Concord--> Sunday 28 January 2024

                                                                    getting the juice

Today I returned to the string along I-93, heading roughly 30 minutes north to the supercharging station in Concord, NH.  It actually seems to be north of Concord by almost 5 miles, but the Concord city limits stretch far to the north, so this supercharging station is technically in Concord.  That said, this would be a detour if one was passing through Concord off of 93 (perhaps heading east/west on Route 4/202.)  In that case, you’d have to get on I-93 and go out of your way by 5 miles or so to exit 17.  But this is nicely placed for travel along I-93.

From the app:  250kW, 12 superchargers, with shopping, coffee, and restrooms.

Gotta love the twelve v3 (fast) superchargers and ease off the highway.  This station is in a pleasant spot, with a nicely forested area behind the chargers.  This is in a shopping plaza, right behind a NH liquor store.  Fast food choices include Jersey Mikes and Wendy’s, not too far away and in the plaza complex.  There is also a Market Basket grocery store.

One thing I have not talked about yet in this blog is how uncrowded the NH Tesla supercharging stations have been, at least when I have visited.  This is one benefit of how ubiquitous they are.  Imagine the impact on road trips if Tesla only had half, or a third, of the stations that they have.  (This may have been reality some number of years ago, but now we have almost 2,000 stations in the US, with more being built every year.)  Not only would trip planning become more difficult, but the stations would be much more crowded.  Doing a road trip would be terrible if you had to worry about waiting for a charger at each stop.  That has most certainly not been the case for me in this quest…I have yet to visit a station where even half of the stalls have been taken.  Today, in Concord, there was one other person charging, so 10 empty spots once Sparky plugged in.  It will be interesting to see if things fill up at busier travel times, like leaf peeping season, but I sense that the NH stations are generally uncrowded.

Concord gets a thumbs-up.  9 down, only 4 to go!