- Tesla’s newest Supercharger replace comes with huge pace enhancements for some automobiles.
- The V4 Cupboard can energy as much as eight stalls without delay.
- It helps automobiles with battery packs rated between 400V and 1,000V.
The Tesla Supercharger community has lengthy been the benchmark within the DC quick charging world. With tens of hundreds of stalls in North America alone, Superchargers gave Tesla the sting as a result of they’re (nearly) in all places and so they’re easy to make use of, making lengthy highway journeys hassle-free.
That mentioned, they’re not good, at the very least in the case of charging speeds. Don’t get me fallacious, they’re greater than succesful, with a most energy output of 250 kilowatts for automobiles just like the Tesla Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, however different community operators on the market, corresponding to Electrify America, can go even larger.
Not anymore, although. That’s as a result of Tesla simply upped the ante within the EV charging recreation–once more–with the introduction of what it calls the V4 Cupboard. The charging cupboards do all of the heavy lifting and till now, even the latest-gen V4 stalls–people who you park subsequent to and plug in to recharge–have been counting on the older V3 Cupboard. That restricted the stalls’ potential to ship even larger charging speeds, particularly on EVs utilizing 800-volt architectures and better.
Vehicles just like the Tesla Cybertruck, which has an 800V battery pack, and the Lucid Air, which has a 900V pack, are at the moment restricted by the V3 cupboards which may solely ship a most of 500V per stall. With the most recent V4 Cupboard, although, that’s not the case.
In keeping with Tesla, the up to date energy supply field helps automobiles with battery packs rated between 400V and 1,000V, which results in 30% sooner charging speeds for the Cybertruck–as much as 500 kW as seen in the promo video posted by the corporate on X.
For the Tesla Semi, the facility output is even larger–as much as 1.2 Megawatts–however all the opposite Tesla fashions are nonetheless restricted to 250 kW, identical to earlier than. That’s a giant distinction from the primary Supercharger which went on-line in 2012 with a most output of 90 kW per automobile.
The V4 Cupboard has a smaller footprint and fewer complexity than its predecessor. Regardless of this, it may well energy as much as eight stalls without delay, double in comparison with the earlier model. Tesla claims the electronics used within the V4 Cupboard are “designed to be essentially the most dependable on the planet,” with 3 times the facility density of the outgoing mannequin, enabling larger throughput with decrease prices.
Max de Zegher, the Director of Charging in North America at Tesla, mentioned the up to date Supercharger Cupboard eliminated the need to make use of DC busbars between cupboards. With the earlier model, two cupboards needed to be linked to energy eight stalls.
Moreover, the most recent cupboard model has a 2% effectivity enchancment over the earlier iteration. That won’t sound like a lot, however once we think about that Superchargers ship over 5 terawatt-hours of vitality per 12 months, a 2% enchancment in effectivity results in 100 gigawatt-hours/12 months in waste warmth saved.
The primary Tesla Supercharger websites with V4 Cupboards are at the moment within the allowing course of and the primary stations will open subsequent 12 months.
