How Tesla built the equivalent of a gas station network

The Tesla Supercharger network was launched in 2012 with six stations covering the entire state of California , allowing Model S owners to freely travel from San Francisco to San Diego free from worry about running out of juice.

All superchargers are manufactured at Tesla's Buffalo , NY gigafactory.

All of those iconic white and red charging stations are mass manufactured on an automated production line, Just like Tesla vehicles.

Level 2 charging can only provide you about 3 to 4 miles of range increase per hour of charging.

Level 3 charging has a maximum power output of 350 to 400 kilowatts of energy.

Tesla 's Superchargers are directly integrated into the vehicle's operating system, so your car always knows where the nearest Supercharger is located.

The true limiting factor to charging speed is the amount of power the battery pack can accept, not the output of the charging station.

The only way that we are going to see a significant decrease in EV charging time is going to require a major step change in battery technology.

That means solid-state battery cells or some other kind of innovation that currently only exists on a theoretical level.