This weekend I was charging at the Tesla Supercharger at one of the current five locations in Pasadena which three of the locations also have Pasadena’s EV charging for vehicles that do not use the NACS Tesla connector to charge.

At the Shopper’s Lane Supercharger and Pasadena Water and Power location, all Tesla Superchargers had been functional and experiencing heaving load, still all are in use and the charge level at peak is capable of 250kwh charging. Although most vehicles that drop to 150 and lower as the vehicle charge level increases.

The issue at this location is that for non-Tesla Supercharge capable vehicles,. you are pretty much out of luck, the chargers available over half did not work and either had a sign that indicated such the unit was forced into Out of Service Mode. But beyond that the chargers being used by PWP are old and slow and to make matters worse use the Shell platform, re-charge, which has been renamed and reimagined and still unreliable and fails to work more than it works.

The Tritium chargers being used by PWP are made in Australia and are capable at peak of 50kwh charging. This is completely unacceptable in todays charging standards.

Pasadena received federal and state funds to install chargers that do not work. There are other locations where the PWP EV installs are just as bad. Victory Park, Robinson Park, Marengo, and Glenarm all have PWP EV chargers that do not work.

Not to mention that the Tesla chargers had been operation many months ahead of the PWP EV chargers being installed.   This is a picture showing the Tesla chargers installed and operational.  and the Pasadena chargers not even installed back in July 2023.