Tesla is planning a brand new “Supercharger queue” characteristic at choose Supercharger websites in an effort to finish one uncommon challenge: confrontation or confusion concerning who’s subsequent in line.
Whereas it’s an unusual challenge, Supercharger congestion does happen in closely populated areas the place a excessive focus of EVs may cause intensive wait instances at charging piles.
These strains can generally turn into a problem as drivers will, now and again, turn 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.
In consequence, 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 web buyer expertise enchancment for the ~1% instances of a wait time. Wider rollout this yr if suggestions is constructive. We additionally proceed to develop the community 20%+ year-over-year, intently monitoring site-level demand.”
Whereas it’s one thing that does occur, Tesla will fight the problem with two totally different methods in an effort to eradicate it.
The primary technique is the pilot program, which can assist drivers decide the proper order to strategy a plug and get charging. Nonetheless, this doesn’t utterly eradicate the issue, and since some persons are petty, they could really feel that the queue is inaccurate and pull into the spot anyway, inflicting a fair larger delay.
The second technique has been occurring for years: increasing the presence of Superchargers all through.
As Tesla expands its infrastructure, strains and delays at Superchargers will turn into much less frequent. This doesn’t utterly eradicate the problem, although. EVs are nonetheless promoting, and persons are adopting electrical automobiles every single day.
Now that Tesla additionally permits EVs constructed by different producers to entry Supercharging, the problem is technically even larger than ever. It is going to be a continuing battle to construct as many Superchargers as potential to make the issue turn into so uncommon that it’s basically a non-issue.
The queue may even want to speak with autos made by different firms. We requested Tesla about this in response to their put up on X. The corporate has not but answered, but when they do, we’ll replace this text.
It would seemingly by no means be utterly out of the query, although, as fuel station strains nonetheless exist. That is true despite the fact that fuel stations can be found on a large foundation.
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