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Yesterday at the Model S launch Elon seems to have indicated that there is going to be a change in the supercharger strategy in the UK. Possibly as part of the spat with ecotricity but I wonder if it goes further that that.
I imagine the pitch is easy to possible location owners you let us put a set of chargers here and we will bring you a large amount of customers who would not normally come here. I suspect the cafe at the Crystal is going so a big uptick in visitors in the next few months.
So instead of sitting at a motorway services eating burger king or drinking starbucks coffee, how much nicer would be to get to where you going and find a supercharger there.
If the plan as it seems, is to give access to tesla technology to other manufactuers that will allow them to build cars with 200-300 mile range and use superchargers, and Telsa are planning to blanket the UK with chargers at major popular destinations and make them available to cars of all types, will there be any need for motorway charging (except for current generation cars) ?
I imagine the pitch is easy to possible location owners you let us put a set of chargers here and we will bring you a large amount of customers who would not normally come here. I suspect the cafe at the Crystal is going so a big uptick in visitors in the next few months.
So instead of sitting at a motorway services eating burger king or drinking starbucks coffee, how much nicer would be to get to where you going and find a supercharger there.
If the plan as it seems, is to give access to tesla technology to other manufactuers that will allow them to build cars with 200-300 mile range and use superchargers, and Telsa are planning to blanket the UK with chargers at major popular destinations and make them available to cars of all types, will there be any need for motorway charging (except for current generation cars) ?