Tesla builds charging station in Hollywood with restaurant and movies – NBC Los Angeles

If you’ve taken a trip down Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood in recent weeks, you may have noticed the futuristic development currently under construction.

Tesla is building a 24-hour restaurant with two movie screens and about 30 electric vehicle charging stations.

Tesla has said very little about the development publicly, but in documents shared with the city, it suggests that the movie screens will show short films — about 30 minutes or the amount of time required to charge an electric car.

Hannah Burns lives nearby and is excited about the project.

“I feel like this is very smart,” Burns said. “Everyone here has electric cars, so I can’t imagine it wouldn’t be a good idea.” “I think it will be beneficial and will encourage more people to switch to electricity.”

But others are more skeptical. Ridge Rose has questions about how this will affect traffic on an already busy street, and he feels for his neighbors, too.

“Like if you live here in this apartment, I’m so sorry but you’re catching a lot of light. I hope you close the curtains because that’s going to cause a lot of attraction here and the parking isn’t really the best in Los Angeles,” Rose said.

Elon Musk first floated a similar idea in 2018 when he posted on

Although it is unclear whether this concept is a result of this vision, some say there is a need for supercharging centers as more and more electric cars appear on the road.

“Right now there are two or two charging stations or maybe three charging stations in the underground parking lot, or it’s in the parking lot of the gym I go to, but if it’s full, what do you do?” Fred Lemke said. “This is actually an attempt to embed the use of electric vehicles in our community as opposed to the regular gas stations we have for regular gas cars.”

NBC4 attempted to reach out to Tesla for comment, but did not receive a response. At this point, it’s unknown when the restaurant and supercharged movie theater might open.