Tesla adding charging stations - that are not theirs.

[Garlan Garner]

Tesla is starting to add third-party charging stations to its in-car navigation - Electrek

Well well......looks like there are going to be a TON more places to charge per our maps.

albeit - not quickly - but.....who's complaining?


Let me answer my own question if you don't mind.

Answer: Every other EV vendor is complaining because they can't reverse this and add Tesla's Superchargers to their map.


Good on Tesla.

 

[Silicon Desert]

I thought the title was a little misleading, or I just assumed something else. Looks like you mean Tesla SHOWING 3rd party chargers on map.

 

[mbdionio]

click bait

this is good as we dont have to pull the info from plugshare.

 

[Runt8]

I thought the title was a little misleading, or I just assumed something else. Looks like you mean Tesla SHOWING 3rd party chargers on map.

You mean Tesla isn't going to steal the wall connector out of my garage and stick it outside the Costco?

 

[Kevy Baby]

You mean Tesla isn't going to steal the wall connector out of my garage and stick it outside the Costco?

Oh, no: they're still gonna do that...

 

[Jeeves]

Tesla is starting to add third-party charging stations to its in-car navigation - Electrek
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Good on Tesla.

Would love to know whether or not preconditioning is triggered when you navigate to a non-Tesla charger.

 

[Garlan Garner]

Would love to know whether or not preconditioning is triggered when you navigate to a non-Tesla charger.

Good question. I'm going with no - since it doesn't even trigger with Tesla destination chargers.

 

[Knightshade]

In case anybody didn't read the link BTW- this is only in Europe at the moment. Where the car already has a CCS port (or for older cars, at least an available CCS adapter).


Speculation in the link is that it'll maybe start happening in the US once evGo gets around to rolling out more chargers with a tesla handle on the end (right now they're only in SF)

 

[rglore]

Good question. I'm going with no - since it doesn't even trigger with Tesla destination chargers.

Doesn't need to since they are level 2.

 

[raptor5244]

And can you see availability for the 3rd party charging stations? It would be a real joy to get routed to a single destination charger with a car that will be plugged in for the next 3 hours.

 

[Rocky_H]

In case anybody didn't read the link BTW- this is only in Europe at the moment. Where the car already has a CCS port (or for older cars, at least an available CCS adapter).


Speculation in the link is that it'll maybe start happening in the US once evGo gets around to rolling out more chargers with a tesla handle on the end (right now they're only in SF)

This is absolutely the main factor of why this would only be for Europe for quite a while. They can send people to those other charging stations, knowing the owners will be able to plug in and use them because of that plug compatibility with the CCS standard. But they definitely won't do that in the U.S., where there is no way to use CCS and most owners don't have a CHAdeMO adapter. So can you imagine the $#%tstorm of negative publicity if people get navigated on a route to a charger they can't even use?

 

[Kevy Baby]

And can you see availability for the 3rd party charging stations? It would be a real joy to get routed to a single destination charger with a car that will be plugged in for the next 3 hours.

Yeah, I see this as a nagging problem we're (collectively) going to be fighting for a while unfortunately.

 

[raptor5244]

Yeah, I see this as a nagging problem we're (collectively) going to be fighting for a while unfortunately.

Yeah, if I couldn’t charge at home I would not definitely not own an EV yet.