Open access Supercharger trial begins in The Netherlands

[dan_b]

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-open-su ... therlands/

Be interesting to see how this goes - both for non-Tesla owners and their experience of Superchargers, but also how Tesla owners will react to seeing non-Teslas charging up next to them!

Here's the actual Tesla post

https://www.tesla.com/nl_NL/support/non ... ntsc_pilot

[dan_b]

This from a chap in The Netherlands at one of the open access sites and his Hyundai Kona BEV.
Got a peak of 55kW and was charged €0.59/kWh - that's basically double the cost for Teslas at the same location. Very interesting.

[dan_b]

Another non-Tesla checking out the Dutch open access Superchargers - this time a Mach-E.
Rather dodgy parking to get the cable to the charging point though!
Apparently he only saw a peak of 37kW but by his own admission "the battery was already nearly full".

[Andy]

Got a peak of 55kW and was charged €0.59/kWh - that's basically double the cost for Teslas at the same location. Very interesting.

I was hoping it would b cheaper. At that price I'd still elect to take my diesel on a long journey. Works out similar price without the faff. Wrong attitude I know but keeps the peace and turns an 18 hour journey into an 11 hour one.

[Stinsy]

Got a peak of 55kW and was charged €0.59/kWh - that's basically double the cost for Teslas at the same location. Very interesting.

I was hoping it would b cheaper. At that price I'd still elect to take my diesel on a long journey. Works out similar price without the faff. Wrong attitude I know but keeps the peace and turns an 18 hour journey into an 11 hour one.

Tesla have made it clear non-Teslas will pay more than Teslas at the same charger at the same time of day. I think the point is that you're supposed to charge regularly at home and see the cost of €0.59 is a bit steep though!

[Mr Gus]

Ball crushing price per charge for non Tesla owners.

In this instance I'd like to see it a bit cheaper to encourage uptake & kick start the second hand market.

I don't need car marque snobbery, I'm just happy to see another EV when parking up at homebase.

[dan_b]

Tesla has always said that part of the cost of the car is to pay for the Supercharger network - so I guess if you don't have a Tesla that makes sense to pay extra. Although I have previously moaned about the high cost of Ionity for non-Ionity founder member owners (VW/Audi/BMW/Mercedes), so I guess that makes me a blazing hypocrite

Either way I think it's a good thing it's been trialled - the SuC network is huge and works. Which is more than can be said for most, if not all, of the non-Tesla HPC charger networks around the world.

[dan_b]

Some videos of non-Tesla Supercharger sessions including a Taycan and an Ioniq

[dan_b]

Bjorn Nyland's take on it

[Andy]

Oh that's more interesting. The subscription of 13 euros gets you a much better rate of .24 euros per kWh. And break even is just below 40kWh which makes long journeys worthwhile. It'll be still a hard sell to the family.