Too many vehicles sold: Is Tesla lagging behind in supercharger expansion?

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Tesla has been building its Supercharger network since 2012
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“We have reached a new milestone,” electric car maker Tesla recently announced on Twitter on the US company’s China account. “The 35,000th Supercharger was installed in Wuhan, China. Tesla has the largest fast-charging network in the world,” the tweet continued.

The opening of the 35,000. Superchargers is a great success for the electric car manufacturer, as recently as November last year the number of superchargers was 25,000. At that time, it took Tesla six months to install 5,000 new charging stations, now it has already installed 10,000 in around seven months. The expansion of the Supercharger network is picking up speed and the pace is steadily increasing. But when it comes to the number of Tesla vehicles sold, the company appears to be stepping on the gas, leading to a growing imbalance between the number of Tesla vehicles on the road and the charging stations available.

Is the expansion of the supercharger lagging?

The industry portal InsideEVs has been scrutinizing the development of supercharger expansion for some time and has come to the conclusion that, according to the latest data, sales figures are increasing faster than the establishment of new charging stations. The network of superchargers continues to grow, but not as fast as the number of Teslas sold.

At the end of the first quarter, a total of 2.64 million Teslas were on the roads, the number of supercharger stations was 3,724, and the number of individual connections totaled 33,657. This means that there are an average of 78.6 Tesla vehicles per Supercharger location and 711 Teslas per Supercharger port, of which there are around ten at each location. According to InsideEVs, these numbers are significantly higher than they were a few years ago. The average ratio of cars per station has more than doubled compared to the first quarter of 2018, and the number of individual connections has almost tripled.

So even as Tesla continues to expand its Supercharger network, the rapid increase in sales means that Tesla drivers now have proportionately fewer charging options than they did about four years ago. The probability that no charging connections are available when needed has increased.

The fact that electric vehicles have increasingly longer ranges, charging times are tending to be shorter and more and more third-party providers are making charging structures available can only partially compensate for this problem, according to the industry portal.

Is Tesla alienating its own customers?

Meanwhile, the electric car manufacturer is sticking to its plans to open up its network to electric vehicles from other manufacturers. This is expected to lead to even greater use of the existing Supercharger network and could cause resentment among Tesla customers. In the past, the best-developed charging network in the US was a reason for many electric car buyers to choose a vehicle from Tesla. Originally, Tesla customers were even allowed to charge their EVs for free, but this option is no longer available for new car buyers.

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