I saw that rendering yesterday, what an incredible opportunity to build out the "gas" stations of the future. The thing with the superchargers is they're mainly used for traveling not so much day to day charging. There was some analyst who put out a report that it would cost $8B for Tesla to make superchargers as accessible as gas stations are currently, every 4 min apart. Here's a link

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The big thing I think that analyst missed is, tesla doesn't need to bc every house is a gas station in that sense and if he did an analysis on what it cost to put a gas station at every house it would be trillions of dollars with underground storage tanks and pumps involved.

Charging is slow at home, yes, but if you plug it in overnight its ready by morning. The average person can go a full day on 200+ miles, key word average person, yes some people need more. The supercharger network is perfectly spaced out and the navigation system guides you to the supercharger and tells you how many are free before you arrive. You stop and recharge in 30-40 minutes, go use the restroom, eat at a local restaurant near the charger and return. Again thats now in 2017, surely by 2027 it wont take 30 min to charge the battery. I see them at whole foods when I shop too, but those are different chargers, not from tesla, but I was told they're still free, not sure if thats true.

Pretty damn cool to me that you can drive all over the country free of charge.

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Posted by Old Money

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:14 pm to dabigfella

I was just about to post that I'm waiting for the day they decide to set up shop like a gas station and have a few in every city. I have no doubt it will happen. Just in the area my parents live (Miami), within a 30 min radius they're building 4 new super chargers to make that idea more of a reality.

You're right on the at home charging, who wants to go to the gas station anymore? And as it currently stands, you can travel just about anywhere within the US with a Tesla (it just takes a bit longer due to charging, but the car plans the whole route out for you with charge points and estimated battery life) I also like how the superchargers tend to have food and hotels around, it's an awesome program

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I see them at whole foods when I shop too, but those are different chargers, not from tesla, but I was told they're still free, not sure if thats true.

In Indianapolis there are a lot of EV charging points I see Tesla's at all the time, it's pretty awesome. A lot are free but many cost a few bucks at most. better than the whatever amount I pay with my Jeep, I stopped looking