Tesla is planning to build a new world’s largest Supercharger station, and it might give us a glimpse at the future of electric car charging.
There’s no doubt that Tesla has the best charging network, the Supercharger network, but it still has room to improve.
It’s not even just about improving but evolving with the different needs of the growing fleet of electric vehicles in North America.
We need more stations, with more stalls per station, and we need different configurations to make them accessible to new types of vehicles going electric, like trucks.
Now, we learn about a new Supercharger station that Tesla plans to build in California that could gives an idea of how Tesla plans to evolve the Supercharger network.
The new station is planned for Kern County, California, near the 5 freeway where it meets the 46 highway.
According to the construction permit application (via MarcoRP), there will be over 160 Supercharger stalls at the new station – making it the largest Supercharger in the world: