Tesla reveals Q4 Supercharger winners, opens next voting round

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Tesla has revealed the latest locations to win its Supercharger voting round for the final quarter of the year, along with opening votes for the voting round.

The company’s charging account posted about the news on X, noting that its winners for the Q4 Supercharger voting round had been named and added to the company’s website. Tesla has also opened its latest three-month round of voting, and you can cast your vote on previously proposed sites on the company’s website here.

The top-voted site in Q4 was in Warsaw, Poland, along with a handful of others that are now indicated on Tesla’s Find Us page with a gold trophy icon and the term “in development” for said sites. Tesla announced its Q3 Supercharger voting round winners in September, after initially launching these vote cycles in 2022.

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Tesla Supercharger voting winners in the U.S. for Q4 2024

  • Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.
  • Clermont, Florida, U.S.
  • Taos, New Mexico, U.S.
  • Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S.
  • Cody, Wyoming, U.S.

Tesla Supercharger voting winners in Canada for Q4 2024

  • Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada
  • Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
  • Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
  • Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada

Tesla Supercharger voting winners in Europe for Q4 2024

  • Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • Liberec, Czech Republic
  • Taranto, Italy
  • Warsaw South, Poland

Tesla Supercharger voting winners in Asia-Pacific for Q4 2024

  • Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia
  • Hakuba Village, Japan
  • Gwacheon, Seoul, South Korea

Tesla’s Supercharger improvements rolling out, NACS access

Tesla has been rolling out improvements to the Supercharger network throughout this year, and North American Charging Director Max de Zegher recently outlined some of the company’s specific goals in doing so as access rolls out to non-Tesla electric vehicles (EVs). These include making stall availability even more accurate, boosting the number of long Supercharging cables, modifying stations to help non-Tesla EVs avoid blocking stalls, and encouraging manufacturers to put their charging ports on the rear left or front right of their upcoming vehicles.

On Monday, Tesla and Hyundai also announced that the 2025 Ioniq 5 will become the first EV to be able to charge at the Superchargers with a native NACS charging port, while the company’s existing vehicles with the CCS charger are set to get an adapter in early 2025. Owners of Nissan’s Ariya EV also gained access to the charging network earlier this month, as Tesla slowly opens its chargers to automakers across the industry.

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More Tesla Model Y “Juniper” prototypes sighted amid reports of upcoming production

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More sightings of the Tesla Model Y “Juniper” were recently reported on social media. The sightings come amidst reports that Tesla China is preparing for the initial production of an updated version of the all-electric crossover. 

The sighting:

  • The recent Model Y “Juniper” prototype sighting was reported in California. 
  • Similar to past sightings, the vehicle was spotted in the wild, and it featured a front and rear end that were completely camouflaged.
  • The apparent Model Y “Juniper” prototype was also fitted with heavily tinted windows.

Tesla China reports:

  • A report from LatePost in China claimed that the upgraded Tesla Model Y would start production in January 2025.
  • LatePost’s report suggested that the Model Y’s upcoming upgrade will be quite similar to the Model 3 Highland, which included updates to the all-electric sedan’s exterior, interior, battery, and powertrain.
  • The report also claimed that Tesla China will start producing a six-seat version of the updated Model Y in Q4 2025.
  • Previous leaked images of the alleged Model Y “Juniper” hinted at a red light bar in the vehicle’s rear.
  • Other rumored features for the Model Y “Juniper” include a grille-less front, a 15.4-inch tilting infotainment system, and newly developed fourth-generation drive units.

The Model Y in context: 

  • The Model Y is Tesla’s best-selling vehicle, and in 2023, it became the world’s best-selling car by volume.
  • An upgrade to the Model Y will likely prove popular among consumers considering that the vehicle is still selling well today. This is despite the Model Y still sporting an older design compared to its sedan sibling, the Model 3.

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Tesla launches unique charging solution for increased holiday travel

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Tesla has started deploying a unique charging solution for heavily driven U.S. highway corridors, utilizing its grid-scale energy storage units to boost the number of stations available ahead of an expected bump in travel for the holidays.

In order to accommodate the increase in travel, Tesla has launched four Megapack Chargers in heavily traveled areas of the U.S., offering a mobile Megapack unit along with pre-fabricated Supercharger units. These mobile chargers have been deployed in Bakersfield, California, Primm, Nevada, El Centro, California, and Cambridge, Ohio, and can now be seen on Tesla’s Supercharger map.

Credit: Tesla Charging | X

Credit: Tesla Charging | X

Credit: Tesla Charging | X

Credit: Tesla Charging | X

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While the Bakersfield and Primm mobile charger locations appear to have been added to existing Superchargers, the El Centro and Cambridge sites seem to be standalone sites with eight and 10 stalls, respectively, according to Tesla’s website. The mobile units also seem to offer up to 150kW charging speeds, as detailed on the listings for the latter two chargers.

Tesla has deployed similar mobile Superchargers in the past, recently doing so in October in areas of Florida hit by Hurricane Milton. Other mobile chargers have been spotted as far back as 2019, though the latest units appear to also have benefitted from Tesla’s increasing deployment of pre-fabricated Supercharger units, which the company builds at its Gigafactory in Buffalo, New York.

You can see a diagram of the pre-fab Superchargers below, as shared in recent weeks by Tesla’s North America Director of Charging Max de Zegher. On the left, you can see all the materials needed to build a traditional Supercharging station with four stalls, including the stalls themselves, the charging cabinet, and all the structural items needed. On the right, you’ll see Tesla’s pre-fabricated units, which streamline the installation process and feature a built-in cabinet, stalls, and structure.

Credit: Max de Zegher | X

Tesla reached 60,000 Supercharger stalls worldwide in October, and the company is also readying its rollout of the V4 Supercharging cabinet in 2025, which will enable charging speeds of up to 500 kW for the Cybertruck and up to 1.2 MW for the electric Semi.

The company has also been aiming to make improvements to the existing Supercharger network, with goals to build more stations with pull-through, towing-friendly stalls, and to increase the length of charging cables to help accommodate wider access to the chargers for non-Tesla electric vehicles (EVs).

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