Habit Burgers, Five Guys, Panera or the choices around the parking lot, or shop at Target, Ross, CVS, Ulta Beauty, Lucky's, GameStop or other stores around the same parking lot.
Chargers price per KW varies depending on time of day, but at 4pm on a Sunday it was $0.35/KW. Like most high traffic supercharging locations, they default to charging up to 80%, but you can change that to 100% if you need to, and if you have a newer Model 3 Tesla with an LFP battery.
I preconditioned my Battery about 2 miles while routing here on my navigate screen ( warm up the battery for faster charging) and I got 100 miles added in a Jiffy, almost faster than I could write this review and post photos!
Cost? $7.35 total! That would have cost about $18 for 4 gallons of premium at Costco gas with my old Honda Accord V6.
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