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Tesla Accelerates Plan for Fast-Charger Network
California-based Tesla Motors Inc. says it will speed up plans to create a network of quick-charge facilities for its electric car customers that strings along both U.S. coasts and runs from Los Angeles to New York.
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California-based Tesla Motors Inc. says it will speed up plans to create a network of quick-charge facilities for its electric car customers that strings along both U.S. coasts and runs from Los Angeles to New York.
Last autumn the company opened six solar-powered "Supercharger" stations in California and predicted more than 100 would be in operation worldwide by 2015. The facilities, which provide no-fee power to owners of Tesla Model S electric sedans, cannot be used by other EV owners.
Now the company says it will have enough Supercharger stations in operation by this time next year to serve most of the population of Canada and the U.S. Tesla remains coy about technical details but says the direct-current facilities need only about 20 minutes to pump enough power into a Model S to drive the car about 150 miles.
Most of Tesla's experimental Supercharger facilities currently are in California. The company says it will add an unspecified number of stations in the Pacific Northwest, Texas, Florida and the Midwest by the end of June.
By year-end Tesla also expects to open an unspecified number of stations in Georgia and the Carolinas and in Canada between Ottawa and Montreal.
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