Tesla has launched its new Oasis Supercharger, the long-promised evidence of the future, with a solar and off-grid batteries.
Early in the implementation of the SuperCharger network, Tesla promised to add solar panels and batteries to the supercharger stations, and CEO Elon Musk even said most stations would be able to operate off-grid.
While Tesla added solar and batteries to a few stations, the vast majority of them do not have their own power system or have only minimal sunbalcin.
Back in 2016, I asked Musk about this and he said it would now happen when Tesla had the “Pieces in place” with SuperCharger V3, PowerPack V2 and SolarCity:
All of these pieces have been in place for years, and Tesla has now interrupted PowerPack in favor of megapack. The SuperCharger Network also switches to V4 stations.
Still, Solar and Battery Deployment have not accelerated much in the decade since Musk made that comment, but it finally happens.
Last year, Tesla announced a new project called ‘Oasis’, which consists of a new model Supercharger Station with a Solgård and battery storage that enables off-Grid operations in Lost Hills, California.
Tesla has now revealed the project and turned on most of the SuperCharger booths:
The project consists of 168 chargers, with half of them currently in operation, making it one of the largest supercharger stations in the world. However, it is not even the most notable aspect of it.
The station is equipped with 11 MW of soil-mounted solar panels and canopies spanning 30 hectares of soil and 10 Tesla Megapacks with a total energy storage capacity of 39 MWh.
It can be served off-grid, which is the case right now, according to Tesla.
With off-grid operations, Tesla was bringing 84 stalls online just in time for the fourth of July travel weekend. The rest of the stalls and a lounge open later in the year.
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This is great. A little late but amazing. This is how charging stations should be: fully powered by renewable energy.
Unfortunately, it will be much more difficult to open these stations in the future due to legislation that Trump and the Republican Party have just been adopted, removing incentives for solar and energy storage, adding taxes to them and removing incentives to build batteries – all things that have helped Tesla significantly in the last few years.
The United States is likely to have a few tough years for EV -adoption and implementation of renewable energy.
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