Last night, spotted the newest Bay Area Blink QC. Someone else had beaten me to spotting it by a few hours, and posted it and a photo on Plugshare. It's in the public City Hall Garage in downtown Hayward, in the middle of the block bordered by Mission Blvd., Watkins St., B and C streets. It's located on the ground floor on the east side, facing Mission. It appears to be fully functional, although it and the parking spaces to either side are currently cordoned off. There's two Yazaki connectors, one for the charging car and one for the waiting car. The connectors are heavier duty than the original model, although I still don't like that the locking lever is unprotected. There's a large display (and two smaller ones, one per connector, which you use to set up your charge); although at the moment the larger display is used to demonstrate how to use the unit and also advertise Ecotality/Blink, I'd be willing to bet it will eventually be used for paid advertising like those gas pumps I can't stand.
At the moment there isn't a nearby L2, but there is one at Walgreen's on Jackson about 1.5 miles west, and another couple at Chabot College (off Depot Rd. at Hesperian) on the west side of 880, both closer to the San Mateo Bridge. Those are all Chargepoint. So they've now got both ends of the bridge covered with QCs.
There's also a conduit running from behind the unit off along the wall to the right, ending in a small, square, yellow cap with some sort of keyed barrel lock extending out from the front face. It seems like the conduit should extend farther to the right if they're going to put an L2 adjacent, so I don't know what this thing is for.
There aren't any 'EV charging only' signs as yet, and they haven't painted the ground (don't know if they're going to) in the two parking spaces. The unit occupies what was the middle space of three. It's actually almost in the same spot as the chargers they used to have for the two RAV4 EVs the city owned or leased, but when they got rid of the RAV4s they also removed the chargers and all the conduit, so this is all new work. The city owns or leases at least one Leaf, but they charge that elsewhere.
Although it probably would have been more useful to locate it right off 880 at the Jackson/92 interchange, this isn't a bad spot. In addition to having City Hall, the Post Office, the Library and a Lucky's within a block, within 1.5 blocks there are also 3 banks (U.S., Comerica and Union plus a Chase ATM in Lucky's), a UPS store, Ace Hardware, and by my count 11 fast food places: Peet's; Starbuck's; Subway; Panda Express; Cold Stone Creamery; Jamba Juice; Shark Shack (taqueria); Los Perico's (ditto); Wing Fiesta; Casper's (hot dogs); and The Pizza House (by the slice). There's also six or seven sit down places. Plus, lots of people take Jackson/Mission through Hayward to bypass the 880/238 interchange, so it's pretty much on a main commute route.
And for those like Planet4Ever who are (rightly) leery of counting on a single QC in San Ramon for longer trips, this gives them options. They can plan to charge here and, if it isn't working, continue on to San Ramon to charge instead without having to go too far out of the way.
I'll check it every couple of days and let people know when they've unblocked it, although I have no way to check its functionality. Edit: Added it to Recargo, will change 'coming soon' to 'operational' as soon as they unblock it.