Tesla is making ready to open up its supercharging community to non-Tesla EV house owners in North America by the top of the yr. I spoke …
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Tesla is making ready to open up its supercharging community to non-Tesla EV house owners in North America by the top of the yr. I spoke …
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There are so few other EVs that this should not be a problem as long as Tesla keeps expanding the network.
Opening the charging network to everyone gets Tesla that funding to build more which hopefully will negate the overcrowding issue. Given the volume of chargers and the reliability of the network Tesla chargers will likely become the industry standard in the U.S. even if there is an adapter involved.
If Tesla does not open to everyone then one of far less reliable networks will become the standard. All other U.S. makers of EVs have gone straight to using the longer to charge, less reliable networks rather than take up Tesla's offer to become a network partner. They would rather save a few bucks than give their customers the best experience.
People new to EVs will have good reason to return to ICE cars if they only have access to those less reliable/long charge time networks and EV adoption will be slower.
Simple solution: Teslas go to the head of the line, even if that means booting a non-Tesla from a charger.
Thank you Ellie for interviewing Tesla owners on this. I don't live in an area with a lot of Teslas, or even EVs (Mississippi). However I have put about 80K miles on my 2018 M3 LR in the last 4 years & have driven multiple times to all 4 or corners of the lower 48. I charge @ home & use SCs when traveling. Very few times have I had to wait, mostly on the west coast. The SC network is expanding very fast & even though the number of Teslas is outpacing that, I think the vast majority of Tesla owners do most of their charging @ home. Since Tesla monitors SC use, they seem to be increasing locations in high usage areas. I think the situation will improve over all. In my opinion, more people who using Tesla chargers may help other charging networks to be as efficient & easy to use as the Tesla SC network. This will be good for EV adoption.
Some Tesla charger locations in my area (SoCal) are crowded at midnight, and the "high usage" penalty (oops, h.u. limit) is in effect. I did do a daytime charge at one of these locations, with no limit but much higher billing, and I only did enough to raise my range to the minimum I needed.
They aren’t opening the entire network to all EVs; the cars have to be able to accept some minimum charge rate (50kW?); the owners have to get the app and sign up; they will pay a higher rate than owners (or a monthly subscription fee); and Tesla will not open every site and stall to everyone. They have all the usage data and can control which sites and stalls are open, and will only allow a few stalls at each site (at least initially), and possibly none at really busy sites.
I promise this isn’t that only thing I took out of this video but Ellie is a lefty! Go lefties! Lol noticed this in the clip of Ellie signing the Tesla.
Yes, open it up, get the funding to assist in adding more stations to the Tesla Supercharger Network.
Regarding crowding, given the number of EVs from companies other than Tesla is staggeringly small, the chances of EVs other than Teslas causing a crowding problem are also quite small IMHO. As a Tesla owner, me thimks it would be far more likely that I would be competing for Supercharger Stations with other Teslas and rarely with a Chevy Bolt or a Mustang MachE. Granted there will be more non-Teslas on the road in the coming years but there will also be more Tesla Superchargers as well,.plus the other charging options like Electrify America and ChargePoint to name two or many.
That's my 2 scents! 💩💩😁
Relax. It's only for new superchargers they're building so they can get part of that 7.5 billion dollar government fund. By the way, you can charge your Tesla at any CCS charger now. Or at least I can. And by the way, there's a rapidly growing other infrastructure out there which is expanding even faster than Tesla's network right now (Elon knows it, and knows full well what he's doing). So Tesla owners can't have it both ways. Those super busy Tesla Stations won't be open to other EV's any time soo. It's only those that have few visitors and new ones that will be opened.
"it's already PRETTY crowded here". STOP FEARMONGERING!!!! do what Tesla does DEAL IN FACTS. tesla holds almost %80 of the U.S. Ev fleet. That means, that there MIGHT be %20 more traffic. So, is there %20 capacity there? GIVE US THE FACTS, and don't soft sell drama! Is the supercharger network growing as fast as vehicle sales? If so, there will be no bottleneck. Is tesla planning to charge non tesla owners MORE than tesla owners? Then it's a FREAKING PROFIT CENTER FOR THE COMPANY, and that will pay for more expansion. You come from a journalistic background, but I see NONE of that in this piece especially the fluff "what are your thoughts" when you didn't give them enough FACTS to make up their mind with the full information. WWWKD (What Would Walter Kronkite do?)
