Next story I wanna talk about is pretty cool.
There's kind of two angles to it.
So I'm gonna start by talking about some data,
and then some bigger stuff
and then I'll bring it local for you.
So I was doing some research on the supercharger network.
I found this website supercharge.info,
which has a ton of great details
and everything about superchargers.
I think it's all around the world like permits,
what's under construction, what's open, etc.
These guys do a pretty cool job.
They have all kinds of stuff there and they have an API.
So I was able to pull in the data from this
and do some analysis to figure out
how is the supercharger network going.
So that's what I did here.
So you can see here I have
essentially the supercharger network growth
and this is number of stalls by quarter.
Now just to be clear,
this is not the official number from Tesla.
They do have an API with all of 'em,
but they don't have the date it opened.
So I'm using this data, even though it's not complete,
to forecast some things because it should be good enough.
So that was the first thing I thought.
Okay, let's look at how many stalls there are
just worldwide or the growth.
You can see there's a huge growth in Q4 of last year.
So then I thought, okay.
Let's take a look at that,
but let's do it now with a trend
and let's see exactly what's going on
in terms of just what is the overall trend here.
When this pulls up, I will show it to you.
Problem is I pull these up in advance,
and then they kind of timeout
and so I have to refresh from here.
So obviously the trend if you look,
pretty much directly upward.
The R squared, .58.
That's not bad.
But yeah, the P value is not great on this,
so anyways.
So the trend is going up.
We like the that.
Then I did a forecast
and here's where it's actually really cool.
I really love this chart
because you can see that basically
the trend of what's going on,
and then also there's the forecasted trend.
So as of and lemme select some of these here.
As of Q1 of 2018,
it looks like total they're at 9,446 stalls,
and then if we were to include the rest,
the next round of that,
we would be towards 8,700 stalls.
So that's by the end of 2019.
Essentially, the overall network will likely double.
So that's great news.
I mean this thing is just, and it makes sense
because with more people getting their cars,
I mean thousands and thousands more getting 'em,
you're gonna need more.
So then I wanted to see about kind of regional growth.
Where is the actual growth happening?
So this chart here, what it shows you is
essentially a dot for every supercharger
and then the color, the darker the color
means the more recent it was opened.
So you can kinda see the darker patches being ones
where it's kind of hotter activity.
So if you go down to like, let's say San Diego,
you can see we got nothing. (laughs)
Is there a Southern California one?
No.
Let's just do Los Angeles.
You can see Los Angeles.
So in this map you can kinda zoom around.
Now I think this one only has actual US data,
but the website has worldwide data
so I can update it to include that.
So you can kinda see all the new superchargers going on.
Huntington Beach was opened fairly recently
and all these other ones here.
So some of the older ones, Burbank, Glendale.
I think San Bernardino, Fontana.
Yeah, so anyways.
This is just a cool thing I built
to show kind of where the supercharger growth is.
Then I wanted to actually map that out
because a map actually doesn't tell you a full story,
this whole concept of how maps work.
The actual geographic plotting of things
isn't really often what you want.
You wanna just break it down in like a simple bar chart.
So here you go.
So you can see basically over the past year
which cities have actually got the most stalls.
So you can see Thousand Oaks got 44 new stalls.
Baker got 40.
Kettleman City got 40,
if you guys remember that big one they opened.
I think that's the one with the cafe as well.
And so yeah.
So this was all really cool stuff
and I really enjoyed putting this together.
I'll put a link to this if you guys
wanna kind of explore that.
Then the reason I kinda did it was
because I wanted to see what's going on with San Diego.
Lo and behold, there are no new stalls
or stations in San Diego,
that is until this past Friday.
So this past Friday in downtown San Diego,
they had an unveiling for the latest supercharger
here in the southern or in San Diego region.
It's actually the only the second one.
It has 16 stalls.
I went to the event and I was able to
record the Tesla rep talking about it.
So here is the Tesla rep at the San Diego
supercharger unveiling this last Friday
sharing some details and insights
into kind of what's going on.
I think this is pretty fun.
So let me switch over, cue up that video now.
(audience applauding)
- Oh, you're too much.
Sorry, hold it back.
(audience laughing)
Yes, my name is David Anderson,
and I'm the Regional Manager for
Charging Infrastructure for California.
California is actually our largest market for Tesla
and our most important for superchargers.
This is a huge, huge investment for us
and a lot to be celebrated.
