Tesla unveils Supercharger station built in just 8 days thanks to new pre-fabricated system

Tesla has released footage unveiling its pre-built system for deploying new Supercharger stations in record time.

This new one in Florida was built in just a week.

Tesla is currently expanding its Supercharger network at an impressive rate.

The automaker went from 23,277 superchargers across 2,564 stations at the end of 2020 to 31,498 superchargers at 3,476 stations at the end of 2021. It is growing at 35% year-on-year pace.

However, it has been lagging behind vehicle deliveries, which have grown by 87 percent during the same period – now slowly starting to allow non-Tesla EV owners to use the network.

It also falls short of Tesla’s own goal of tripling the Supercharger network in two years.

This is not necessary because of Tesla’s lack of effort, but mostly because of the complexity of deploying a single charging station.

Once Tesla knows that it wants, or needs, to open a new Supercharger in a specific area, it needs to find an asset to build it and the property owners must agree to a contract. .

Then the automaker needs to design the project, it has to be approved by the municipality and local electric utility. It then needs to schedule a local contractor to do the installation and work with the local utility to activate it.

If Tesla runs into a problem with only one of those steps, there could be a significant delay in a project.

But that wasn’t the case for this new Supercharger project in Brooksville, Florida, which Tesla put together in just 8 days:

Of course, this is just the construction phase, but even so, it’s an impressive deployment of a significant 12-stall Supercharger station in just over a week.

Tesla was able to achieve this thanks to a new pre-fabricated supercharger system.

You can see the company delivering the stalls already assembled on the truck:

This greatly simplifies the construction phase and reduces costs, while resulting in less disruption to the parking lot, which is often used by nearby businesses.

Tesla has already used this method for some of the stations it has deployed over the past few months, and it will be interesting to see if it becomes the norm.

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