Electric car company Tesla Motors is planning to put its first Nebraska charging station at a Lincoln Hy-Vee store.
The company filed an application last week with the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission for a charging station at the Hy-Vee at 5020 N. 27th St. in the Lincoln Crossing shopping center.
According to the application, the station would be built in the southwestern corner of the store's parking lot and would have eight back-in charging stations.
According to a map on Tesla's website, the proposed Hy-Vee charging station would be the first one in Nebraska available to the public. A charging station opened in Council Bluffs last year to serve the Omaha market.
A May article on the 24/7 Wall St. website listed Nebraska as one of just six states without a Tesla charging station.
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A PowerPoint presentation included with the Planning Department application shows three other proposed Tesla charging stations in the state -- one in central Nebraska and two in western Nebraska.
Unlike other electric car charging stations installed around the country, including in Lincoln, Tesla chargers are only for use with Tesla's cars.
It appears from the application that the charging stations would be "superchargers," which can give a Tesla car's battery a full charge in as little as 30 minutes.
Hy-Vee referred all questions to Tesla. The Tesla representative whose name was on the application declined to comment, and Tesla's media relations department did not return emails seeking comment.
City planner Andrew Thierolf said Tesla did not give a timetable for construction of the charging station.