Tesla is closing in on one year of construction at its Los Angeles diner, drive-in theater, and Supercharger, just as recent photos from the site show the first V4 Supercharger stalls going in.
In a post on Saturday, X user AL Set posted photos of the new V4 Supercharger posts wrapped in cardboard as they’re being installed onto the concrete curbs. The diner building is also coming together quite nicely as it starts to look like an establishment where electric vehicle (EV) owners will soon be able to charge, eat, and relax in front of one of two movie screens.
Credit: AlSet51241438 | X
Credit: AlSet51241438 | X
Original plans for the site show around 25 charging stalls, though the series of permit approvals we reported on last year allows the company to install as many as 32 posts. It’s not clear at this point how many stalls the site will end up with, but the first stalls being V4 will definitely be met with appreciation by some who have been speculating about this for several months now.
The X user also shared a few other photos from the site on Saturday, including some good peeks at the interior:
Credit: AlSet51241438 | X
Initial construction on the Tesla Diner, located at 7001 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood, began late last September, and the initial structures for the restaurant building had gone up by early November. Many of the ideas for the Tesla diner site came from Elon Musk in 2018 musings on what was then Twitter, primarily including the concept of an “old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant.”
Musk also talked about the idea of having a menu pop up in Tesla vehicles as soon as they start charging, effectively streamlining the process of ordering food.
In addition to including a 1950s-themed diner restaurant, the site is expected to include two drive-in movie theater screens, the frames of which are now built, and on which patrons will be able to watch clips from the best movies in history while charging their vehicles and eating. Construction crews initially built the frame for the first movie screen in March, the second frame was built at the end of July after some power lines that had been blocking construction had finally come down.
You can also check out footage of the site shared earlier this month by 247Tesla, which shows that the final grading of the parking lot area was nearly complete as of about two weeks ago.
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