As a Tesla owner from Norway, Europe here, I can say thats its not an issue.
There are a couple of things that alleviate queues:
– Tesla only opens up superchargers with spare capacity (in Norway, about 2/3 of superchargers are open to others)
– Even with a lot of other electric cars available and in use (the most worldwide, I believe), Teslas are still dominating the market. This means that the change from before opening to after opening will be modest.
– Most other electric car owners are those that do much of their charging from home, simply due to the less pervasive non-Tesla chargers out there
– Tesla is building new superchargers constantly, relieving congested sites
"Tesla news" this is fun. Ellie in the streets
2:40 Southpaw!
Don't open it up…. so many Tesla haters charging right next to you. I like when I go to a Tesla charger (and I've been to more than most people – driven cross country 6 times) and it is nice having all Tesla owners there. AND we are the ones that supported Tesla in the first place and for "other" EVs to be charged (no pun intended) the same rate…. whack.
Looking forward to all these advancements!
Io is right, of course!
Tesla is opening its network in order to collect significant federal subsidies. Besides, the price of charging will be at lest as high as on other networks, such as Electrify America. so, non-Tesla drivers will use superchargers as the last resort, for financial reasons. Also, we don't know how will Tesla handle stall reservations, and will Tesla drivers have priorit.
Given relative sales, the greater cause of congestion at superchargers are Model 3 and Model Y, not every other EV.
In Australia Tesla owners are hogging the non Tesla chargers so I feel that it is good enough for us non Tesla EV owners to be able to use the Tesla fast charging network. At the moment between Adelaide in South Australia and my home in mid north South Australia there is currently no charging access from any other network except there is Tesla fast chargers that I cannot use and that makes me angry, those chargers are at my half way point of my journey.
Zero Emissions…
Much ado about nothing. The Tesla Owner is clueless. Your attempt a sensational journalism is sad and pathetic.
Numerous articles have been written that up to 20 percent of public EV charging stations are not working. I believe that public charging stations are government provided charging stations approved by politicians not engineers. I notice that Tesla high capacity charging stations are all over the place easily within a hundred miles of each other. Tesla builds for profit and easy of operation for customers
I bought a CCS-1 adapter and have used it three times. Twice on EA and once on EVGo stations and all three times over 50% of the available stalls were INOP. And the LCD screens were virtually useless in the sun. I fear non-Tesla's are going to flood the SuperChargers because they work and are plug and play. I hope Elon has a plan for that surge.
This whole issue has been handled badly, just like every other connector in the history of connectors, each manufacturer wants to work independantly. The ideal would be that any EV should be able to charge at any charging station, cost being the only reason to choose one over another – competition is non-existant right now.
I would gladly take a stay in your own lane policy, if Teslas would stop tying up level two charging, often just parking in the spot. 2 blocks from a supercharger station. Often three out of four are Teslas. I don't understand why so many Mach Es,, Bolts, Teslas are public charging anyway, I would just charge at home. Maybe they get scared when they get below 60%.
space cadette Ellie !!!!!
So
When are the Restaurant
With a charging stations ?
Will help Tesla fund Upgrading their network to 800 volts and fund changing their US cars and chargers to a standard plug. Sooner or later Tesla will have to do that all.
Buc-ees #204, Calhoun, GA, my hometown
just opened the first Tesla supercharging station in our area, earlier this week
Waiting purchase a Tesla of my own as well…someday! I think any concerns are a bit overblown. First, there just aren't that many non-Tesla EVs. Second, not all non-Tesla owners are going to sign up immediately (they should, but they won't :-0 ) And third, it will take time for non-teslas who sign up to get the adapter- Tesla could use this to control the rollout, if needed. And lastly, with the new Federal Funding, it will accelerate the rollout of more Tesla Super Chargers than would otherwise occur, so overall, Tesla owners should not see a huge difference, I wouldn't think. Plus, I'm sure Tesla is using its experience in Europe to help guide them here.
Just like phone adapter swap stack cord heads, on hand set phones, EV stands can be more universal to vehicles inputs.