Many Tesla homeowners who tow have skilled issue in having to detach their trailers when charging at Superchargers. Many have requested pull-through charging lanes, although solely a handful of Tesla’s charging stations embody them.
This week, nonetheless, the automaker opened one in all its largest Supercharger stations but, that includes a few tow-friendly chargers, photo voltaic canopies, and a staggering variety of common stalls.
Tesla opened a brand new Supercharger station in Quartzsite, Arizona, this week, as posted to the @TeslaCharging X account on Tuesday. Together with 4 photo voltaic canopies of various sizes, the station additionally has two charging stalls alongside a pull-through lane, providing easy accessibility for these with trailers.
It additionally has 2 pull via chargers in case you are towing. pic.twitter.com/rEche7NgGW
— John Mikita (@VanquishAZ) September 5, 2023
You could find an ongoing grasp checklist of tow-friendly Superchargers on the Tesla Motors Club discussion board, now together with the Quartzsite station.
Upon completion, the station is about to incorporate 84 Supercharging stalls, although solely 60 of them are at the moment lively, whereas the opposite 24 stay coated. All of them are V3 Superchargers, that means they provide as much as 250 kW of max energy for sooner charging.
The brand new Supercharger station is positioned at 350-370 Fundamental Occasion Lane in Quartzsite, Arizona, not removed from one other station, together with each V2 and V3 stalls. Crucially, the station can also be proper off of the closely traveled Interstate 10, which runs via a number of Southern states from Florida to California.
The information comes simply months after automakers together with Ford, General Motors (GM), Rivian, and extra introduced plans to construct their future fashions with Tesla’s charging port. The shift will give these and different manufacturers entry to Tesla’s huge Supercharging community, although many present homeowners have expressed issues over stations turning into extraordinarily busy.
In Tesla’s replace letter for the primary quarter of the yr, the automaker famous that it had 4,947 Supercharger stations, marking a 33 % enhance yr over yr, and representing as many as 269 stations in-built Q1 alone. Since posting the latest Quartzsite station on Tuesday, the Tesla Charging account has additionally shared 10 different new Supercharger stations with a complete of 129 new stalls.
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