California has approved four new Tesla Supercharger locations in rural areas, each of which will charge Teslas and other EVs.
The problem is, Tesla uses its own charging standard for the cars it sells in North America. Everyone else uses CCS except Nissan, which uses CHAdeMO. In Europe, Teslas are equipped at the factory with CCS 2 charging ports, so it’s a little easier for Tesla to allow cars from other manufacturers toTesla would be happy to get some federal funding to bolster its Supercharger network in the US, but there is a question of how exactly that would work.
Another conundrum for Tesla is how to keep its customers happy if they get to a Supercharger location only to find all the chargers are being used by Volkswagen, Volvo, GM, Ford, Kia, Hyundai, and Rivian drivers. One of Tesla’s main selling points is access to the Supercharger network.that is stored on the Supercharger itself with an electronic lock that only allows it to be used by authorized drivers who must replace it before their car is allowed to drive away. Doable but tricky to implement.
Latching onto some federal dollars would be nice, too. The arrangement with California could well be a precursor of how opening up the Supercharger network to other drivers all across North America would work. Recently, the great state of Texasat a proposal by Tesla to install 700 Superchargers in that state that would supply both Teslas and other EVs. And yet, California has embraced a similar proposal.
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