Tesla is at present testing the potential for its present Supercharging V4 (with V3 cupboards) to cost at over 300 kW
The Supercharger community is by far the perfect fast-charging community on the planet and it’s laborious to argue towards that.
It’s probably the most in depth, handy, and dependable.
Nonetheless, it has been lagging behind the competitors in a single side: the highest cost charge.
Again in 2016, when speaking about Supercharger V3, I requested if the brand new model of the fast-charging station could be able to 350 kW charging and Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that 350 kW would simply be a “youngsters’s toy”:
Nonetheless, Supercharger V3 ended up restricted to 250 kW. That labored for Tesla automobiles, however Tesla is now opening the community to non-Tesla EVs, and plenty of of them are able to charging at 400 kW, and a number of other different charging stations are able to that cost charge.
Tesla has since moved on to deploying the Supercharger V4, however that has been considerably disappointing attributable to the truth that Tesla is to this point solely deploying new charging stalls and nonetheless utilizing the V3 cupboards, which offer the ability.
These stations are known as Supercharger V3+.
We all know that Supercharger V4 is able to 350 kW charging, however Tesla wants to begin deploying the brand new cupboards to make it occur.
Now, Tesla lead engineer Wes Morrill has revealed that the automaker is at present testing the capability of a few of these V3+ stations to cost at over 320 kW:
He didn’t elaborate on the plan if the trial proves profitable.
Tesla at present operates about 60,000 Superchargers at over 6,000 areas all over the world.
Electrek’s Take
I anticipated that Tesla would finally replace a few of these current V4 Superchargers to the brand new extra highly effective cupboards, however now it appears like Tesla thinks it could possibly get extra out of them.
That’s encouraging information. If you happen to can shorten the charging classes on the community, you enhance its capability.
It’s precisely what Tesla is attempting to do right here.
