It has been more than three years since Tesla’s first V3 Superchargers entered service in the North American market. Since then, Tesla has been expanding its availability to other markets, including Europe, and today in Spain there are already several charging stations of the American firm that have this technology. Now, Elon Musk’s brand of success is preparing its next generation, v4.
For Tesla, charging speed is a priority
Charging speed has been one of the most used selling points for Tesla along with its extensive network of chargers that spans several continents. The arrival of the competition has unleashed a race to charge the battery in the shortest possible time, which benefits users and the implementation of the electric car.
Now from the United States, the brand is already thinking about the next generation of a technology that is giving very good results with its number 4, the continuation of some Superchargers that are presented as the great alternative for what are today’s electric cars… and from the future.
In fact, these are one of the points on which you can boast the most in front of your competitors. Right now, his Superchargers are at V3, but Elon Musk has already teased what awaits us with the V4 Superchargers; that is, with the next infrastructure upgrade.
With solar panels, powers of 350 kW…
In this direction, what we know is that the company dedicated to electric cars introduces these improvements as if they were ‘updates’ of an application, and the next one, which is ready to be rolled out, is called Supercharger V4.
But it is that not only does it imply a substantial improvement in power for all its charging points, but it also implies the arrival of a Megapack and also an installation of solar panels . All in all, one of the big news is that these will be a little taller and slightly thinner than the Megachargers.
An important novelty: these new chargers will have a larger cable, because the idea is that models of other electric car brands can also use the Tesla charging network. They will also have CCs, the standard connector used in Europe that is becoming popular in the United States, which expands the range of charging connectivity with any type of electrified vehicle.
In relation to its power, currently the V3 chargers have a power of 250 kW, while with the Tesla v4 this will increase to 350 kW . Previously, the V2, which are the oldest generation, only reached 150 kW. Tesla has some 35,000 charging stations installed around the world: that number is expected to increase and soon reach 40,000 by the end of this year.
what awaits us
The increase in power would result in a speed increase that would bring Tesla’s supercharger network closer to that of other distribution networks that typically use speeds of up to 350 kW, such as Infinity or Ionity.
Currently the Tesla are only equipped with a 400 V battery system, something that would not allow them to take advantage of the increase in power. This perhaps means that, with V4 chargers, we could see an increase in the voltage of the Texan manufacturer’s cars.
For its part, and in relation to that standard connector, the CCs, we can say that the intention that Tesla has is to open its charging network to electric vehicles of other brands also outside Europe, it will force Tesla to give this step at a global level , and the logical thing is to consider that its new generation of V4 Superchargers will integrate the double hose from day one.
