Visited yesterday without charging.
As expected, there are 10 charging spots. The 4 on the left are 320kW and the other 6 are 128kW.
This is the first Migrol location to have more than one of any power types, meaning you have a much better chance of having a 128kW all for yourself.
The green light felt a bit too ghostly in the rain, with it reflecting on the side of the chargers and the ground.
I find the ban sign wording over-complicated. Why not just say "only while charging"? The overstay fees they mention on the sign don't even exist depending on the payment method you use, and you can probably always cheat your way out of the fees by remotely stopping the session. The way it's written kind of implies you can also just pay to park there if you don't intend to charge or outside of some sort of opening hours, but there's no parking meter of any kind and it's of course for charging 24/7.
This is one of few places in Switzerland where competing fast chargers are so close to each other. And this time it isn't Tesla vs IONITY. Comparing Tesla and Migrol at Westside:
- Price: close call, as during Tesla's low tariff of 55ct/kWh, charging on Migrol Classic at the maximum speed gives about the same average price. During Tesla's high tariff, Migrol Classic is then clearly cheaper. But if you need the higher power, Tesla is always cheaper than Migrol Premium
- Payment method: Migrol offers an ad-hoc payment method. Tesla requires an app. Migrol offers Twint and Postfinance, which Tesla doesn't support
- Overstay fees: Tesla has strong overstay fees, guaranteeing a quick turnaround. Migrol has a time-based component but it doesn't increase when the charging is finished or when occupancy is higher
- Power: Migrol offers a higher 320kW compared to Tesla 250kW, but Tesla can power share between any individual stalls while Migrol has to split 160+160kW, making it potentially slower during high occupancy
- Voltage: Only Migrol offers 800V
- Cable length: Migrol offers much longer cables
I don't know whether the ristretto&charge cables are cooled. Teslas's cables are liquid cooled, but I don't know whether this brings any significant advantage.
I also don't know what the total site power is for either of them. It's probably not useful to compare the power budget of all chargers together without knowing if the site limit is above or below that number. Tesla hopefully has more than 1.8MW since they planned room for expanding with a fourth charger cluster. I also hope Migrol planned enough capacity to replace all chargers with 320kW in the future.