Tesla is building an entire charging small town in Los Angeles, California. There will be a drive-in movie theater and a restaurant to keep customers entertained while charging their cars. A drone video shows how far the project is.
Aerial footage shows walls going up at the huge Supercharger facility. Located in East Hollywood, the retro-futuristic-looking center is full of construction workers ramping up work to get it ready in time.
The last time we saw videos from the facility, the place was not zooming with people and construction work. Tesla received approval to begin building in August 2023. First interior structures started going up in November, three months into the project.
Elon Musk first mentioned the concept back in 2018, but official renderings were never made public. However, Tesla fans took the liberty to show their own vision of the future Supercharger station, based on Musk's description of the future place. The Milliways restaurant, which will be a circular structure, is taking shape, as the aerial footage depicts. The restaurant will be open 24 hours a day.
The seating area is also taking shape, as visible in the drone-shot video. The center will include two movie screens, with movies being projected on two walls. Musk is planning to play short clips from the best movies of all time, of roughly 30 minutes, but also rock music from the 1950s and waiters riding on roller skates. Solar panels will be part of the plan.
Back in 2018, Elon Musk stated that he was planning to build an old-school drive-in at one of the future Tesla Supercharger locations in LA. He was planning to have it operating by 2020, but we all know Musk when it comes to deadlines.
The gap between the moment Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck in November 2019 and the moment it commenced deliveries in November 2023 is quite relevant. "It will be ready later this year," the Tesla CEO said in a post on X in August 2023. In February 2024, it doesn't look to be anywhere near completion.
Musk was originally planning to build the facility in Santa Monica before finding the final location for it: 7001 West Santa Monica Boulevard in East Hollywood, close to Lost Hills and Highway 46.
People living in the area are worried about the chaos the center will cause on an already busy boulevard and the light that will surround it 24/7, forcing them to close the blinds at night, as reported by NBC Los Angeles in January.
Once it is completed, the Supercharger station will be the world's largest of the kind. Until the Los Angeles Supercharger opens, the Harris Ranch Supercharger in Coalinga, California, is the largest. It includes 98 stalls. The second largest is the one in Quartzsite, Arizona, with 84.
Right now, Tesla is operating over 2,700 active charging stations in the United States, with a total of over 3,000 in North America.
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