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Finding your way around Supercharger stations just got a lot easier from your phone. Tesla has brought its detailed charger layouts beyond the in-car touchscreen, introducing 3D Supercharger Site Maps directly inside the mobile app.
The feature has begun rolling out to drivers starting in Tesla app version 4.61.0 (and later), giving owners a real-time birds-eye perspective of station layouts, open charging stalls, and physical obstacles before ever pulling into a lot.
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Mobile Visuals and Platform Differences
While in-car screens render station layouts within a fully interactive 3D space, the mobile implementation is a bit more restrained. On your phone, the Site Map acts as an overhead layout rather than a rotatable environment. You can zoom in and out, but you can’t spin the perspective around or inspect vehicles from custom camera angles like you can on the center screen.
How Supercharger Site Maps work on the vehicle screen
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Tesla also appears to be relying on a separate mapping layer to serve these layouts on smartphones. As you zoom in on a supported Supercharger, there’s a slight visual lag before the Site Map pops onto the display. Once the Site Map loads, you lose the Apple Maps details for the surrounding area and are instead served Tesla’s tailored Suspercharger canvas showing stalls, parking spaces, lanes, and vehicles.
Scaling it up across the Supercharger network, which boasts more than 80,000 stalls globally today, required heavy lifting behind the scenes. Tesla previously noted that its engineering and mapping crew at Giga New York was bringing over 300 Supercharger sites worldwide into the fold every week.
Supercharger Site Maps on mobile (left) vs in vehicles (right)
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On the mobile app, however, Tesla has already incorporated the dedicated 3D model for the Cybercab. If you want to spot one plugged into a stall on your phone, Austin is your best bet — it remains the only city where the steering wheel-less vehicles are running commercially on the Robotaxi network.
With the graphic assets already active in the app build, it likely won’t be long before the in-car display catches up. In the meantime, having stall layouts right in your pocket makes planning charging stops that much smoother.
The next-generation Tesla Roadster is finally stepping back into the spotlight. After years of speculation and shifting timelines, Tesla has officially reopened reservations for its most expensive vehicle yet on its official website.
The move comes just weeks before Tesla is set to unveil the vehicle in Waco, Texas, on October 1. Nearly a decade after its original concept debut in 2017, the halo sports car is getting a fresh, formal unveiling where pricing, specs, and production targets are expected to finally take center stage.
The $50,000 Buy-In
Reserving a spot in line requires the same financial commitment Tesla asked for in 2017: an initial $5,000 payment due immediately, backed by a $45,000 wire transfer required within 10 days to finalize the order. The entire $50,000 deposit remains fully refundable, so if you change your mind after seeing the vehicle next month, you can get your money back.
Tesla also includes a clear caveat regarding what you’ll end up paying. The reservation terms note that any estimated purchase price is merely an estimate, adding that options, hardware, and packaging are still being finalized and the true price tag will only be confirmed once order configurators officially go live. When Tesla initially took deposits in 2017, it promised a $200,000 retail price for the base model and a $250,000 Founder’s Series, but changing manufacturing realities — not to mention the nine years that have gone by — almost guarantee price adjustments.
Visually, the production model appears quite different from the curvy red concept that rolled out of a Semi trailer in 2017. The teaser image shared on the reservation portal showcases a sharp, angular rear with a wide illuminated light bar and an aggressive aerodynamic spoiler that leans heavily into a blockier "Cyber" aesthetic rather than traditional supercar curves. For more details, check out everything we know about the Roadster so far.
A fan-made concept of the Roadster 2.0 based on Tesla's teaser image
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A Rocky Road to Waco
The Roadster’s path to production has been notoriously turbulent. First revealed in the fall of 2017 with an original 2020 delivery target, the sports car was repeatedly shelved to prioritize Model Y volume and the Cybertruck. Even this year, Tesla originally targeted an April 1 presentation before repeatedly kicking the date down the line, finally landing on October.
Elon Musk’s increasingly lofty development goals likely didn’t help, either. Along the way, Musk has made wild promises about the Roadster’s performance envelope. Beyond a standard 0-60 mph sprint under two seconds, Musk has touted an optional SpaceX cold-gas thruster package capable of dropping 0-60 mph acceleration below one second, while joking that the sports car might even be able to “fly.”
Musk has spent recent months hyping the upcoming Waco demo as something truly unprecedented. “We actually need an audience to vouch for the fact that this is not AI,” he said at an event earlier this week.
Whether rocket thrusters make the cut for street-legal Roadster builds remains to be seen, but reopening order books proves Tesla is finally ready to show what nine years of development have delivered.
