Tesla Hits 85,000 Superchargers at 9,000 Locations Worldwide

The network added about 5,000 stalls since April, with about 2,700 opened in Q3 alone, as Tesla's pre-assembled Superchargers speed up installs.

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Nehal Malik

Tesla’s Supercharger network has passed 9,000 locations and 85,000 stalls worldwide. According to data from supercharge.info, there are now 9,000 open and active Supercharger locations with over 85,000 stalls. Tesla’s Director of Charging, Max de Zegher, replied to a breakdown from supercharge.info’s John Baker, noting, “Your numbers are very close to ours.”

The milestone comes about six months after Tesla hit 80,000 Supercharger stalls in April, so it has added roughly 5,000 more since.

Supercharger Growth Keeps Accelerating

supercharge.info’s charts show how much the pace has picked up. The network was around 2,500 sites and 23,000 stalls at the start of 2021. It has added roughly 6,500 sites and over 60,000 stalls since, and the lines get steeper each year.

Tesla’s Q3 numbers fit that trend. It opened about 2,700 stalls in the quarter, up 15% year over year. Superchargers also delivered 2.4 TWh of energy between July and September, up 29% from a year ago.

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Baker’s breakdown shows 8,896 of the 9,002 open sites (98.8%) are Tesla’s. The other 106 (1.2%) come from the Supercharger for Business program, which lets businesses buy and brand Tesla-managed Superchargers. Businesses get to keep all the revenue from these white label Superchargers — minus a service fee charged by Tesla — and more and more companies are signing on.

By stalls, 84,427 (99.3%) are Tesla’s and 628 (0.7%) are Superchargers for Business. 5,622 Supercharger sites (62.5%) support other EVs, making up 61,071 stalls (71.8%).

Where Most Superchargers Are

North America is home to more than half of Tesla’s Supercharger network, at 43,158 open stalls (51.1%), followed by Europe at 22,574 (26.7%), and Asia Pacific at 18,651 (22.1%). South America has just 20. supercharge.info’s map shows dense clusters across the U.S., Europe, and China, with 365 known sites currently under construction and 1,412 more planned worldwide.

How Tesla Is Building Faster

Tesla’s evolving Supercharger deployment methods are a big reason the growth keeps speeding up. Last month, it debuted its Accordion Supercharger, which makes it easier to deploy stalls in trickier locations. Tesla has also been moving toward pre-fabricated posts it can drop in and wire up, plus folding Superchargers that install even quicker. Together, all of these deployment strategies are helping expand the world’s largest DC fast-charging infrastructure.

Tesla also introduced an Emergency Drive Away feature last week that lets drivers break away from a stall in an emergency, though it’s limited to U.S. Superchargers for now.

At roughly 2,500 to 2,700 new stalls per quarter, Tesla should hit the 90,000-stall mark around next spring.