Introduction
Trip to visit all the southern lower Michigan Tesla Supercharger sites open to non-Tesla vehicles. This trip took place on July 21,2025.
The Meijer in Jackson station was the 2nd charging stop on my trip to check the southern lower Michigan Tesla sites. This is a popular stop in the middle of Michigan. Based on the usage chart in the Tesla app, this site sees low to moderate usage. (This station opened in November 2023).
Accessibility
This Meijer site is in the parking lot of the superstore business. The site is 0.3 miles from I-94 at exit 137. The charge points are easy to locate once you have navigated to the Meijer parking lot. The stalls are along the southern edge of the parking lot. The spot on the end is designated as the accessible stall. No pull through parking stall.
Amenities
Dining options include: Taco Bell, Arby’s, Subway, Denny’s, Dairy Queen, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Tim Hortons
Shopping options include: Meijer
Car-related services (windshield cleaning, air): Shell and Meijer gas station nearby
Concentration
This is a standard 12 stall V3 location. The dispensers are arranged along the southern edge of the parking lot. The power cabinets and the transformer are placed at the end of the row of dispensers. There are no alternate placement dispensers to help those that might have a charge port that doesn’t work well with the V3 short cables. Most likely those vehicles could use one of the dispensers at the end of the row.
Location
This site supports I-94 east/west interstate. This site sits in the middle. Connecting major cities include Port Huron – 140 miles east, Chicago – 210 miles west, Grayling – 180 miles north and Dayton – 200 miles south.
50 Mile Loop:
150 Mile Range Estimate:
Speed
The currently installed V3 power cabinets can produce up to 500V and 600A. The power cabinets are connected by the high voltage DC bus, and thus can share power amongst all the dispensers. Of course, this 500V limitation reduces the peak charging speeds for some 800V architecture vehicles, but the 600A output works well for lower voltage higher amperage vehicles. Since I am on this trip with Elektra, the 200A, 80kW limit of the vehicle will not be stressing these units at all. The transformer for this site is 1000kVA, enabling more cars to charge faster at this site, so even when busy drivers can expect to get good power.
Summary
I arrived with 66% battery. Over the total 70 miles traveled so far, I still managed an excellent 3.9 mi/kWh. This was the only stop where I was the only electric vehicle there. I was able to plug in with my adapter and get charging without issue. Being in the top third of the battery I did not see full power, but 55 kW is still not bad. When I wanted to end the session, selected end from the app, but this did not seem to actually stop the session, and I could not unplug the connector. At first, I worried that there was something wrong with the adapter, but when I got back in the car to try unlocking to release, I saw the session was still going. From here, I changed the maximum charge level to 70%, which ended the session from the car as the current charge level was 76%. For the rest of the trip, I left the DC charge maximum limit set to 70% and used that most of the time to trigger the end of the session.
Walkable Arby’s or Taco Bell.
What I paid for this stop:
Total Cost: $3.03
Total kWh: 8.4198 kWh
Time: 12 min
Average Charge Speed: 42.1 kW
Cost per kWh: $0.36/kWh
(66% -> 76%)
Alternatives:
One North Kitchen - 2115 Bondsteel Dr, Jackson, MI 49202 - $0.50/kWh - 180kW x 2
(Red E Charge)
Jackson County Airport - 3606 Wildwood Ave, Jackson, MI 49202 - $0.50/kWh (+$0.50) - 50kW x 2 (Red E Charge)
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