Super exciting news today, both for Tesla fans and for non Tesla fans as well. Basically for any electric vehicle driver, if you are driving an electric car, then great news in that the new Tesla supercharger V four model will be open to. All electric cars in the uk. Tesla is renowned for its supercharger network up and down the country.
They're absolutely fantastic speeds fantastic prices if you own a Tesla as well. And, and this technology is now ramping up across other EV cars as well. So we all know that Tesla have had agreements with Ford and the like to kind of. Expand out the usage of the Tesla superchargers for the V threes and for the V fours, they'll be available to use by absolutely anybody.
So they'll have a c c S port and they'll also feature contactless payment. So any electric car ca can use them. It's will have a three meter long cable as well. So no more kind of parking, any kind of weird front or back way or sideways angles to try and get. The Tesla connector onto a Ford car, for example.
These will have a sufficient cable that can kind of meet the demands of, of any car and can power the cars up to 250 kilowatts, which which is fantastic and super, super fast. So you can pay via the contactless card method or via the Tesla smartphone app, as a lot of people already do.
Prices will be set at 50 pence per ki hour, which is not so bad. I've seen myself, when I've been driving my Tesla model three, that I've been kind of getting prices. Varying around the 35 to 40 P mark. Obviously there's a slight premium for, non Tesla drivers there, but really you know, I've seen some charges 80, even 90 p per kilowatt hour.
So, you know, he looks at like, sort of pod point. BP Pulse Ivy Ev, or however you pronounce it, there's a wide variety of prices across a wide variety of maybe broken or dysfunctional providers. But Tesla has always led the way in terms of a 99% up rate. And a 50 p per kilowatt hour rate is actually very, very attractive.
The V four supercharge will in fact just be kind of a, a small, solid boxed unit feature a digital screen on the front of it as well. So that'll help with any card payments and also help provide a, a bit of a digital receipt that can downloaded through scannable QR code as well.
The fastest charging EVs currently on sale in the uk, kind of max out around that 350 kilowatt mark. But the advent of the 800 volt charging hardware is anticipated to offer a much quicker top up in near the future. So the first V four devices are at Tesla's dealership in Tottenham, north London, which I suspect will be very busy over the next few weeks.
But eventually we'll be rolled out to Tesla charging sites across the uk.
You know, we have to give it up for Tesla. You know, this American brand operates one of the most prolific charging networks of any provider in the uk. You know, they've got over 1,100 chargers fitted at 115 locations, an average of 10 each. So, you know, it has to be said that these are gonna be some impressive stats that Tesla are now going to be able to, to kind of pull out the back here.
So super excited to understand and hear about how you have found these charges. These fast is advertised.
Are there lots of cues? And do they look good? So let me know the comments below. I'll speak to you next time. Cheers.
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