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Tesla To Take Superchargers Off Electricity Grid
Tesla will take superchargers off electricity grid and replace it with solar or battery power, Elon Musk tweeted.
Tesla wants its extensive Supercharger network to be powered by solar or batteries and eventually disconnecting from the electric grid, which is still mostly powered by natural gas and coal.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't one to take criticism easily, especially when it's directed at his main company's core value: environmentalism. And that's the reason he revealed a potentially important piece of information in response to a tweet questioning the cleanliness of Tesla vehicles.
Musk tweeted that Tesla is presently installing solar panels and batteries at its Supercharger stations as part of that purpose. "All Superchargers are being converted to solar/ battery power. Over time, almost all will disconnect from the electricity grid," Musk tweeted.
The company's Supercharger network, which is set to double in number by the end of 2017, can restore 170 miles (274km) of range in just 30 minutes, making it one of Tesla's biggest customer advantage.
Musk's response came after a Twitter user's criticism that dirty energy powers Tesla's Superchargers. According to the Washington Post, natural gas presently powers 34 percent of the US' electricity, succeeded by coal and nuclear power.
Elon Musk is no stranger to solar power, and he has always upheld its merits, but that didn't change the fact Tesla vehicles are powered from the grid, which charges the supercharger stations, and the company has no control over how that electricity was generated.
Musk declined to give a timeline for when solar or battery will power the Superchargers, and we expect it is still a few years away from the moment.
Probably we will begin to see more solar products at Tesla's plants once the company commences manufacturing its solar panels with Panasonic at Gigafactory 2.
