Electric Car Charging Station Ready To Open?

Published in the High Desert Advocate April 9, 2021 Edition.

Last February 12, 2021 we reported about Wendover getting four (4)electric charging stations at a very convenient place, the local Smith’s market. And here is the progress, it looks like it is ready to operate very soon. But nobody at Electrify America was ready to say the true opening date yet. So we will keep you posted.                The company building it, Electrify America, is also the one who will operate it. They are paying for it, and Kroeger, who  own West Wendover Smith’s Market, doesn’t lease or charge anything to that company. But Kroeger/Smith is adding a great service to his customers, locals and passing through. The advantage is evident, locals are used to shop at Smith and they will continue no matter what. But people in the market for an electric car had second thoughts before that, being far from everything, about 120 miles to Salt Lake City Utah and 109 miles to Elko Nevada. So I-80 travelers need to know they can recharge half way from Salt Lake to Elko. But Wendover has already a Tesla charging station in town and an other station(not Tesla)with 2 outlets at the Wendover Welcome Center right in the middle of town (two little towns of West Wendover and Wendover Ut). There people coming from the highways (I-80 and Alt. 93) could rest, and enjoy the local park. Now they also will be able to go shopping while their car recharge. The Smith location, with 2 ‘up to 150 kilowatts, and two ‘up to 350 kilowatts for a total of 4 is projected to open in the summer of 2021, said Emily Lambe at the communication department, last February.

Wendover:

       Located at SMITH (Kroger’s), it will provide local and traveling customers with the ability to charge their vehicle while they are grocery shopping or run errands near by(post office…)

      The customers will be able to pay at the station using a credit or debit card, or via the Electrify America mobile app

     Electrify America EV Charging Stations in NV, UT:

Stations currently open in NV: 7

• Battle Mountain

• Elko

• Fernley

• Las Vegas

• Mesquite

• Sparks

• Winnemucca

Stations currently open in UT: 10

• Beaver

• Cedar City

• Green River

• Perry

• Richfield

• Salina

• Salt Lake City

• Scipio

• Spanish Fork

• Washington

  Charging Agreements with Automakers while any compatible electric vehicle can charge using the Electrify America network, we also work with many different automakers to offer charging agreements that provide owners of select models with deals on charging. This type of collaboration helps incentivize adoption of new EVs coming onto market and educate drivers on public fast charging. Previously announced deals include Audi e-tron (9/17/18 release), Ford Mustang Mach-E (6/15/20 release), Harley-Davidson LiveWire (7/11/19 release), Lucid Air (9/25/18 release), Porsche Taycan (1/28/19 release), and VW ID.4 (9/21/20 release), among others.

Visit https://www.electrifyamerica.com/locate-charger/ to see official addresses for all these locations(Nevada, Utah and more), along with all ‘coming soon’ sites under development. 

About Electrify America:

Electrify America is the largest open ultra-fast EV charging network in the U.S., available to almost all EVs on the road today. The network currently offers more than 550 charging stations with more than 2,400 individual fast chargers. Electrify America plans to have installed or have under development approx. 800 total stations with about 3,500 DC fast chargers by the end of 2021.