[USe-car]

Are all the Tesla Charging Stations superchargers? I mean, could an owner stop at any Tesla charging station and receive the 80% full charge in 30 minutes? Do all the Tesla charging stations also have a 240V J1772 charger also? Are the Tesla superchargers free to Tesla owners? Thanks for the responses.

 

[jcanoe]

Are all the Tesla Charging Stations superchargers? I mean, could an owner stop at any Tesla charging station and receive the 80% full charge in 30 minutes? Do all the Tesla charging stations also have a 240V J1772 charger also? Are the Tesla superchargers free to Tesla owners? Thanks for the responses.

No, Tesla also has a network of Destination Charging stations that are not Supercharger Stations. To be able to recharge a Tesla vehicle's battery to 50% SOC in 20 minutes, 80% SOC in 40 minutes, 100% SOC in 75 minutes you need to be plugged into a Tesla Supercharger that charges at up to 120 kw per Tesla vehicle (the charging rate is lower if two Tesla vehicles are charging at the same Supercharger charging point at the same time.) I don't believe that the Supercharger Stations support Level II charging. It would be counter to the fast recharge paradigm that is the reason for the Supercharger Stations. Level II charging would take too long to charge and would create unwanted vehicle congestion at the Supercharger Stations. [Correction: Tesla Supercharging is currently free for Tesla Model S and Model X owners. Model 3 owners will be charged a fee to use the Supercharger network. Tesla has not announced the details of the program for Model 3 owners.]

 

[srmarti]

The Tesla forum is so bad, it's better to ask the Volt guys? Yea, I know it's in the right section of the forum. Just wondering why not get the info direct from the source?

 

[TennesseeJoule]

No, Tesla also has a network of Destination Charging stations that are not Supercharger Stations.

I don't believe that the Supercharger Stations support Level II charging. It would be counter to the fast recharge paradigm that is the reason for the Supercharger Stations. Level II charging would take too long to charge and would create unwanted vehicle congestion at the Supercharger Stations.

As stated Tesla supercharger stations do not have Level 2 charging, however Tesla typically installs a J1772 Level 2 station alongside it's destination charging stations.

 

[rdunniii]

The Tesla forum is so bad, it's better to ask the Volt guys? Yea, I know it's in the right section of the forum. Just wondering why not get the info direct from the source?

Because someone wants to know how to charge their non Tesla there. The simple answer is the charger talks to the car and if the car does not respond appropriately that it is a Tesla, regardless of adapters it will be ignored.

 

[saghost]

Are all the Tesla Charging Stations superchargers? I mean, could an owner stop at any Tesla charging station and receive the 80% full charge in 30 minutes? Do all the Tesla charging stations also have a 240V J1772 charger also? Are the Tesla superchargers free to Tesla owners? Thanks for the responses.

Not sure what you're defining as a Tesla Charging Station. There are 399 active Supercharger sites around the country today (more every day,) all of which are nominally capable of delivering that charging rate, and the car automatically directs long trips through those sites. These sites generally do not have any other form of charging available, though some are co-located with other types of DCFC on other networks (NJ Turnpike locations, for instance.)

Tesla also encourages hotels and restaurants to offer charging - actually, they'll generally donate the charger and pay for installation if the venue asks for it and pays for the electricity. These are the so called "Destination Chargers" - which are also listed in the car's navigation in a separate section, and are intended for folks that are not driving long distances at the time. They are A/C Wall connectors (EVSEs), delivering up to 80A @ 240V (though a lot of them are actually 208V, and many are 40A or lower.) In those cases, Tesla will donate a Clipper Creek J1772 EVSE for every pair of Wall Connectors if the venue chooses. In my limited experience, about half of them have the J1772.

Tesla Superchargers were free to Tesla owners. Many owners are grandfathered in, and some special cases allow some future owners to have it for free as well. However, Tesla has established official pricing policies going forward, which generally run around 20% higher than domestic electricity in the various markets (a lot of places they have to charge by the minute, because the local laws forbid selling power unless you're a utility.)

The S and X will still get 400 kWh per year included for free if you aren't grandfathered in - it's not obvious if this will extend to the 3 or not at this point.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Are all the Tesla Charging Stations superchargers? I mean, could an owner stop at any Tesla charging station and receive the 80% full charge in 30 minutes? Do all the Tesla charging stations also have a 240V J1772 charger also? Are the Tesla superchargers free to Tesla owners? Thanks for the responses.

There are:
Superchargers - Tesla DCFC
HPWCs (High-powered Wall Connectors) - 80A-capable Level 2. It's a J1772 with the Tesla connector. (It's actually cheap for what it offers).

There's only a few Supercharger locations where there's also a J1772 with them.
Tesla has a destination charging program where host locations can get 2 free HPWCs. (They're cheap for what they offer; can be linked to allow power sharing).

There's a few of the oldest Superchargers that are limited to 90kW.
There are also a few temporary Superchargers that are also at lower power.

Superchargers are free at point of use to S and X owners. (There are some special exceptions that can be ignored.)
Superchargers will not be free at point of use to Model 3 owners. There will be charges to a credit card associated with the owner's Tesla account.
Price depends on the state or country. (Due to varying laws, some are per kWh, some are per minute (depending on <=.60kW or > 60kW; they prefer per kWh). https://www.tesla.com/support/supercharging
The exact details are up in the air. For the S and X Tesla said it'd be 400kwh included per year, but went back to free Supercharging with a referral (which everybody can get). For the Model 3 someone on the Tesla Motors Club forum posted that they'd been told that they'd get a one-off free 1,000kWh at purchase. Tesla's probably still figuring whether to have a free yearly amount and what it should be.

https://www.tesla.com/findus has a map of current Supercharger locations, future Supercharger cities (those gray markers just indicate the city, not the exact locations), destination chargers and stores and service centers. You can change the selections so the map just shows the HPWCs (Destination Charging) or Superchargers or both.

 

[bro1999]

Are all the Tesla Charging Stations superchargers? I mean, could an owner stop at any Tesla charging station and receive the 80% full charge in 30 minutes? Do all the Tesla charging stations also have a 240V J1772 charger also? Are the Tesla superchargers free to Tesla owners? Thanks for the responses.

This device (http://www.shop.quickchargepower.co...tation-Adaptor-JDPTRSTB.htm?coupon=JDapter239) will let any EV charge at just about any NON-SUPERCHARGER Tesla destination station.

 

[srmarti]

Because someone wants to know how to charge their non Tesla there. The simple answer is the charger talks to the car and if the car does not respond appropriately that it is a Tesla, regardless of adapters it will be ignored.

I would have asked more directly. Something like "Do any Tesla charging stations support charging non-Tesla cars?"

 

[11715]

I would have asked more directly. Something like "Do any Tesla charging stations support charging non-Tesla cars?"

Superchargers will only charge Tesla.

 

[srmarti]

Superchargers will only charge Tesla.

I knew that. If fact when I asked a local shopping mall company if they had other charging station besides the 16 empty Tesla chargers I drive by, the answer was no. I assume they were superchargers.

I'm not so sure the OP was asking if other cars can use Tesla chargers.