Tesla is planning a brand new “Supercharger queue” characteristic at choose Supercharger websites in an effort to finish one uncommon subject: confrontation or confusion relating to who’s subsequent in line.
Whereas it’s an unusual subject, Supercharger congestion does happen in closely populated areas the place a excessive focus of EVs could cause intensive wait instances at charging piles.
These strains can typically develop into a difficulty as drivers will, from time to time, develop into combative in the event that they really feel they’ve arrived at a charger earlier than one other proprietor. Individuals slicing 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. Aim is a internet buyer expertise enchancment for the ~1% circumstances of a wait time. Wider rollout this 12 months if suggestions is constructive. We additionally proceed to broaden the community 20%+ year-over-year, carefully 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 get rid of 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 get rid of the issue, and since some persons are petty, they might really feel that the queue is wrong and pull into the spot anyway, inflicting an excellent larger delay.
The second technique has been happening for years: increasing the presence of Superchargers all through.
As Tesla expands its infrastructure, strains and delays at Superchargers will develop into much less frequent. This doesn’t utterly get rid of the difficulty, although. EVs are nonetheless promoting, and persons are adopting electrical vehicles on daily basis.
Now that Tesla additionally permits EVs constructed by different producers to entry Supercharging, the difficulty is technically even larger than ever. It is going to be a relentless battle to construct as many Superchargers as attainable to make the issue develop into so uncommon that it’s basically a non-issue.
The queue may also want to speak with autos made by different firms. We requested Tesla about this in response to their submit on X. The corporate has not but answered, but when they do, we’ll replace this text.
It’s going to probably by no means be utterly out of the query, although, as fuel station strains nonetheless exist. That is true although fuel stations can be found on a large foundation.
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