3. Free Superchargers
If you’re driving a gas powered car you have the luxury of abundance of gas stations to refill them when necessary. For electric vehicles to stand a chance of becoming a new standard you’ve got to have an equivalent, and that’s where Tesla Superchargers come in.
And to call them an equivalent is actually doing them a disservice. When you go to a gas station nowadays you’ve got to be prepared to shell out a hurtful bunch of money. When you drive into a supercharger station you get to recharge your car for free, forever, any time, anywhere there is a supercharger.
It’s extremely hard to beat that, even if you account for the fact that it does take longer to recharge a Tesla than to refill a traditional car. And if you worry that there aren’t enough superchargers around you should take a look at this map. Superchargers are already covering most of the US and central Europe, but when you look at the ones that are coming soon they’re multiplying very fast.
Tesla is clearly hard at work to open up a huge number of new Supercharger stations across the world. At least if you’re in the US and EU this is likely to be a non-issue for you, especially considering the fact that superchargers obviously aren’t the only place you can recharge. Besides your home there are already some EV charging stations by other manufacturers which Tesla cars are compatible with.
And yes, Superchargers are completely solar powered and give off excess of produced electricity back to the grid for free.
Superchargers are a key reason why Tesla is equipped to succeed.
As a side note, the similar story is with Tesla’s stores and service centers, which are cropping up across the world as fast as their superchargers, giving a huge amount of people access to Tesla cars for a test drive, purchase, and service.
Magnus Thunderson
now if tesla can bring the price down to 35k or less with the Tesla 3 that would be a big step as currently Nissan no long has a surplus but a 3 month waiting list and growing and within 2015 lizard battery and there new policy of free charring stations but the lizard battery is not any bigger just better suited for hotter temp like Tampa so still suck at about 80 miles which is just to short of a range so until they get up to at least 125-150 min as both high heat and very cold weather effect the range as well as the age of the battery
ejhr
This gentleman is most certainly NOT starting from first principles! Otherwise he would show he understands the exponential equation and the 2nd law of thermodynamics. he would understand our civilization has already started its slide to destruction and that going to mars or space are pipe dreams. We won’t even be able to keep going with what we have now as the exponential growth in population and consumption will hit a wall, i.e., a finite planet real soon now. we are heading for a resource poor world,a low tech environment with expensive food also probably scarce as well.
Fun times ahead!Not!
WillSpencer
You’re still promoting the two-hundred year old and repetitively disproven Malthusian Fallacy?
ejhr
It’s not ever disproven, just delayed. Don’t tell me you are ignorant of the exponential equation too? [Mind you, most are]
zahid
i have forgotten my paasword as well as not have access to alternate id and i m using other phone number so how can i recover my paasword
salvador
BMW and Mercedes are introducing their electric cars just to show Tesla that they can make it too.
Big car companies are playing catchup.
David Ouyang
Great picture of a car. It is nice to have an ambition which might change the world.
I have heard of many alternative fuels that can run a car, such as grass clippings, algae, etc.
Which alternative fuel will take dominance? I think it is too early to tell. I hope that we will not end up with so many alternatives that we will burden the car manufacturers with building cars to accommodate all fuels. I think though that the government will choose one for us.