Tesla is planning a brand new “Supercharger queue” function at choose Supercharger websites in an effort to finish one uncommon difficulty: confrontation or confusion relating to who’s subsequent in line.
Whereas it’s an unusual difficulty, Supercharger congestion does happen in closely populated areas the place a excessive focus of EVs could cause in depth wait occasions at charging piles.
These traces can generally change into a problem as drivers will, once in a while, change into combative in the event that they really feel they’ve arrived at a charger earlier than one other proprietor. Folks chopping in line is one thing that may happen, particularly at busy Superchargers.
Because of this, Tesla has confirmed that it’s going to roll out a brand new “Digital queuing pilot” program beginning in Q2 at choose Superchargers:
“Digital queuing pilots beginning in Q2 at choose websites. Objective is a internet buyer expertise enchancment for the ~1% circumstances of a wait time. Wider rollout this yr if suggestions is constructive. We additionally proceed to broaden the community 20%+ year-over-year, intently monitoring site-level demand.”
Whereas it’s one thing that does occur, Tesla will fight the difficulty with two completely different methods in an effort to eradicate it.
The primary technique is the pilot program, which can assist drivers decide the proper order to method a plug and get charging. Nevertheless, this doesn’t utterly eradicate the issue, and since some persons are petty, they might really feel that the queue is wrong and pull into the spot anyway, inflicting a good greater delay.
The second technique has been occurring for years: increasing the presence of Superchargers all through.
As Tesla expands its infrastructure, traces and delays at Superchargers will change into much less frequent. This doesn’t utterly eradicate the difficulty, although. EVs are nonetheless promoting, and persons are adopting electrical automobiles on daily basis.
Now that Tesla additionally permits EVs constructed by different producers to entry Supercharging, the difficulty is technically even greater than ever. It is going to be a relentless battle to construct as many Superchargers as potential to make the issue change into so uncommon that it’s primarily a non-issue.
The queue may also want to speak with automobiles made by different corporations. We requested Tesla about this in response to their publish on X. The corporate has not but answered, but when they do, we’ll replace this text.
It is going to seemingly by no means be utterly out of the query, although, as fuel station traces nonetheless exist. That is true though fuel stations can be found on an enormous foundation.
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