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Elon Musk Promises 100 Percent Tesla Supercharger Coverage in Europe Next Year

posted by martyb on Friday December 28 2018, @05:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the power-up! dept.

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Elon Musk promises 100 percent Tesla Supercharger coverage in Europe next year

Entering into the seasonal spirit of giving, Elon Musk has promised a big present for Tesla owners: 100 percent Supercharger coverage in Europe by next year.

[...] While there’s no doubt that Tesla’s charging network has grown quickly in recent years, it’s worth remembering that Musk has a history of over-promising on exact expansion rates. As EV site Electrek notes, Tesla originally wanted to have 18,000 Superchargers up and running by the end of 2018, but currently falls well short of that goal with 11,853 chargers online at the time of publication. (It also missed a similar target in 2017, though by less of a margin.)

[...] Still, you can check out the full expanse of Tesla’s impressive Supercharger network here.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @06:31AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @06:31AM (#779270)

    We are 3 days away from Next Year. Oh, he means by the END of 2019...

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @07:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @07:12AM (#779275)

    It doesn't matter what he means. Elon Musk has a long history of making "promises" of this form "X by date Y" for his ventures and failing to deliver on them. For example, Falcon 9 was "promised" to be launching humans into orbit by 2014. Pretty sure Musk made a lot of similar "promises" for the Tesla model 3 as well which also turned out to be bogus.

    This isn't necessarily a big problem but it also means that there's no reason to believe this date either simply because Elon Musk said it.