Not only is this our latest supercharger,
but this puts us just over the 1,000 mark
for superchargers throughout all of California.
And as Christine has shared,
our first urban supercharger in San Diego.
This project would not have been possible
without the support of many critical stakeholders,
including Christine, Mark, and Jennifer fru-eh-mes,
Chris Ward, who's supporting electrification
and sustainability.
Council member, thank you so much for being here.
I know Betsy, I think you are here--
- [Betsy] Here.
- From the downtown San Diego,
there you are, nice to meet you.
Downtown San Diego Project.
Our partners with SDG&E for helping us
turn on the energy in time (mumbles).
I thank you so much for your partnership
and for your continued partnership.
And then a huge shout out to my Tesla team.
It takes a village to build these
and over the course of time,
we've really ramped up our staffing to ensure
that we were building the infrastructure
that our current and our future customers deserve.
So a big shout out to them.
So with that, Tesla's mission.
We are dedicated to accelerating the world's future
to sustainable energy and that's through electrification
of our transportation system.
So it's extremely important
so that our customers can charge easily,
and this supercharger station is an example of that.
For many customers,
the easiest and the fastest
and the most convenient way to charge is actually at home,
pulling your car in overnight,
but you have to complement that with
these stations which we have built
many along great highways throughout the entire country
and along throughout California.
We're now complementing that with our urban strategy
and this is an example of our first
in the Greater San Diego market.
So as part of our obligation to our customers,
we're trying to build these where they're going
and make sure that they have
the greatest experience possible.
So we're putting urban stations where people are going.
So your shopping centers, your supermarkets,
your downtown locations,
and we wanna make sure that it coincides with their life.
so that it's built in and owning an EV
is as easy as owning any other car, if not better.
On top of that, when they charge,
whether it's at this urban station
or any of our kind of A-to-B routes,
it'll be the same price and are cheaper than gasoline,
and zero emissions.
So if you can see, we have a new post design
for our urban models.
So they are smaller,
they're ideal for dense congestion areas,
and they can serve a high volume of cars,
and they deliver consistent 72 kilowatt
of dedicated power to each car.
So for those Tesla owners that are
aware of our 120-kilowatt model,
that has to power share.
This is dedicated power.
So it's consistently delivering,
getting you on the road at an average of 30 to 45 minutes.
It's still delivering around 300 miles an hour of charging.
So you're gonna fill up quick,
but you're gonna have a really good experience.
So we wanna continue to expand our network
and provide our owners and future owners
the experience that they deserve.
We're making a huge investment in San Diego.
We have over 300 employees
that are part of the Tesla family who live in San Diego.
We also have our store over at Fashion Valley.
To complement this station, we have one other station,
and we have, well, some really big plans.
We have in the next 12 months, to meet the demand,
we're gonna be opening 10 more stations
and about 150 more supercharger stalls
in the Greater San Diego area.
(audience applauding)
So you'll see us in Carlsbad, in Delmar, Escondido, Vista,
and many, many others in and around San Diego
'cause San Diego is actually
our fifth highest concentration of Model 3
reservations in the entire country.
So we are stepping up.
We are really investing in this area.
We started with building a team,
well, it's led to building the sites,
and you got at least 10 more coming in the next year.
So we're here for you, we're dedicated to you,
and we really, really appreciate your support,
and thank you for being with us along this ride.
So it's the most exciting time to be an EV owner,
especially a Tesla owner.
We really, really appreciate your partnership.
So thank you very much.
Christine?
- Okay, so that was cool.
Thank you Nathan and team.
I think you guys are doing a fantastic job.
I can't wait.
Just to recap, if you guys missed any of those bits,
in San Diego, the region of San Diego,
we're gonna have 10 new sites and 150 stalls.
So maybe that's around 15 each.
That's all within the next 12 months.
This new charger here is 16 of the urban stalls
and so that effectively more than doubled
what we had previously had in San Diego.
These are the 72 kilowatt speeds, not the 120,
but as they say a dedicated 72.
So it should be more consistent.
It's not as shared.
And that San Diego,
the fifth largest city with the most Model 3 reservations,
and then they have 300 employees in San Diego.
So San Diego is a Tesla town, man.
I mean you probably have San Francisco, number one,
LA, number two,
and probably San Diego, number three, overall.
So yeah, all good stuff.
I can't wait to have these just kind of everywhere
because for a lot of folks
this is kind of a necessary way to charge.