Especially knowing that the industry has adopted nacs we’re going to see lots more cars at superchargers.
This sentiment is common, but the numbers don’t pencil out. Even if all of the other manufacturers’ EVs were already NACS compatible today, that wouldn’t mean a whole lot in terms of Supercharger congestion. Tesla owners would hardly notice and consider it something of a novelty seeing non-Teslas at the chargers.
The real driver of current and future Supercharger congestion is Tesla sales because they sell so many EVs in the US. Given the recent EV rug-pulls from the other manufacturers, that situation is not changing any time soon.
This sentiment is common, but the numbers don’t pencil out. Even if all of the other manufacturers’ EVs were already NACS compatible today, that wouldn’t mean a whole lot in terms of Supercharger congestion. Tesla owners would hardly notice and consider it something of a novelty seeing non-Teslas at the chargers.
The real driver of current and future Supercharger congestion is Tesla sales because they sell so many EVs in the US. Given the recent EV rug-pulls from the other manufacturers, that situation is not changing any time soon.
So yes, Tesla sales keep growing and the Superchargers network needs to grow to keep pace. But the good news is that they’re opening new (and often large) Superchargers in the US with terrific regularity such as the 44-stall station in Redding, California that was announced just yesterday.