View from inside the parking garage, looking roughly west.
Thomas Bros map: page 1207 grid J6
GPS: 32 53.968N 117 14.579W +121m (post-SA)
Site description: Along the west side of North Torrey Pines Road, north of John Jay Hopkins Drive and south of Science Park Road. Going southbound on North Torrey Pines you can turn into the complex at the sign marked "deliveries and receiving". Going northbound, you can enter at John Jay Hopkins and drive through the main pay parking lot to the garage.
Charger description: One pedestal charger inside the beige multi-level parking garage halfway up the complex. It is on the south wall of the garage on the "G" (not underground) level, left of the elevators.
Parking fee: $1 per half hour, $8/day max for the pay parking lot.
What to do while waiting: Nice view of the ocean. The Torrey Pines Golf Course is nearby.
If you really get bored, you might try tracing the power feed to the charger. This is the most elaborate electrical installation I've seen that's dedicated to a single EV charger. A 3/4" conduit run hundreds of feet long along the garage wall two floors down carries 480V to a 100 A fused disconnect switch and a 15 kVA stepdown transformer (weight: 155 pounds) to the right of the charger.
ICEing: Never encountered.
Charger supply voltage: 240
Notes: This charger used to be in an employee-only section of the parking garage. As of fall 2001, the garage was repartitioned to make that section open to the public (the charger itself was not moved).
This is one of the very few public chargers with a 240V feed, meaning it charges about 15% faster than the others.
Entry by: Phil Karn, 23 Sep 1998; updated 22 Oct 2001
Photo by Ted Walton; courtesy of SDG&E