- Hey, Data Geeks.
Thanks for joining me.
Today we're gonna talk about the Tesla Supercharger Network
and they just released the actual rates
and some good friends on Reddit actually pulled together
all the different rates, the Tier 1 and Tier 2 rates
for all the states in the United States,
the provinces in Canada, as well as the countries in Europe,
as well as Asia and Australia.
So, I figured let's take a look at that data
and see what it's trying to tell us.
So, first off, there are two tiers here.
So some states in the United States
and some countries require, for whatever reason,
that you charge per minute instead of per kilowatt.
And so in this case, they actually have
two different tier pricing and so what I wanted to do
was actually try to calculate the cost
of actually travelling on this new Supercharger Network.
Now, any new Tesla purchased after January 15th of 2017
will actually have to pay to use the Supercharger Network.
If you buy a used Model S,
it'll actually be qualified
for the free Supercharger Network,
so that's something to think about as well
if you're still on the fence
and don't already have a reservation.
So another great thing is that Tesla's gonna give you
400 kilowatts of charging every year.
Now that gets you about a thousand miles for free,
or about 1,650 kilometers.
For a lot of people, that's gonna be enough.
But what if you wanted to take it further?
What if you wanted to really test the limits
and see how far your could go?
Well, I downloaded all the data
and I built some tools for us to use.
So let's dive in.
So looking at a map of the United States,
I have every state with the effective rate
that's being applied.
So that's some of Tier 1,
which goes up to 60 kilowatts of energy.
After that 60 kilowatts,
you're actually having to pay additional,
the Tier 2 pricing in some places.
So what I tried to do is calculate
if you have, say, a Model 75 or a 90, let's say,
the coefficient or the factor of additional cost
that you'll incur by charging your car fully.
So, to use this, what I wanna do is
I wanna calculate a trip.
Now, let's say I wanted to drive from L.A. to New York City.
That's about 2,777 miles according to Google.
And if I started with a charge of 270 miles
and then I took into account my credits
of 400 kilowatts that I get,
with my Model S 75 kilowatt battery,
I would be looking at an average of
Tier 1 at 11 cents, Tier 2 at 17 cents,
with an effective rate of 11 cents
and an estimated cost of 63 dollars.
Now, the way this tool works that I built here
is you can just punch in whatever number on top,
let's say I wanted to go 3,000 miles,
maybe San Diego to Boston,
and I wanted to actually plot my route,
what I can do is I can hold Command on my Mac keyboard,
or Control on my Windows keyboard,
and start with California and then just select the states
that I'm gonna drive through.
You can see that certain states, like Utah,
is a lot more expensive than Arizona.
So if I started in California, I went to Arizona,
then to New Mexico,
it looks like Texas and Oklahoma are the same,
let's go through the top part of Texas and Oklahoma.
Arkansas here actually doesn't have any chargers,
so I'll have to avoid that.
Then I'll go up to Missouri.
I could go through Illinois.
Let's say we'll stop in Chicago,
have a couple nights there, get some pizza,
head on over, all the way over to New York City,
then I'm gonna go through Massachusets
and I'm there in Boston.
So that little route that I calculate there,
what happened, if you notice,
is that my effective rate updated
as well as the averages for Tier 1 and Tier 2.
So this is a little tool I built
that will allow you to kind of route your trip
and see what the effective cost would be.
Now, if you need to adjust this,
let's say you're using this
and you've already used up some of your credits,
you can do so, just punch in a different number here,
let's say maybe 200.
I hit that and it instantly updates down below
with the estimated cost.
Now, I didn't want to leave my friends
in the other parts of the world out,
so I built another one of these.
Let's take a look at what Canada would look like.
And Canada, actually, there's a couple provinces
right in the middle that don't have chargers whatsoever
for the Supercharger Network.
So if you are gonna travel from one end to another,
you'll have to find destination chargers
or nice people that will let you use
their chargers in their home.
If I did, though, want to travel from
let's say Vancouver, B.C., down to San Francisco,
this is about 1,528 kilometers,
so let's change our number here, 1,528.
We're starting our charge with about 420 kilometers.
Again, you can adjust this to whatever you're starting with
or whatever your car typically has.
And this time, let's get our
400 kilowatts of free energy back
and we're using our Model S 75 kilowatt battery.
And you can see the actual estimated cost is zero.
That's because with the credits,
I wouldn't have to actually pay for that.
It would be more than what I would need.
Now, what if I wanted to come back though?
Let's say 3,000 kilometers.
Well, you can see now I'm up to 31 bucks,
but however I haven't actually selected my route.
So this is just using some averages,
which include every state in the United States
as well as the states or provinces up there in Canada.
So let's choose our route.
So if I started up here in British Columbia,
drove down to Washington and Oregon,
into California and back,
I would be looking at an average effective rate
of about 14 cents coming to about 31 U.S. dollars.
So, you can use this tool if you're in Canada.
The one caveat, again, is that you've got
a couple provinces here in the middle
that might make it difficult.
I don't know if you can make it all the way
from Alberta to Ontario there.
But good luck and I hope this helps you.
And for my friends in Europe,
I didn't want to leave you out.
I have another map here with another calculator
that you can use to figure out the charges
you might incur on a trip.
Now, one of the challenges though
is that Europe is actually quite small distance-wise
compared to the size of the United States,
so if you were to drive, let's say,
from London to Glasgow or Edinburgh up in Scotland,
that's only 663 kilometers.
You can see that if we enter that into our calculator here,
663 kilometers with our full credits,
we're looking at zero dollars.
We would actually have to do this four times,
that's four trips, maybe two round trips,
from London to Edinburgh or London to Glasgow,
before we would actually need to pay for anything.
We could, however, if you wanna use this calculate
to figure out what it would be without any credits,
just change the credits down to zero,
and see that it'd be about 13 euros each way.
I did think, however, what if I was sitting in London,
having some tea and biscuits,
maybe some Hobnobs, those are my favorites,
and I wanted to go listen to some of my favorite music,
down in a place that I really enjoy, Segovia Spain?
Well, that trip is quite far.
It is about 2,200 kilometers.
So if we enter that here and we put back our credits,
you can see that that trip would cost us
about six euros.
Now we haven't selected our route.
So let's make sure that the prices are correct.
I start in Great Britain and then I go over to France,
and then I go down to Espana.
Alright, and you can see that the effective rate
is about 22 cents and the estimated cost
is going to be six euros, just over six euros there.
I also have all of the details here
available for download in a couple other sheets.
There's by country and then there's also U.S. and Canada
broken out by state and province.
So I hope this helps you on your travels
in figuring out what the Supercharger Network
might cost you when you go on a road trip
with your new Tesla.
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