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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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Friday December 28 2018, @05:26AM (3 children)
The solution to the transport problem is not electric bombs^H^H^H^H^Hvehicles, it's travelling less, or travelling more efficiently - on mass transit. The glory days are long over, scumbags can fly, we've reached peak travel.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @05:33AM (2 children)
"The solution to the transport problem is not electric bombs^H^H^H^H^Hvehicles, it's travelling less, or travelling more efficiently - on mass transit."
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A large percentage of the US population lives in rural areas where mass transit will never happen.
Lucky for the US, idiots like you will never be in a position to make or enforce policy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @10:19PM
Hardly anybody RTFA. Most people read the summary. You, you special little snowflake, you didn't even read the fucking headline.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:26PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday December 28 2018, @05:58AM (3 children)
My understanding would be that you can go from any point of Europe to any other point in Europe with your Tesla without charging on the mains. In other words, you're never more than your car's range away from a charging station.
Well, looking at the map, for instance it's pretty clear you won't make it to northernmost point of Finland without taking a circuitous route through Sweden and Norway (which is not in Europe, incidentally). So yeah, technically there will be 100% coverage, but in some cases only if you're willing to hop from charger to charger on an inconvenient route.
Still, it's awesome that it's finally possible to contemplate using an electric car almost as easily as a gasoline-powered car.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday December 28 2018, @06:32AM (1 child)
Please do try to learn some geography before posting about it.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday December 28 2018, @08:48PM
Most of developed Russia is in Europe as well; all the way to Ural mountains.
On the other hand, he included Kiev. Bold prediction indeed...
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @06:39AM
Norway is (in) Europe. But Norway is not part of the European Union. Continent vs "above-country" entity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @06:31AM (1 child)
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
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.