Half of Tesla charge points open to other EVs

AUSTRALIA’S best-selling electrical automobile model, Tesla, has opened virtually half of its Supercharger EV charging stations to non-Tesla EVs, encouraging extra drivers to make the transfer into an electrical automobile and helping the journey plans of EV drivers throughout the nation.

Following on from the favored New South Wales-based Tesla Pilot Program, during which 5 Supercharger websites have been made accessible to non-Tesla EVs, Tesla has now prolonged the usage of 30 of its 63 EV charging stations to different manufacturers.

Websites within the ACT (1), New South Wales (11), Queensland (3), South Australia (3), Victoria (10), and Western Australia (2) are actually open (see full record beneath), selling what Tesla says is its pragmatic dedication to the worldwide shift in the direction of sustainable power.

“I believe we do need to emphasise that it’s our objective to assist the arrival of sustainable power, it isn’t to create a walled backyard and use that to bludgeon our rivals, which is typically utilized by some firms,” mentioned Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, on the firm’s 2021 Earnings Name.

Tesla says the step is instrumental in encouraging extra drivers to transition to electrical autos, and that choose Supercharger websites have been seamlessly built-in into the Tesla app, granting non-Tesla EV drivers entry to Tesla’s “superior charging community”.

The Tesla app could also be downloaded for iOS or Android gadgets. Customers want solely obtain the app, create an account, choose ‘Cost Your Non-Tesla’ and discover their nearest Supercharger website. As soon as the automobile is charged, merely faucet ‘Cease Charging’ to finish the session.

Concurrently, Tesla drivers retain all present entry privileges, whereas Tesla actively screens every website to handle potential congestion and collect person suggestions.

Commenting on its Supercharger community, Tesla Australia says it’s dedicated to the reliability of the system which has a claimed world uptime common of 99.95 per cent (based mostly on 2022 figures).

The community is presupposed to be totally powered by renewable sources and provides handy charging with stations positioned “strategically alongside main routes” and “with the aptitude so as to add as much as 275km of vary in simply quarter-hour”.

Tesla Supercharger areas now open to non-Tesla EVs: