Tesla has opened its planned Supercharger voting site, allowing the public to vote for upcoming Supercharger locations.
Tesla superchargers have already reached high levels of penetration – earlier this year Tesla rolled out its 35,000th supercharger stand globally. This represents an increase of approximately 35% year over year in recent years. The Supercharger map shows that there are very few routes left that are not covered by Tesla’s network, and Tesla dominates charging experience satisfaction compared to other charging networks.
But they are continuing to expand the network and hope to fill in the gaps, especially on less common travel routes away from the main interstate highway system.
So last month Tesla decided to “crowdsource” its network development and sent out a tweet asking for location suggestions to be included in a voting system for upcoming Superchargers. The company included the placements that got the most likes in the survey. (Seth’s Bennington, Vermont, suggestion and Fred’s Shawinigan, Quebec, suggestion both made the cut, so if you can’t decide where to vote for your fifth vote, these are a few Electrekhints.)
Today Tesla opened this poll, and you can now vote on the 183 suggestions that were accepted. These locations seem to cover just about every region Teslas are available in – North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia.
How to Vote on Tesla Supercharger Locations
To vote, you need to go to Tesla’s Supercharger voting site, log in to your Tesla account, then view the list and click on your top five suggestions.
Even non-Tesla owners can vote on the suggestions if they have a Tesla Account, which could be important, especially as Tesla plans to open Superchargers to non-Tesla EVs (and is running a trial of the same thing in Europe).
It looks like this system will also be persistent – each person gets five votes during each three-month voting cycle. After three months, the votes are reset and you can vote again. Tesla is also taking suggestions for new locations, and popular suggestions will be added to the next three-month ballot.
Tesla says these votes will “help us decide on new Supercharger locations” — so the votes aren’t, in a sense, “binding” on the company. It’s just another way for them to gather information about routes the public might have difficulty with in addition to the large amounts of information they gather from the public fleet of vehicles and current usage booster stations.
And Tesla still has its own plans for Supercharger rollout – the company briefly disclosed all upcoming Supercharger locations earlier this month, so development is continuing regardless of this vote.
Electrek’s Grasp
There are some parts of the country where non-interstate roads have very little Supercharger coverage. In particular, North-South routes in the Great Plains region have poor coverage.
But in other parts of the country, like rural Northern California and the Oregon Coast, even trips outside the United States are still extremely easy to do, as I recently showed on a trip by electric car 2,200 miles with no preparation and almost no waiting time. to recharge. (Hopefully we get more venues like the excellent Harrisburg, Oregon, Supercharger and their food truck/wine tasting table!)
So it’s a good move by Tesla because there are definitely some routes that can still be tricky, and it will help fill in the gaps that they can’t fill by just reading fleet data.
However, I think there might also be a PR reason for this. Whenever someone criticizes Tesla for not having a Supercharger in their pet slot, Tesla can now point to the poll and say, “OK, go vote for that.” This might relieve the company slightly, as it is now the voters’ fault for not voting enough, rather than their fault for not settling in this or that niche.
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