Regardless of current layoffs, the Tesla Supercharger community is due for an growth, CEO Elon Musk claims.
Tesla will spend “effectively over” $500 million on the Supercharger community this yr, Musk said Friday on X (previously Twitter), the social media community he owns, including that this funding will fund “1000’s” of recent chargers and is separate from any working prices wanted to easily maintain the present community going. For perspective, there are presently 25,507 Tesla Supercharger ports within the U.S. and a couple of,264 station places, in line with the Vitality Division’s Different Fuels Information Middle.
Musk earlier this month fired practically all the Tesla Supercharger group, together with Rebecca Tinucci, the chief who has accelerated development of the community in recent times and helped persuade practically all the U.S. EV market to change to Tesla’s North American Charging Commonplace (NACS) connector.
Simply to reiterate: Tesla will spend effectively over $500M increasing our Supercharger community to create 1000’s of NEW chargers this yr.
That’s simply on new websites and expansions, not counting operations prices, that are a lot larger.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 10, 2024
Ford led the way in adopting the Tesla cost port, in Might 2023, at a time of nice growth for the Supercharger community—and nearly every other U.S. EV brand quickly stepped as much as verify they’d additionally make the swap.
Within the yr since Ford’s announcement, NACS has additionally become an official standard—SAE J3400. That is paving the way in which for extra charging networks so as to add the NACS connector, together with BP, which simply this week stated it’s trying to purchase stranded Supercharger sites ought to Tesla contract the community.
EV advocates could also be hoping for elevated reliability from switching to NACS, given the Supercharger community’s stable repute in that space. However reliability positive aspects throughout the business will take more than a Tesla connector. With about 100 charging station producers and 500 mixtures of automobiles and chargers, it is quite a bit that must be cross-compatible.

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Musk has additionally instructed previously that the Supercharger community would possibly cost additional for slow-charging non-Tesla EVs. We’ll see if that is one thing the automaker introduces sooner or later.
There’s been little backstory about why the Supercharger division was practically shuttered. Musk had just lately truly praised the group as the important thing to its future. And he is given no indication how the Supercharger community will proceed to function at its present stage—not to mention broaden—after so many key personnel have been dismissed.