top of the news today elon musk tesla ceo just launched its new v4 supercharger this supercharger
which has a charge rate of 300 to 350 kilowatts could see many electric powered vehicles get
charged to full in less than an hour gone are the days when you spend a lot of time getting your car
charged stay tuned as we go into how the magic of a supercharger gets started hello everyone welcome
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to miss any of our upcoming videos over the last decades the automotive industry has embarked on a
historical transition from gas power to electric powered cars in the early days people doubted if
it would ever gain popularity and acceptance among the people but presently more and more people have
begun to replace their gas-powered vehicles with electric ones with the positive acceptance among
people across the globe providing a fast charging technology for electric powered cars became
crucial to automotive companies the need for a fast charger has prompted the world's richest man
and tesla ceo elon musk and many automotive companies to invest millions of dollars to
ensure fast charging infrastructure is available to millions of electric power vehicle owners
musk's tesla is one of the big names in the automotive industry that led the way in making
sure fast charging infrastructure is available everywhere and presently they have achieved quite
a lot the transition from gas powered cars to ev vehicles has grown significantly over the last
10 years tesla is presently the world's largest privately owned electric power vehicle company
that also operates many fast charging networks on different continents of the world the american
vehicle producing giant tesla operates a 480 volt direct current supercharging technology
system for their vehicles tesla launched the supercharging network on september 24 2012 and
the movement started with only six supercharger stations but today the tesla supercharger network
boasts over two thousand stations out of over 30 000 individual fast charging points worldwide
with that number it is safe to say tesla inc has the world's most significant number of
supercharger stations with over 1101 stations in north america 600 in europe and over 400 in asia
introducing supercharging is one of the many joys of many tesla users it is straightforward to use
and it also brought in a lot of new buyers who now believe that the electric vehicle is sustainable
after so many years the superchargers finally gave electric vehicle owners the capacity to travel
much like the gas powered car owners using a tesla supercharger is easy as mentioned earlier you plug
the charging station connector into your vehicle charging port immediately after the connector
is plugged in a flashing green led light on the charge port will indicate that the car is charging
while charging you don't have to wait for the duration of time needed for your vehicle to charge
instead you can grab some food or go shopping and you use tesla's mobile app installed on your phone
to keep track of the charging so you get to know immediately it is complete
tesla supercharger stations across the globe have a connector that supplies electrical power
at maximums of 72 kilowatt 150 kilowatt or 250 kilowatt the first version of the supercharger
was v1 followed by v2 and now we have v3 which was introduced in 2019 the v3 is the most advanced
version however recently there has been news about introducing the v4 supercharger the supercharger
would beat all the versions that have been produced in the past supercharging is exclusively
limited to tesla model s tesla model x tesla model 3 tesla model y and future products while some
tesla cars have free super charging for life some come with a discount of about 100 to 400 kilowatt
hours per year years after the introduction of superchargers in 2017 tesla announced a new phase
of supercharging called the urban superchargers it was deployed across small parking lots and
garages of urban areas in different cities across america but compared to the standard superchargers
it has a maximum power delivery of 72 kilowatts so each urban supercharger stall provides a dedicated
72 kilowatt capacity the v1 supercharger was the first version of supercharging introduced by tesla
it is like a home charger it is very slow that it may take up to eight hours before charging
your car to eighty percent after then the v2 has developed it is twice much faster than the v1
it has a changing speed of 150 kilowatts which can charge your car to 80 percent in about two hours
however in 2019 tesla introduced the v3 which is super fast and currently the most advanced version
of supercharger plans are already on the ground to roll out the v4 we will discuss the v4 later
in this video the v3 supercharger with the v3 supercharger at many supercharging stalls across
north america and europe more electric powered vehicle owners are now enjoying their ride with
tesla the v3 supercharger is the latest version by tesla it is classified differently from other
versions because of its two important features the ability to charge as fast as possible and
the cancellation of the power sharing among two cars at the charging booth v3 supercharger is
a powerful super charging system that generates its power from tesla solar panels and its power
pack batteries are available at the charging booth the v3 supercharger is a complete system
that generates energy and passes it along to many tesla vehicles daily to increase efficiency the v3
supercharger was equipped with slimmer and more flexible cables than the ones found in v1 and v2
superchargers the v3 supercharger is a 1mw power cabinet that supports peak rates of up to 250
kilowatts per car with a v3 supercharger a model 3 long range can get 75 miles of power in 5 minutes
and 1000 miles in one hour the capacity makes it faster than the v2 but not twice as faster as v2
which customers thought it would be in addition v3 supercharger improved tesla customers productivity
because it cut short the time customers spent charging by 50 which allowed many tesla users
to spend less time at the charging booth however the supercharger stations installed with the
v3 new power electronics are designed to enable tesla vehicle owners to charge as much as their
battery can take it also eliminates the previous process of splitting power with a vehicle next
to you in the stall unlike in v2 where you share power with other vehicles available at the booth
sharing power makes your car charge at half speed which in turn takes much of your time
to cap it all the v3 supercharger stations are designed with a built-in liquid coolant system
to ensure that the higher capacity charging booth does not overheat or catch fire
tesla's new v4 supercharger the v4 supercharger will not just have an increase in capacity than
the current v3 supercharger it will also have a more extensive and taller size than the v3
the v4 looks more physically taller than the existing v3 which is about 2 meters
the design details for the v4 were made public recently as part of the deployment preparations
for a new station in danvers massachusetts yes the v4 supercharger might look taller but it
is noticeable that it has an effortless design similar to the earlier versions of superchargers
after introducing the v3 in 2009 tesla began the race to improve its capacity as much as possible
tesla mentioned that the v4 supercharger a new generation would peak the charge rate
of 300 to 350 kilowatts also there are plans to integrate the ccs connector so that tesla
can expand its network to include non-tesla electric vehicles in north america as it did
in europe in the applications submitted by tesla they indicated both the supercharger v3 post and
the new post called alternative tesla supercharger post the automaker seems to be playing it safe by
submitting both designs in the hope that tesla could use the new design for the new station in
danvers if it is ready in a comparison of the two application designs it is noted that the shielded
cable in the post opening of v3 could not be found in the new design tipped to be the v4
however the cable appears to be much longer in the proposed v4 than it was in the v3 supercharger
additionally the new post is considerably higher and more significant than the old one overall the
v4 resembles tesla's urban supercharger which is tesla's most recent supercharger post found in
many parking lots and garages across north america with the new v4 introduced by elon musk's tesla we
could see the world's most advanced supercharger with the charge rate of 300 to 350 kilowatts
we could see a tesla car getting charged to its full capacity within 30 minutes the v4 would be
a great innovation and could see more people finally keying into electric power vehicles
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