The Simplicity of Charging Your Tesla Vehicle

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Charging a Tesla at a Supercharger is very simple. You just grab the charger and plugin. Everything else is taken care of.

Charging Your Tesla

It doesn't take much to charge your Tesla vehicle. You simply arrive at a Tesla Supercharger and tap twice on your charge port. Then you plugin in the charger to your charge port. Then you car begins charging. That's it. Credit card and payment information is automatically linked through the Tesla app on the phone.

Charging is going to be an important thing to get right in order for EV adoption to take off and be widespread. It needs to be simple and seamless to charge your EV. If it's not, adoption will be slower.

Fortunately, Tesla makes it very simple with its Supercharger network. As long as there is an open stall, you simply plugin in and wait for the charging to complete. If you have a long range or performance vehicle, you generally will charge between 20% to 80%. If you have a Model 3 RWD or an LFP battery vehicle, you can charge to 100% regularly.

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Future of Superchargers and Charging

There are many charging companies starting to appear in order to try and grab a share of the world-wide charging market. Tesla is currently well in the lead with its Supercharger network, but other charging networks are going to need to succeed as well.

There are ChargePoint chargers I can use near my condo where I live and those work very well and are reliable. They are level 2 chargers, which means I will charge at a rate of about 25 miles per hour, meaning it's about 10 hours if I want a full charge on my Model 3 RWD.

There are chargers at the Harmon's grocery store nearby as wel and they are free just like the ChargePoint chargers. However, they aren't as reliable. There is a JuiceBar charger and a Tellus level 3 CCS charger. The Tellus charger is often down - about 50% of the time it seems like, but is nice when it's available as it is also free.

There is also a ChAdeMO charger, but I have never tried to use that or get an adapter for it. One thing that is confusing about EV charging is all the different types of plugs. With a gasoline car, you just put a handle in your gas opening and do it that way.

What do you think about the simplicity of Tesla's charging network? Will it continue to be the biggest in the world?

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Jeremy Johnson is a Tesla investor and supporter. He first invested in Tesla in 2017 after years of following Elon Musk and admiring his work ethic and intelligence. Since then, he's become a Tesla bull, covering anything about Tesla he can find, while also dabbling in other electric vehicle companies. Jeremy covers Tesla developments at Torque News. You can follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn to stay in touch and follow his Tesla news coverage on Torque News.

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