- After a disappointing second quarter, Tesla Supercharger deployments rose in Q3.
- Tesla’s DC quick charging community grew by 23% in comparison with final yr.
The Tesla Supercharger community of electrical car quick chargers noticed a wholesome uptick in deployments within the third quarter after a disappointing Q2 brought on by the huge shock layoffs in April that prompted the entire business to take a step again and ask, “What the hell is occurring?”
In Q3 2024, Tesla’s charging division opened 2,800 new Supercharger stalls globally, amounting to a 23% year-over-year development, the corporate shared on its official X account final week. By comparability, in Q2, the workforce recorded a 31% year-over-year decline in new stall deployments.
That is excellent news for everyone driving an EV, not simply Tesla homeowners, as a result of the Supercharger community is now open to Ford, Rivian and Normal Motors, with extra lined as much as take part on the motion within the coming months.
Nonetheless, it’s value reiterating that these numbers are for the worldwide community and that non-Tesla EVs made by the aforementioned automotive manufacturers solely have entry to stalls in North America (Magic Dock-enabled stalls and a few non-Tesla unique stalls in Europe and different components of the world have been already open to different manufacturers.)
So, we’ll need to go by the estimates supplied by Supercharge.data, an internet site that tracks the community’s goings by contributors to see what occurred on this aspect of the planet. Based on them, there have been 2,677 Supercharger stations open on the finish of September in North America, 125 greater than on the finish of the second quarter and 318 greater than at first of the yr.
Estimates present that there are a complete of just about 28,000 particular person chargers at 2,410 stations in the US, whereas the full variety of stations in North America is 2,668. Europe has almost 1,300 stations and the Asia Pacific area provides one other 2,700 stations for a world complete of 6,683 operational stations, in keeping with Supercharge.data. There are additionally 323 websites below building and an extra 1,128 deliberate, so it’s clear that issues aren’t fairly as unhealthy as we beforehand thought.