Electric vehicle owners worried about stalling before the next charge can now breathe a little easier: The Tesla Supercharger network has resumed its expansion over the past three months, after mass layoffs at Tesla earlier this year led to a decline in new charging stations .
According to the company's official Tesla Charging account
Tesla also delivered 1.4 terawatt hours (TWh) of energy in the third quarter, representing 27% year-over-year growth. According to the Tesla Charging account, the amount of energy delivered saved Tesla owners over 150 million gallons of gasoline, offsetting more than 3 billion pounds of CO2.
According to the website Supercharge.info, which relies on user contributions to track the opening of new stands, there were 2,677 Supercharger stations in North America at the end of September, 125 more than at the end of the third quarter.
However, the addition of new stands comes amid a 31% decline in the second quarter after a massive wave of layoffs at the company removed 500 employees from the Supercharger team in April.
The third-quarter expansion should still help ease the concerns of Tesla and non-Tesla electric vehicle (EV) owners as EV makers line up in droves to use the Supercharger network.
In September, General Motors' electric vehicles manufactured by Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac joined the growing list of vehicles that have adopted Tesla's North American Charging Standard (NACS). The network already enables access to electric vehicles from Ford, Rivian, Honda and Volvo via adapters. Companies such as Nissan, Hyundai, Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Volvo and Jaguar have also signed agreements to provide access from 2025.
Tesla's map of superchargers in the US shows that they are concentrated in major cities and along east-west transit corridors.
According to Tesla, a Supercharger can achieve a range of up to 200 miles in 15 minutes.
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