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Wiki UK and Ireland Supercharger Site News
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Buckminster
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The next round of Supercharger Voting is open.
There are two locations in the UK. One of them is Hull. Ooops. Voting for Hull is perhaps pointless. (see previous post)
I also voted for Shelby Montana near the intersection of Route 2 and I-15.
Open for suggestions for the other 3 votes.
There are two locations in the UK. One of them is Hull. Ooops. Voting for Hull is perhaps pointless. (see previous post)
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I also voted for Shelby Montana near the intersection of Route 2 and I-15.
Open for suggestions for the other 3 votes.
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Buckminster
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I went for Brittany on the basis I might go there a few times in my lifetime...
I put an hour of my time in suggesting locations last cycle? Will they still be in the system for a future cycle. Spent another 30mins on the new cycle today. I flagged them as needing them to get to my destination rather than the other options. I added three in Cotswolds...
Buckminster
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Welcome break site, so no new superchargers will be installed there.
Interesting concept of others using superchargers and just rebranding them...
Jason71
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BP has to buy it somewhere. Tesla stuff is good. And cheap possibly. So if they have spare capacity to make and will sell then it makes perfect sense. Probably not the last such deal we will see.
Buckminster
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I would rather Tesla hadn’t sold themselves short by selling them at cost plus. No branding etc.
Anyway, I’m not complaining because it could be a nice little earner.
Anyway, I’m not complaining because it could be a nice little earner.
Of course, and site-level power sharing is absolutely the right way to go. But it's also easy to imagine that there may be situations where an average of 83kW per stall is less than ideal for a busy motorway site - hence why we may see sites with a lower than 4:1 stall-to-cabinet ratio.
I have been pondering this deal. Can't imagine BP want to nerf the Tesla functionality, so hopefully it will appear in the Tesla Navigation as a generic Supercharger, the car battery will pre-heat on the way there, the seamless Tesla payment system will work (even though at BP prices).
Buckminster
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This is not the expectation of the community. BP ecosystem only although it will show as an alternative on SC map as they all do but only in car so very few Teslas will use them.
Surely it would just show in the map like any other non tesla charger. The nav would effectively ignore it unless you specifically navigated there as it’s not a Tesla charger.
JupiterMan
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Could it be that Tesla would charge BP more for those rebranded chargers to appear as Superchargers in the nav, as that would drive significant traffic to them and have potential value?
Cant imagine Tesla would give this away for free - Perhaps BP do not want to pay for this (yet)?
Also the question of maintenance comes up. That would be another service that Tesla could charge for, and we don't know who will be responsible for these BP branded chargers, whether BP will pay Tesla for upkeep or if BP will do this themselves. Another potential revenue stream.
Cant imagine Tesla would give this away for free - Perhaps BP do not want to pay for this (yet)?
Also the question of maintenance comes up. That would be another service that Tesla could charge for, and we don't know who will be responsible for these BP branded chargers, whether BP will pay Tesla for upkeep or if BP will do this themselves. Another potential revenue stream.
how would this work, when SC price is at least 30% less than BP?
JupiterMan
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The Tesla stalls design do seem to be less suited to servicing the wide variety of charging port layouts and also voltages that the EV market is now producing. (See Audi/Porsche parked perpendicular to bays, others taking two bays, certain MG requiring firmware updates, 400v vs 800v support etc.)
Not sure they’d have been my first choice of OEM supplier.
Jason71
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Money Talks. Who knows what they sold them for but there is evidence that they can deploy a set of chargers for a fraction of what others can. There was a famous case in Texas where most people were bidding in the order of $100K per charger and Tesla bid more like $20K. If true, even if they charge a huge markup they might be able to still save BP a fortune.
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