There's definitely going to be some delay I'd guess at this point. They've got enough superchargers to make most travel possible right now, so the incentive to continue building more is slowing from many perspectives.
We have to keep in mind that the superchargers are in fact a marketing expense. There is little chance they can turn any kind of profit on superchargers given their high initial build costs and so-far reasonable usage costs, unless they go the way of other charging networks and charge prices that are on-par with or sometimes even more than gasoline costs per mile.
Eventually this will move out of the marketing budget and have to be something that at least breaks even for them... so, higher costs for us at some point. When that will happen, who knows, but it seems likely to happen.
I'm glad the network exists, and so far it's been useful for my long distance travel a few times per year... but I'm not holding my breath on getting any major expansions along the areas I personally frequent. It's far less expensive for Tesla to deal with a few people complaining about waiting every now and again than it is to build more half-million dollar installations to cover that top few% of usage.
We have to keep in mind that the superchargers are in fact a marketing expense. There is little chance they can turn any kind of profit on superchargers given their high initial build costs and so-far reasonable usage costs, unless they go the way of other charging networks and charge prices that are on-par with or sometimes even more than gasoline costs per mile.
Eventually this will move out of the marketing budget and have to be something that at least breaks even for them... so, higher costs for us at some point. When that will happen, who knows, but it seems likely to happen.
I'm glad the network exists, and so far it's been useful for my long distance travel a few times per year... but I'm not holding my breath on getting any major expansions along the areas I personally frequent. It's far less expensive for Tesla to deal with a few people complaining about waiting every now and again than it is to build more half-million dollar installations to cover that top few% of usage.