Hi Chris,
Getting on southbound I-5 in Castaic today I noticed a charging station out of the corner of my eye located at a Shell gas station. The lat/lon of the location is 34.496300/-118.625193
Unfortunately I noticed it too late to pull in and do a real survey. From the quick glance it looked like it was complete (nothing blocking off the chargers, etc.) and probably open but there were no cars charging at the time. With the one quick look, I did not get a count of dispensers but am guessing maybe 6. And I could not see the connector type, etc. The color scheme and style of the equipment was not one I recognized either, so probably not EA, EVgo or ChargePoint. Basically I do not have enough definitive information to be able to make a valid edit to add or update an entry in OCM.
So I tried looking it up. OCM show three chargers in the area, all at the same “nearest address” of 27923 Sloan Canyon Rd. The OCM numbers are OCM-241632, OCM-140051, and OCM-309166.
OCM-241632 and OCM-140051 are supposedly a ChargePoint locations but do not show up in the ChargePoint app.
OCM-309166 claims to be a Electric Era and it might be but it does not appear on their website map.
Since it is at a Shell gas station I thought it might be a Shell Recharge location but it does not show on their website station search.
I believe that all three of the OCM entries should be merged into one. But don’t don’t know what the operator should be. And I am not positive that it is actually operational. Maybe I am wrong about it appearing to be complete and probably operations in which case maybe it is the Electric Era entry as that shows it to be “Planned for Future Date”.
It will likely be another month before I will be driving back that way so I won’t be able to do a real survey until then. . . What should be done?
Hi, it’s fine to leave the information until someone can confirm the reality and provide their own edits. While it is perfectly possible to guess edits correctly the best edits are based on the ground truth.
The community nature of OCM edits means chargers you have not recently used are not your responsibility to edit, so feel free to let someone else do that. There’s a risk that someone will act on the wrong information but choose not the make a subsequent correction, but someone will eventually. That’s more or less how we’ve been working for the last 14 years anyway 
I was the one who added the Electric Era Skycharger one as they have won several awards to build for the California Energy Commission. It is designed as a upgrade replacement to the previous lower powered Chargepoint site as the US Federal NEVI (National Electric Vehicle) program requires higher power charging. They were just using the existing chargepoint locations in many of those cities as a general area to place the upcoming locations. As location qualifications are similar to the old West Coast Electric Highway. More than likely these exact locations need to be updated as not everything has been secured or operational.
here is the dataset from Round 1 of Califorina NEVI from the CEC.
Interesting, the only reason I noticed the charging equipment at that exit was because we get got off the freeway to eat at the Panda Express where a Zero6 EV Charging location is shown on the linked arcgis map. No sign of any EV charging station or construction there.
I was not aware that there could be two NEVI awarded sites that close together. Same freeway exit, just opposite sides of the freeway.
We will likely be driving up that way sometime before the end of April. If not by then certainly by the beginning of June. I’ll make a point of stopping at the site I saw at the Shell gas station adjacent to the southbound on ramp and see what the situation is.
I really dont have any trust in Zero6 energy until they get something in. not to be confused with Zero60 charging.
There are a few documents previous from skycharger talk about working with chargepoint and their previous CEC sites (CPE250 hardware, 62kw) to bring them up to NEVI standards. Skycharger is using Electric Era with their battery charging PowerNode system based on SKsignet dispensers. So its a whole big confusion over each site with multiple players and even the locations as nothing was 100% been decided on as to the “upgrade” process when many of the documents were published.
I guess it is going to be a matter of watching those locations and reporting what is “on the ground”.
While the color scheme of the chargers I saw did not look like ChargePoint, they might have been. At least at one time as the ChargePoint app shows nothing in the area now. They did, at a glance, look like some of the 50 kW and 62 kW ChargePoint chargers I have used in the past other than the color scheme. From this discussion, my guess is that they are currently non-functional. I will check back in on this once I have a chance to do a site visit.
The old chargepoint units in Castaic Library were two cpe250s and a dual headed CT4000 L2. It was behind the Las Rocas Bar & Grill and to the east of the Castaic Library at the Castaic Town Center iirc based on receipts I used it in 2019.
I cant comment on color as I cant see it properly. But all of the Skychargers implantation of Electric Eras chargers utilize a vertical screen. There are a couple of random ones that are square.
I know as of last week that Skycharger current active construction sites are
Williams, ca
Chula vista, ca
Hazard, ky
Harrington, de
Camden, de
Arlington, WA
Behind the Las Rocas Bar & Grill? That looks like where OCM-241632 is on the map. I will have to drive by that too when I survey the area near the Shell station on The Old Road by the southbound on ramp.
If those chargers are still physically there, they are no longer being managed by ChargePoint according to their charger location map.
yes, some of those sites that were to be upgraded by nevi compliant versions disappeared from the CP app. So I was expecting the new ones to physically appear in that same site or nearby within the interstate exit /entrance.
