Tesla has begun trials of quicker charging speeds at choose Supercharger stations, as highlighted by one proprietor and later confirmed by an engineer from the corporate over the weekend.
On Sunday night, X consumer TesLatino was charging his Cybertruck at a Supercharger station in Los Gatos, California, when he observed that it was charging at a prime pace of 323kW, or a lot increased than the standard 250kW choices. Whereas the station included V4 charging posts, the ability cupboard nonetheless included specs for V3 chargers, so it was unclear if this was merely a glitch, or if it was certainly testing from Tesla.
Credit score: Teslatino | X
Credit score: Teslatino | X
Teslatino additionally famous that the charging pace stayed above 300kW for a couple of minute, including that the charger pushed round 900 amps.
Just a bit over an hour later, Cybertruck Lead Engineer Wes Morrill posted that Tesla was operating trials on just a few completely different “V3+ stations,” referring to stations with a V3 cupboard and V4 charging posts. He went on to say that the circumstance was not a bug, however that the function hadn’t but been deployed to all stations with this {hardware} both.
Working a trial on just a few completely different V3+ stations (V3 cupboard + V4 cost put up). This isn’t a bug, however it’s additionally not rolled out to all {hardware} succesful stations. I assume since @TesLatino has visited 97% of all North America supercharger places he was certain to seek out one.
— Wes (@wmorrill3) August 5, 2024
Tesla has been rolling out its up to date V4 chargers in North America and Europe markets all through this and final yr, and so they’re anticipated to ultimately provide charging at speeds of over 250kW. Nevertheless, Tesla hasn’t but deployed upgraded energy cupboards to accommodate extra speeds, so that they’ve largely remained restricted to round 250kW.
This, nevertheless, appears to be the start of trials earlier than Tesla rolls the function extra broadly, and earlier than the corporate begins rolling out upgraded cupboards for V4 chargers.
To make certain, most of Tesla’s automobiles are additionally restricted to roughly 250kW charging speeds, excluding the Cybertruck and the newest Mannequin Y models.
In March, one Cybertruck reached a peak charging pace of over 327kW utilizing a NxuOne charging station, with a peak present of 462 amps. The occasion marked the outperformance of a earlier report, which was held by a Cybertruck that had managed to achieve a 253kW charging pace, simply over that supplied by Tesla’s V3 Superchargers.
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