G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com

Tesla's World's Largest Supercharger Station Opens

Tesla has been on a fast pace build out of supercharger stations around the world and in fact has two 40 stall supercharger stations under construction in California. Now comes word via a Tesla S owner Jason Man in China that they have opened up the largest Tesla Supercharger Station in Shanghai with 50 stalls, capability to charge 3 megawatts of power per hour. This is located in the Lilacs International Commercial Centre, Pudong district of Shanghai.

China has committed to opening 10's of thousands of charging stations over the next 2 years adding to the extensive network offered by Tesla across China. Tesla has stated they now have over 1032 Supercharging stations world wide with over 7,300 Superchargers. Their network while focused on their own auto's is available to others for a nominal fee in some countries for charging by non-Tesla EV auto's.

According to other news reports, Tesla has signed a deal with China to build and bring online within 18 months a second GigaFactory in mainland China to support Tesla's rapid growth of EV auto production in China.

Pictures compliments of Jason Man of China posted to webchat.

Tesla Supercharger web site

electrek story

2 hours ago, dfelt said:

 Tesla has stated they now have over 1032 Supercharging stations world wide with over 7,300 Superchargers.

This line is confusing to me. 

3 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

This line is confusing to me. 

Tesla breaks out how many stations like a gas station they have and then how many chargers are at the station. In this case they have 1,032 stations around the world or equal to gas stations. With those stations having about 8 supercharger outlets per station. 

Kinda like saying we have 1,000 gas stations with 8 pumps per station or about 8,000 pumps as an example.

Makes sense now?

17 hours ago, dfelt said:

Tesla breaks out how many stations like a gas station they have and then how many chargers are at the station. In this case they have 1,032 stations around the world or equal to gas stations. With those stations having about 8 supercharger outlets per station. 

Kinda like saying we have 1,000 gas stations with 8 pumps per station or about 8,000 pumps as an example.

Makes sense now?

Ohhhhh yeah that makes perfect sense now! Thanks!

Bespoke chargers that only serve one brand of car are going to stop making sense very soon, particularly on a scale such as this. 

3 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Bespoke chargers that only serve one brand of car are going to stop making sense very soon, particularly on a scale such as this. 

Seems the following story on Electrek is that Tesla has been using the European standard mennekes plug also in China till this summer when China came out with their own GB standard plug.

Tesla Proprietary plug is on the left and China GB plug is on the right. This has forced tesla to change from having it in the lense of the rear taillight to a gas type door on the rear quarter panel.

GB port plugged in.

According to the standard since Tesla has joined the CCS group to promote that as a global charge standard, they have also stated they would have adapters to plug into the cords. Seems this would allow others to use the supercharger stations too.

Interesting,

https://electrek.co/2017/10/16/tesla-new-dual-charge-port-design-model-s-model-x/

Perhaps in future there will be compatibility, but right now, the super charger stations only work with cars that the station recognizes. I don't know if they read the VIN or what.