My Tesla brothers in Europe, their map is a good thing. In the US, they showed a bunch of grey dots for SC locations. A dot covered a very large area and led to endless speculation. The European map shows that they are learning - routes make more sense than locations for a number of reasons. Perhaps the biggest for Tesla is that negotiating for rights to place a SuperCharger is very complicated and tipping your hand makes it harder. Also, it makes it clear that longer distance travel is the purpose (not always clear in the US). A lesson from the North American SC build-out - don't expect precise timing. Winter 2013 isn't an exact thing even if the dictionary says otherwise.
Another important point. There will never be SCs for every route. Even every major route. I think it's unreasonable to expect that. In the US and Canada, Tesla (and other EV) owners have banded together to drive installation of good chargers (higher current) than the government backed groups (pathetic chargers). In Canada, Sun Country Highway has installed over 1000 high amp level 2 chargers through private donations. In Washington State, there is a current effort to do the same on a smaller scale. Lots of ad-hoc groups are putting chargers in desired locations. There are groups that are pressuring major resorts, hotels and shopping centers for HAL2 chargers. I hope you are all aren't waiting for Tesla and doing similar things.
One final note, at least the European SC map has routes to all the great wine growing regions. What more do you need? Life is good!
Awesome news!
