Tesla has opened its \u201clongest Supercharger station in the world\u201d through a growing partnership with a French supermarket company.<\/p>\n
There are larger, bigger Supercharger stations in the world, but apparently, there are none longer.<\/p>\n
Tesla is currently growing its Supercharger network at an impressive rate.<\/p>\n
The automaker went from 23,277 Superchargers at 2,564 stations at the end of 2020 to 31,498 Superchargers at 3,476 stations at the end of 2021. That\u2019s growing at a 35% year-over-year pace.<\/p>\n
However, it is lagging behind vehicle deliveries, which grew 87% during the same period of time \u2013 on top of now gradually starting to allow non-Tesla EV owners to use the network.<\/p>\n
It also lags behind\u00a0Tesla\u2019s own goal to triple the Supercharger network in two years<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the automaker is nonetheless deploying new and larger stations at an impressive rate.<\/p>\n Most stations are similar in characteristics, but we try to track some of the most interesting ones and a new one opening in France this week is notable for being the \u201clongest Tesla Supercharger in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n Tesla launched a partnership with E.Leclerc, a supermarket in France, to open Supercharger stations at their location.<\/p>\n Over the last month, it launched a 16-stall V3 Supercharger at the\u00a0E.Leclerc\u00a0Montauban location and a eight-stall V3 Supercharger at the\u00a0E.Leclerc\u00a0Saint-Gaudens location.<\/p>\n This week, Tesla opened a new V3 Supercharger at\u00a0E.Leclerc Beaune and it\u2019s a 28-stall station, which is a big station, but nowhere near enough stalls to make it one of the biggest in the world.<\/p>\n However, it is configured in a way that makes it the longest Supercharger in the world, according to Quentin Vannier, Tesla\u2019s regional manager for charging infrastructure in France (via LinkedIn<\/a>).<\/p>\n With all 28 stalls side-by-side, it does look to be particularly long in pictures:<\/p>\n The station is also one of a few in France that is open to not just Tesla owners but all EV owners as part of Tesla\u2019s pilot program to open access to the Supercharger network.<\/p>\n We expect that Tesla is going to continue accelerating its Supercharger station deployment in the coming months, especially with its new pre-fab method that can deploy a new station in days<\/a>.<\/p>\n