{"id":8975,"date":"2025-07-17T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:00:08","slug":"queens-to-work-with-tesla-on-possibility-of-adding-fast-charging-ev-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/07\/17\/queens-to-work-with-tesla-on-possibility-of-adding-fast-charging-ev-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens to work with Tesla on possibility of adding fast-charging EV stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5663\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5663\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Queens-Place-1024x583.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of a recreation facility\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Queens-Place-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Queens-Place-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Queens-Place-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Queens-Place-1536x875.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Queens-Place.jpg 1740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queens Place Emera Centre. File photo by Ed Halverson<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There could be more fast-charging stations for electric vehicles in the Liverpool area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The region will enter an agreement with Tesla to do a feasibility study about installing new supercharging EV stations at Queens Place Emera Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is one fast-charging station now at the Sobeys in Liverpool. There are also chargers at the Best Western and at White Point Beach Resort. Nova Scotia Power plans two other fast-charging stations near the visitor information centre on the waterfront.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mayor Scott Christian said Region of Queens council discussed the agreement in a closed session this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is very much actual technical feasibility. Can we get enough electrical supply there? Will the grid support it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said the new stations would likely support any electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy understanding is that anyone with a modern EV has an adaptor. They\u2019re the fourth-generation ones with super high-speed capabilities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christian said the municipality will consult with Nova Scotia Power on the technical aspects of installing the equipment at Queens Place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There could be more fast-charging stations for electric vehicles in the Liverpool area. The region will enter an agreement with Tesla to do a feasibility study about installing new supercharging EV stations at Queens Place Emera Centre. There is one fast-charging station now at the Sobeys in Liverpool. There are also chargers at the Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3292,3290,1360,3291,39,351,3293,3289],"class_list":["post-8975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-charging-station","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-ev","tag-ev-charging-station","tag-liverpool","tag-queens-place-emera-centre","tag-supercharging","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8976,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions\/8976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}