Owners of Audi and Porsche electric cars in the United States and Canada will gain access to the Tesla Supercharger network of DC fast chargers tomorrow. The move comes as more and more automakers have struck deals with Tesla to use its expansive network, which now has over 23,500 stalls open to non-Tesla EVs and over 35,000 stalls in total.
The plug clicked. The screen said "charging." But the lights weren't flashing, so was it really working? Welcome to the sometimes-baffling learning curve of EV ownership, where even success can look like failure. Creator and model Natalie Gauvreau (@sngvip) gives voice to the guessing games and uncertainty of charging an EV in a viral TikTok clip shot recently near Dallas.
Creating garage space would increase the number of homes capable of EV charging from 31 million to more than 50 million. And when we include houses where the owner thinks it's feasible to add wiring, that grows to more than 72 million homes. And that's far more than Telemetry's most optimistic estimate of US EV penetration for 2035, which ranges from 33 million to 57 million EVs on the road 10 years from now.
