Tesla plans new world’s largest Supercharger with an impressive 200 stalls [guess where]

Electrek ^ | Apr 8 2024 - 8:44 am PT | Fred Lambert

[Red Badger]

Tesla has unveiled plans for a new world’s largest Supercharger station, with an impressive 200 stalls in Yeehaw Junction, Florida.

It was just over a month ago that we learned that Tesla planned a new world’s largest Supercharger station – a new 164-stall station in California.

Now, Tesla is already planning to beat that and by a significant margin.

Tesla has now filed for a new mega Supercharger station in Florida with an astonishing 200 stalls:

Yeehaw Junction is located along 3 highways connecting south and central Florida as well as the coast. It makes the site strategically located for a charging station and Tesla is investing big on it.

Currently, the location only has a truck stop with a Dunkin and Subway. It will be interesting to see if the massive Supercharger station will help bring more amenities to the location or if Tesla deploys its own, which it has been doing at a few bigger locations lately.

Electrek’s Take This is beautiful to see. The infrastructure is obviously a big part of the solution to accelerate EV adoption and Tesla has been on top of the problem for a while.

There have been concerns as Tesla opens up the Supercharger network to all other EVs, which will put a lot more stress on the network, but it is nice to see Tesla investing in much bigger charging stations in anticipation of the increased usage.

Tesla is also planning to add pull-through stalls at its new stations, 8 stalls in this case, to support vehicles with trailers as EVs become bigger and more capable of towing.

All good stuff.

[GenXPolymath]

“If two hundred EVs hooked up at once, it would take days to charge them.”

This project is going to have a dedicated 32K or 64,000 volt triple phase service to a local substation. 200 chargers is 50 megawatts that is only 781 amps split across three phases of HVAC the standard 1000MCM aluminum wires that run between a large industrial load and a substation handle that with ease. Industrial loads are measured in megawatts their power is also priced in megawatt hours they have a different demand structure than residential or even large commercial loads. I would be surprised if they pay more than $40 a megawatt hour for power at any other time than peak hours. Tesla probably will install a few shipping container sized megapacks to smooth out the peak loading curves. The going rate for a V3 supercharger for not Model S users is 43 cents per kWh at 250kw those chargers each have a hourly revenue rate of $107 and all 200 of them is $21,500 per hour of gross revenue. In a 8 hour day that’s a $172,000 per day revenue potential. <<<this is why Tesla is in the charger game. Those chargers will be open 24/7 no 8 hours but you plan on less than 100% utilize rate. The payback period in a Tesla supercharger is measured in months even with the grid tie and pad transformer costs. Tesla makes the charger in house so they only have to buy the grid tie and the pad transformer.