A new bank of Tesla charging stations will be going up at WinCo Foods, the 24/7 discount supermarket chain at 1050 Old Alturas Road in Redding.
Construction work starts Monday and will take place over the next two weeks, between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and finish on March 21, according to an email from Redding Engineering Division Construction Manager Kyle Jones.
While construction is going on, portions of Friendly Road and Browning Road may be subject to traffic control, he said.
Redding officials weren’t available Friday afternoon to say how many EV charging bays would be installed.
Those new charging stations will join others in the region.
While other groups have installed charging stations around the city, eight EV charging bays in the Sundial Bridge and Turtle Bay Exploration Park in 2021 became the first that Redding Electric Utility has installed for public use. The area is popular with locals and tourists.
“You should be able to plug it in and go to Turtle Bay and when you come back, it’s fully charged, like within a 30-minute time frame,” said Nick Visconti, assistant engineer with Redding’s Public Works Department at that time.
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The $568,435 cost of that project came from REU’s share of greenhouse gas emission allowances, under California’s cap-and-trade program to reduce pollution.
In 2020, REU installed electric vehicle power stations near City Hall. They’re exclusively used to charge Redding’s expanding electric vehicle fleet.
Here are some of the places where other public EV chargers can be found:
Redding
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1900 Hilltop Dr., Redding Holiday Inn – 44 chargers
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2300 Hilltop Dr., Best Western Plus Hilltop Inn – 2 chargers
Anderson
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5025 Rhonda Rd. – 8 chargers
Cottonwood
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20635 Gas Point Rd. – 8 chargers
Michele Chandler covers public safety, dining and whatever else comes up for the Redding Record Searchlight/USA Today Network. Accepts story tips at 530-338-7753 and at [email protected]. Please support our entire newsroom’s commitment to public service journalism by subscribing today.
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