Dark-Fx
Well-Known Member
Tesla did have the route that they stated by the end of 2013, but it was pretty much the only route they had going at that point. Completely useless to anyone outside of that small window.There's a lot of revisionist nostalgia built into this statement. Tesla's supercharger network opened with a grand total of 7 stations and added 2 (!!) over the next 6-9 months. Here's a chart, from Wikipedia, of the global count of supercharger stations:
After a full year, Tesla still had just 30 stations. Rivian had 3 open at the end of Q2 2022. They've already opened 3 more. We know of 9 others in some state of construction. We know of 48 others in some state of permitting or contracting. To keep pace with Tesla's network expansion, those 63 known RAN locations would need to open by June 30, 2023, without any other unknown stations opening as well.
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