{"id":37694,"date":"2022-12-06T19:07:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=37694"},"modified":"2022-12-06T19:07:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:07:01","slug":"elon-musk-biden-tesla-opening-supercharger-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=37694","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk tells Biden Tesla is opening its Supercharger network, but how?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk told President Biden that Tesla is opening its Supercharger network, but the plan has been unclear since Tesla opened its charge connector.<\/p>\n

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Over the last year, Tesla has been working to open its Supercharger network to non-Tesla electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

In Europe, Tesla has already opened hundreds of stations in most countries <\/a>it operate s in. The automaker indicated that it planned to do the same by the end of the year in North America, but it has yet to do it. <\/p>\n

At first, we thought it was due to the added complexity of not having CCS connectors on its Superchargers as it does in Europe, but Tesla recently made the situation murkier by proposing its own connector as a new charging standard in North America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It seemed like Tesla was going to offer CCS to Tesla adapters to non-Tesla EV owners or incorporate CCS adapters at its Supercharger stations.<\/p>\n

The open-sourcing of its connector has now cast some doubts on those plans.<\/p>\n

This weekend, President Biden tweeted about the US government\u2019s plan to help build 500,000 charging stations:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re building 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations across the country. The great American road trip will be fully electrified.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded by saying \u201cor you can just buy a Tesla\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Musk seems to imply that Tesla\u2019s Supercharger network already enables \u201cthe great American road trip,\u201d which is a fair point considering that there are not many regions of the United States you can\u2019t access with Tesla\u2019s charging network.<\/p>\n

Then the CEO added that Tesla still plans to \u201cenable other EVs to use Tesla Superchargers\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Worth mentioning that Tesla has open-sourced its charge connector and is enabling other EVs to use Tesla Superchargers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Musk confirms that opening the Supercharger network to other EVs is still in the plan, but it\u2019s still unclear how it will happen.<\/p>\n

As we previously reported, Biden\u2019s federal government is now offering billions of dollars in incentives for companies to build charging stations to achieve the 500,000 stations goal that he mentioned. In order to be eligible, companies need to deploy stations available to EV models from more than one automaker \u2013 which is why Tesla needs to open up its network.<\/p>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

Based on Musk\u2019s comment, it sounds like the open-sourcing of the connector and the plan to give access to the Supercharger network to other EVs are two separate things, which is my hope.<\/p>\n

Some suggested that Tesla\u2019s opening of its charge connector could replace the plan since Tesla would be technically \u201copening its Supercharger to non-Tesla EVs\u201d as long as they use its connector, which is now the open-source North American Charging Standard.<\/p>\n

And Tesla only needs a single automaker to take it up on the offer for its new Supercharger to get access to the new federal funding that President Biden is talking about in that tweet.<\/p>\n

Right now, I still think Tesla plans to do both, but it\u2019s definitely something to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk told President Biden that Tesla is opening its Supercharger network, but the plan has been unclear since Tesla opened its charge connector. Over the last year, Tesla has been working to open its Supercharger network to non-Tesla electric vehicles. In Europe, Tesla has already opened hundreds of stations in most countries it operate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}