Tesla and the White House announced they had reached an agreement for the former to open its network of superchargers to non-Tesla electric vehicles in the United States. The automaker also confirmed plans to double its number of Chargers in the United States.
Over the past year, Tesla has worked to open up its network of superchargers to non-Tesla electric vehicles.
In Europe, Tesla has already opened hundreds of stations in most countries he operates. The automaker has said it plans to do the same by the end of 2022 in North America, but it’s now 2023 and Tesla has yet to do so.
We knew it would be a bit trickier in North America since unlike Europe where Tesla uses the standard CCS connector that’s on all EVs there, here it uses its own proprietary connector, which makes opening the Supercharger to non-Tesla EVs more difficult.
When the automaker decided to open source its proprietary connector in an attempt to make it the new North American standard last year he cast some doubts on Tesla’s plan to open up the grid.
But we’ve since learned that Tesla has a solution for on-boarding EVs with CCS connectors on the Supercharger network with something called the magic wharfwhich is basically a built-in CCS adapter on the Supercharger stands.
With that in place, it’s unclear why Tesla hasn’t yet opened up the Supercharger network to non-Tesla electric vehicles in the United States.
We know that Tesla has a strong incentive to do this because a requirement to access the $7.5 billion in funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure that the federal government has announced is that the chargers work for electric vehicles. more than one automaker.
Today the White House released its official guidelines for this program and as part of the announcement, he confirmed that Tesla had agreed to open the Supercharger network in the United States by the end of 2024.
Additionally, Tesla plans to “more than double” its network of Superchargers in the United States.
Here is the official announcement from the White House:
You’re here, for the first time, will open a portion of its U.S. network of superchargers and destination chargers to non-Tesla electric vehicles, making at least 7,500 chargers available for all electric vehicles by the end of 2024. The open chargers will be distributed across the United States. They will include at least 3,500 new and existing 250kW Superchargers along road corridors to extend freedom of movement for all electric vehicles, and Level 2 destination charging in places like hotels and restaurants in the areas. urban and rural. All EV drivers will be able to access these stations using the Tesla app or website. Additionally, Tesla will more than double its entire nationwide network of Superchargers, manufactured in Buffalo, New York.
The announcement comes just days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Biden administration officials regarding electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
The White House has not disclosed how much funding Tesla will receive under the program.
The Supercharger network is widely considered the best DC fast-charging network in the United States, and Tesla currently has about 60% of the electric vehicle market in the United States.
FTC: We use revenue-generating automatic affiliate links. More.
