If you want to charge, you’ll need to download the Tesla app.
Add your payment method, select a stall, unlock the adapter, plug-in your car, and tap ‘Start Charging.’Sounds easy enough, but as you can see from this video, it’s a little more complicated than that.
That’s a lot of tapping and swiping! When a Tesla owner needs a charge, they simply pull up, plug in, and that’s it. The charging port on the vehicle even opens automatically when it detects a Supercharger nearby. There’s no question that the experience will be much more convenient for Tesla owners, as it should be. But the payment structure is also a lot different.
Non-Tesla owners can pay per charge, or they can sign up for a monthly $12.99 membership that gives them a discounted rate. Non-Tesla owners will pay a higher rate for charging at a Supercharger than Tesla owners, which Tesla says is meant to cover the “additional costs incurred to support charging a broad range of vehicles and adjustments to our sites to accommodate these vehicles.
Like Tesla owners, non-Tesla EV owners will incur an idle fee if they leave their vehicle plugged in for too long. And Tesla says it will be monitoring the rollout for congestion and other possible issues. It’s unclear how many sites in the US are now accessible to non-Tesla EVs, but Reddit users and other hyper-vigilant Tesla fans are posting online about new stations seemingly every day.
“More customers using the Supercharger network enables faster expansion,” the company says. “Our goal is to learn and iterate quickly, while continuing to aggressively expand the network, so we can eventually welcome both Tesla and non-Tesla drivers at every Supercharger worldwide.”
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