Largest
EV Charging Station in the World
Powered by Diesel-Powered Generator
Tesla's
Massive 98 Stall California
Supercharging Station Uses Diesel Generators
"As with many Tesla-related things, there is a secret, thinly obscured by an Oz-like curtain, at the Harris Ranch Supercharger. Hidden in plain sight across the way from the Harris Ranch Supercharger's main stations, behind a Shell station, is a small diesel plant that powers Tesla's footprint."
Tesla's Mega 98-Supercharger Location
Runs on a Diesel Generator
The
Dark Side of Tesla's Largest Supercharger:
A Diesel Generator is Powering it
Diesel Plant Found Behind Tesla EV Charging Station
"Oil industry insider David Blackmon notes the irony of diesel-powered Superchargers, and says rising EV use is a 'huge problem' for the US power grid."
Tesla "Supercharger" Station Powered by Diesel Generators
Energy Absurdity: America's Largest EV Charging Station Powered by - you guessed it - Diesel
The
Irony of "Green" EV Charging Stations:
The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger Station
And
these were just a sample of the over
20 publications that pushed this story.
What do all of the above news articles have in common?
1. They
all state that Tesla is, today, using either a "generator" or
"generators" to power their Harris Ranch EV charging station.
2. They are all anti-Tesla or anti-EV publications.
3. They are all 100% incorrect.
4. None of them bothered to do any research to verify the accuracy of
#5 below.
5. At least one of those articles is based on a 2015 article that surfaced
that said that a building on the Harris Ranch property was being powered
by a diesel generator...
The diesel generator
in question is a portable diesel generator.
That
building was a car wash that later became a test battery swapping station
and is today being used for storage, and there is no more portable diesel
generator.
Back in 2015 when that article came out, it said "how ironic that
a diesel generator is powering Tesla's battery swap station" (Tesla
has since abandoned the idea of battery swap stations). So, what likely
happened was that one of the above publications stumbled across that article
from 2015, and misreported it – either intentionally or due to stupidity
(or both). And the other publications picked it up and ran with it (because
it suited their agenda). But since the 2015 article had a photo of the
diesel generator (above), and a little research would show that a small
portable generator like that couldn't possibly power 98 EV chargers, the
publication that started this swarm of "let's dump on Tesla"
articles had to stretch the facts to make it sound like there was a large,
permanent diesel generator being used to power Tesla's 98 charging stalls
at their Harris Ranch location. To say that this was bad form would be
putting it mildly.
When the above
nonsensical articles came out about a week ago, the owner of the property
– Harris Ranch Resorts – published a "correction"
article that said that there is no diesel generator powering anything
Tesla related.
So, why did all those media outlets report that bogus info?
Any opportunity
to impugn or discredit Tesla will be jumped on by those and other publications.
They really don't care if the information is accurate or not, as long
as it's harmful to Tesla or EVs, that's all that matters. But since a
slowing of EV adoption causes more premature deaths due to tailpipe pollution,
and the slowing of EV adoption also does something to the planet's environment
which is probably not a good thing, those people who intentionally seek
to slow EV adoption with lies should be charged with crimes against the
people – both the people alive today and those yet unborn. Maybe
a few years in prison will straighten them out.
It should be
noted than many of Tesla's charging stations include solar panels that
charge some of the cars with sunlight, but even if all Tesla
chargers had to be powered by gas or diesel generators only, there would
still be less overall pollution because EVs can get 120 MPGe, so they
would use about one fifth the liquid fuel as their tailpipe counterparts!
Was this mentioned in any of the above articles? Of course not. Do you
as a consumer of information like to be BS'd by those with ulterior motives?
I don't.
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