Tesla Supercharger

Life With 2013 Tesla Model S: Getting Supercharged In Winter
David Noland March 4, 2013

As the brand-new owner of a 60-kWh Tesla Model S, I was eager to try out a Supercharger, the ultrafast 90-kilowatt DC fast-charging stations that Tesla is establishing along Interstate highways across the country. Model S owners--and nobody else--will be able to plug in and grab up to 150 miles of extra range in 30 minutes, about the time it takes to empty their bladders and then eat a fast-food meal and/or check their mobile devices. Astonishingly, the Superchargers are free for Model S owners. So far, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has installed five Superchargers in California and two along I-95...
Tesla Model S Owners Crowdsource Trip To Counter NY Times Report
It's been a week of Tesla Model S hullabaloo, centered around last Sunday's critical New York Times road test, Stalled Out on Tesla's Electric Highway. Now a set of defiant Tesla Model S owners are setting out to prove Times reporter John Broder wrong. They will replicate his trip from Maryland to...
John Voelcker February 15, 2013
Tesla's Elon Musk & NY Times: Disturbing Discrepancies On Model S Range Reporting
Golly. Turns out nothing ignites the Internet quite like a rapid-fire online spat between Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and The New York Times, the Grey Lady of establishment journalism. Like many such controversies, common ground turns out to be easier to find than you might think: It's a fact that...
John Voelcker February 14, 2013

Tesla Supercharger Network Expands Into East Coast
The 2013 Tesla Model S comes with one feature no other electric car can match: free quick-charging at an expanding network of Supercharger stations, usable only by Tesla owners. Following its October launch between the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, the network now includes a station along...
John Voelcker December 24, 2012
Tesla Free Supercharger Network Now Officially Open, Ready To Use
Just under a month ago, Tesla Motors held a gala event at its Hawthorne, California design studio to mark the switching on of its proprietary Supercharger rapid charging network. On Friday, Tesla held official ribbon cutting ceremonies at four of its six initial Supercharger locations, making them...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield October 22, 2012
Free Supercharging For 60-kWh Tesla Model S: How A Lucky Few Got It
It looks like Tesla may just have done it again. Compared to Nissan's challenged public responses to hot-weather range-loss problems in its Leaf electric car, a recent move by Tesla to offer free Supercharging to early buyers of the 60-kWh version of its 2012 Model S looks like brilliant customer...
David Noland October 5, 2012
Tesla’s Supercharger Network: How It Works In The Real World
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield October 2, 2012

Last week, Tesla Motors [NADAQ: TSLA] officially switched on the first six of its planned network of Supercharger charging stations. Designed to offer current -- and future -- Tesla models the ability to recharge at a rate of around 150 miles in just 30 minutes, Tesla’s Superchargers are the fastest electric car charging stations in the U.S. But what’s it like using the Tesla Supercharger network? And can you really travel hundreds of miles in a single day using the network? With only six charging stations at his disposal, The New York Times’ Brad Berman was among the first...
Tesla’s First Electric-Car 'Supercharger' Stations Now Live
Last October, at the official launch of the 2012 Tesla Model S, we told you about Tesla’s plans to build a network of “Superchargers”: fast-charging stations that could add up to 150 miles of range to a Model S in 30 minutes. Yesterday, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] launched its...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield September 25, 2012

Tesla Will Webcast Supercharger Quick-Charge Unveiling Tonight
It all began with a late-night tweet two weeks ago by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. In it, he announced that Tesla would unveil its much-discussed Supercharger network of dedicated quick-charging stations--usable only by 2012 Tesla Model S drivers--on September 24. Well, today's the day. And this...
John Voelcker September 24, 2012