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American automotive company, Tesla unveiled its first V3 Supercharger at its Fremont, California factory and the company is already making progress on the first concentrated build-out of the third generation of its fast-charging stations.
The new V3 chargers are capable of charging some Model 3s at rates of up to 250kW, making it possible to gain 75 miles of range in just five minutes, making it more convenient than ever.
At the time being, the company has opened just a few other V3 Supercharging stations beyond the original one at the Fremont plant.
This news was launched as Tesla celebrated its seven-year anniversary of the first Supercharger stations. Since the first fast chargers back in 2012, Tesla has gone on to build out one of the biggest networks of EV chargers in the world with 14,081 Superchargers across 1,604 stations in 36 countries.
Tesla told The Verge online multimedia platform that it’s seen more than 30 million charging sessions on its fast chargers since the first one was debuted in 2012.
The company says its Supercharger network handles an average of 64,000 sessions per day and doles out a total of about 2.25GWh of energy per day.
It’s vehicles, depending on the model, have battery capacities that range between 50kWh to 100kWh.
The energy company has outpaced other charging networks across the last seven years. In 2012, when it announced the first Supercharger, it promised the ability to drive “anywhere in the country on pure sunlight for free.” It also said that it wants to outfit Superchargers with solar panels from SolarCity with the goal of generating more energy from the sun over the course of a year resulting in a slight net positive transfer of sunlight generated power back to the electricity grid.”
Only about six of the stations were hooked up to a solar panel setup in 2017 and Tesla hasn’t shown off a fully off-grid Supercharger setup. There are a few more stations with solar panels, but Tesla still is a long way off from fulfilling the picture that CEO Elon Musk painted back in 2012.
What Tesla does excel in is that it offers reliable coverage and provides as much juice as possible in a short amount of time.
