Tesla is planning a brand new “Supercharger queue” characteristic at choose Supercharger websites in an effort to finish one uncommon difficulty: confrontation or confusion concerning 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 intensive wait instances at charging piles.
These traces can generally grow to be a difficulty as drivers will, now and again, grow to be combative in the event that they really feel they’ve arrived at a charger earlier than one other proprietor. Folks reducing in line is one thing that may happen, particularly at busy Superchargers.
Because of this, Tesla has confirmed that it’ll 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 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 strategy a plug and get charging. Nevertheless, this doesn’t utterly eradicate the issue, and since some persons are petty, they could really feel that the queue is wrong and pull into the spot anyway, inflicting an excellent larger 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 grow to be much less frequent. This doesn’t utterly eradicate the difficulty, although. EVs are nonetheless promoting, and persons are adopting electrical vehicles daily.
Now that Tesla additionally permits EVs constructed by different producers to entry Supercharging, the difficulty is technically even larger than ever. It will likely be a relentless battle to construct as many Superchargers as doable to make the issue grow to be so uncommon that it’s primarily a non-issue.
The queue will even want to speak with automobiles made by different firms. 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 regardless that fuel stations can be found on an enormous foundation.
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