Musk – 1000s Of Superchargers Are In Permitting/Construction Phases

No, the grey is there Tesla hopes they will open super chargers in the future, then it will happens is a good question. They have been grey marks for super chargers down to Istanbul since 2015 I believe and they have not been under construction that long.

Name checks out.

Funny 🙂

A Tesla will still go further with electricity made on a diesel generator than a diesel vehicle would on the same amount of fuel.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-hHggAYFM

Good job locating the negative exception to the positive norm. To be fair, while you’re at it, why don’t you spend the next 8-10 hours posting all the pics of the Supercharging locations with solar attached.

Not sure if you’re attempting to ding Tesla for that or just sharing it because it’s funny, but that is indeed hilarious. It’s a destination charger, not an official Tesla Supercharger. I’m just curious about who set it up., because it wasn’t Tesla. Some people just don’t get it…

There’s also those drag-racing enthusiasts who hooked up a couple of home high-power chargers (which is essentially all a destination charger is) to the back of a mobile Diesel generator on the back of a truck so they could charge at the track (sorry, can’t find pics or a link, but it was a couple of years ago). I guess they just like Teslas for the speed, not for saving the planet.

Not if Musk can help it …that’s aFluke..

That button you see, with your name on it. Please press it down, really hard.

That’s not a Supercharger, but thanks for playing.

1) So a diesel generator of that size has nowhere near the capacity to run even a single supercharger.

2) Those aren’t superchargers, they’re destination chargers

3) It’s highly unlikely, to the point I would say I’m certain, that the generator is connected to the chargers in any direct fashion.

4) I would bet money that is simply a backup generator for a nearby building, that happens to be located near the destination chargers for that building. Which would make sense because the power infrastructure / connections would all be in the same physical area.

5) Nice try though, that’s almost funny.

This is a fake to compromise Tesla.
The “diesel” is a pellet-heater and has nothing to do with the charger.

Charging for supercharging will mitigate most of this. I bet the majority of supercharger use right now is not because of a need but because it is free power. Once it is not free power, usage will decrease substantially.

A Million …..I hope !

They charge you the local charge for electricity. Between 08-26 cents. Around 12cents per kWh, on average.

I talked to a new TM3 owner a couple weeks ago and he said a full charge is costing him about $15 here in CA.

He specifically says *locations*…

But sueprcharge.info is not an exhaustive list – there are things that don’t show up until a TMC member finds one (either a publicly published permit or actual construction site) and notifies the supercharge.info site owner.

If you look at the supercharger map on Tesla.com, there are tons and tons and tons of grey (future) dots on the map.

He said there’d be a new map coming out soon. Perhaps your info isn’t up to date since it hasn’t been, you know, updated yet.

Land grab? Explain. Most superchargers I’ve visited are at the far end (least used) part of a parking lot that already exists.

I would argue that Tesla’s Supercharger system is the only one that’s worthy of being called a “network”. The CCS and CHAdeMO chargers are placed individually, in a haphazard fashion, with no overall planning or any attempt to make their placement part of an overall network.

VW’s “Electrify America” also appears to be an attempt to build a network, but I don’t think enough of those have yet been deployed that it’s really a network. Call it a network-in-progress?

even more important, it would be like shell and chevron have different nozzles that only fit into one brand of car. it was a great idea to jump start the technology change, but it’s complete stupidity at this point that they do not enable local standards (e.g. CCS Typ2 in Europe).

Supercharging is the differentiating factor in Tesla’s overall marketing and sales strategy versus the competition, and a very good one. So why should Tesla co-ordinate anything like this with others that are engaged in providing a competitive service? They throw all sorts of legislative and bureaucratic hurdles in Tesla’s path, and berate the company incessantly, so don’t expect Elon to do the rest of us any favors. After all, Tesla does own those superchargers and spends all that money building the networks. Also, Tesla charging plugs are not compatible with other EV models.

The best of all worlds would be a common plug design to reduce the need for adapters. From there, it would be better to have the sites more diffuse. When we were planning a trip to southern Ohio (from Chicago) we went past Indianapolis, but with the Supercharger all the way on the south of the city, we had to take the west loop around Indy instead of the shorter route. If Tesla and EA and anyone else working on this problem were all building to the same standard, we could take whatever route we wanted sooner.

One of the things I had hoped HRC would have done had she been elected is to open up the nation’s rest areas to EV charging stalls. There’s a weird regulation preventing commerce at those locations that’s still preventing them from being installed in most spots. But every highway rest area should have DC fast chargers so when you stop to pee, the car tops off a bit.

Yeah, when I saw that name, I checked that twitter account to see if it was the same person.

I guess he is going to ‘hack’ his Tesla. 😉

Don’t you mean ‘infamous’ hacker? 😉

Yeah, figure 8 cents a mile. Plug In Hybrid is much cheaper to operate

Nobody is stopping you.

That’ s the best you got? Good!