This week has been more of the same. Nothing has really changed at Pasadena’s PWP DC Fast charging facilities.
Del Mar – 1 DCFC – on app, there are two DC Fast chargers, only one appears to work consistently. These are older Tritium chargers where only one connector can be used at a time.
Robinson Park – 5 DCFC – on app – update – only 2 working. Which is NO change from from what has been the case for many weeks. – the signage has still not been updated, the chargers are still showing that one can use both sides of the charger.
Victory Park – 3 DCFC – on app, two appear to be working at this time, which is one more than last week. But the third is on, and is not responding.
Glenarm(Arroyo Electric Vehicle) – 2 DCFC on app, appears that several are off and not showing on app. None of the chargers appear to be working.
Marengo Plaza – 20 DCFC on app, will have to go and see, someone reported that you can park for an hour with paying, but I don’t believe this is true, we will inquire and see what we find out If these chargers work, then be able to park for one hour without paying would certainly help. Even 30 minutes would be helpful for those trying to charge.
Shoppers Lane – spent some time here, these are all CCS chargers with dual port 150kW capability but nobody is seeing even close to this. At least have of the ports are inoperable or chargers are turned off. Connectors are broken, credit card machines are not working.
So of the six locations where Pasadena PWP has DC Fast charging, we don’t know where to rank any of them, but we know they are still in very bad shape, Promises from PWP have not delivered the half of broken chargers working. Unless all the chargers are Marengo Plaza are working which I highly doubt. That would be the only way that half of the chargers would be working. What the city should do is pull out half of the chargers at Marengo and place the working ones at Victory Park and Robinson Park and Del Mar, to get the maximum working chargers to the community. Having a large number of chargers on a rooftop parking is a disservice to the community.
And the cost needs to be addressed, at .15 nonpeak and .20 peak, these costs are below what anyone would pay. They need to be more competitive but they also need to work. Free is great too but if they don’t work and they cannot be supported what good is it.
As usual Tesla chargers work, from what I have seen in the past week, there’s been maybe 2-3 out of the dozens of superchargers that are not working.