Stamford (CT) Town Center Garage Tesla Supercharger

[Calypso]

I've generally been pleased with Rivian Navigation getting me to decent charging stations. This past weekend, I was driving Boston to Phili. The first charge stop was given as Stamford, CT. Routing took me to the Town Center parking garage. Once inside, no further instructions and I did not see any signs for the Tesla Superchargers. I was on a schedule and had 30% SOC, so after a tour of the street level with no luck, I decided to head back on the road rather than going floor by floor in the garage. It rerouted me further on my route to a Paramus (NJ) RAN station (which was also weird as the mall there was closed on a Sunday afternoon).

Now that I am home, I looked up the Stamford Town Center Supercharger in Plugshare and see reports that it is on the top deck of the parking garage. I don't typically check Plugshare ahead of trips anymore because I find the nav system often changes stops when I load the route in the truck and head out vs planning on my phone or in ABRP ahead of time. This is one where it would have been wise to do so.

All in all, a good trip. One charging stop Bos-Phili and 2 stops coming home.

Sponsored

 

[TTedP]

a lot of the rest-stops along I-95 now are adding CCS friendly chargers. They aren't in the Rivian Nav.

 

[KBabione]

The other thing would be to take Rte 15 through CT rather than I-95 - there aren't any trucks allowed and each of the little rest areas have a couple of L3 chargers. While I live near Lancaster PA, my two oldest daughters are in Salem and my in-laws are in Chappaqua NY so I'm doing that drive fairly often. No wonder I've hit 63K in the three years we've had the R1S...

 

[SANZC02]

I've generally been pleased with Rivian Navigation getting me to decent charging stations. This past weekend, I was driving Boston to Phili. The first charge stop was given as Stamford, CT. Routing took me to the Town Center parking garage. Once inside, no further instructions and I did not see any signs for the Tesla Superchargers. I was on a schedule and had 30% SOC, so after a tour of the street level with no luck, I decided to head back on the road rather than going floor by floor in the garage. It rerouted me further on my route to a Paramus (NJ) RAN station (which was also weird as the mall there was closed on a Sunday afternoon).

Now that I am home, I looked up the Stamford Town Center Supercharger in Plugshare and see reports that it is on the top deck of the parking garage. I don't typically check Plugshare ahead of trips anymore because I find the nav system often changes stops when I load the route in the truck and head out vs planning on my phone or in ABRP ahead of time. This is one where it would have been wise to do so.

All in all, a good trip. One charging stop Bos-Phili and 2 stops coming home.

There is one in Houston off of I10 on the top deck of a parking structure as well. First time I went there was hard to find.

I have seen the EA chargers blocked on the first floor of the parking garage at the mall in Braintree, MA

Benefit to top deck locations though is you rarely see people just parking in the spaces blocking the chargers.

 

[Calypso]

The other thing would be to take Rte 15 through CT rather than I-95 - there aren't any trucks allowed and each of the little rest areas have a couple of L3 chargers. While I live near Lancaster PA, my two oldest daughters are in Salem and my in-laws are in Chappaqua NY so I'm doing that drive fairly often. No wonder I've hit 63K in the three years we've had the R1S...

I agree with you on Rte 15. I took it most of the way going south and dropped down to Stamford at Westport. Coming home, after the GWB in NYC, I took 9A to Cross County... ending up on Rte 15 until it hit I-95 south of Hartford. A much better drive than I-95.

 

[Jim4]

The one in the Stamford town center is on the bottom floor of the garage. Near the pickle ball place parking area. Which is notoriously known to have ICE vehicles park in the Tesla spots.

Sponsored