Today Tesla operates 24,000 chargers at over 2,700 Supercharger stations globally. Back to Earth Day on April 22, Justin Lange, Tesla’s market lead for Superchargers in the mid-Atlantic, posted some interesting statistics about the network.
Since the first launch, Superchargers enabled 8.3 billion miles of all-electric range, saved over 1.5 billion liters (334 million gallons) of gasoline, and offset about 3 billion kg (6.6 billion pounds) of CO2.
But, what is even more interesting, Tesla plans to switch all of its Superchargers to renewable energy sources til the end of 2021.
Some Superchargers already use renewable energy sources, while for instance in Quebec all stations are powered by hydropower electricity. However, most Superchargers globally are still connected to the grid, and in many regions the energy is still produced from fossil fuels.
By the way, in 2017 Elon Musk already shared plans for Tesla to add solar and batteries to Superchargers, disconnecting them from the grid. Seems that this year the process will be over.
