r/huntingtonbeach 3d ago

HB is a EV charging desert

Outside of 1 Tesla and 1 EA station each, there's not a ton of options in the city proper. Pretty sad

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u/snarky_answer 3d ago

6 EA chargers at Target, 4-6 EVgo chargers at Stater Brothers. 24 tesla chargers at warner/goldenwest, 12 tesla chargers at warner and bushard. Ive never really had to wait more than a few minutes at any of them. Plus many poeple just charge at home in the city.

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u/Pepsichris 3d ago

Some chargers at BofA by Marina too

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/West5ide 3d ago

There are chargers at the target at Brookhurst and Adams and across Brookhurst at shake shack

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u/snarky_answer 3d ago

Adams and Brookhurst is not Westminster, though I did forget about the 24 Tesla chargers at Westminster mall and the 4 EA chargers.

The FV chargers are close enough to HB for it to matter, less than 600 meters from the border to the chargers. Magnolia and Warner is Huntington Beach, one street away at Bushard and Warner is fountain Valley.

Either way there’s even more chargers close by than I initially stated.

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u/shishkabob18 9h ago

No more EA at Westminster Mall.

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u/mylefthandkilledme 3d ago

I just was that in the other comment, I stand corrected.

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u/LigmaLiberty 2d ago

OP is talking about the amount of charging stations not number of chargers at each destination.

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u/P1umbersCrack 3d ago

Yeah. The one across the street from Marina High School only has 3 and every time I drive by they are in use with at least 1 other vehicle waiting.

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u/Accomplished-Ad3219 3d ago

There is always a line there. I work in that parking lot and there is a line at 630 am

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u/SouthernSierra 3d ago

There are several EVGO chargers and some EA chargers at Brookhurst and Adams.

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u/dragonlax 3d ago

Have you seen the amount of lifted F250 pavement princesses there are around here? Definitely a demographic problem

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u/snarky_answer 3d ago

Its that the people who can afford to live in HB and own an EV, will have at home lvl 2 charging and little use for lvl 3 charging.

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u/goldenglove 3d ago

Guilty as charged.

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u/dragonlax 1d ago

That too, I get free lvl 2 charging at work so I never need any other charging expect on a road trip.

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u/chiangku 3d ago

https://www.plugshare.com/directory/us/california/huntington-beach

Says there's 101 charging stations in HB. Not sure how many are public vs private, I know a lot of apartment buildings (newer) have chargers, and a bunch of shopping centers have some. Mostly down the "center", west end of HB is pretty dry.

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u/mylefthandkilledme 3d ago

Alot of those are private L2 chargers, mostly at apt complexes

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u/photosocal 3d ago

Chargers are going in by Mario’s in five points soon, same with the parking lot off goldenwest and McFadden by harbor freight

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u/HeadfulOfGhosts 3d ago

There’s also some chargers across there in Golden West College by the CVS

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u/Able_Bullfrog_3671 3d ago

Walmart beach/ Atlanta......

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u/No_Ebb1052 3d ago

I literally stop in HB to charge my car. Have you ever looked at a map?

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u/Improvmomolyfe 6h ago

Literally had a guy cut me off by going through 4 lanes on beach cuz he said he had to make it home to charge. I don’t have an EV, but for that reason, we could definitely get rid of a fast food restaurant and put in an extra EV station

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u/CongratzJohn 3d ago

No it’s not