Tesla leads the best way with regards to in-car journey planning expertise. On street journeys, it’s as simple as getting within the automobile, coming into a vacation spot and the journey planner contained in the automobile finds superb supercharging stops to get you there.
The one catch has been that they needed to be Tesla superchargers to look within the journey planner which might make some journeys a bit more difficult.
Now, Tesla has added a whole bunch of non-Tesla quick charging areas to its journey planner in Australia.
This was first shared by a Tesla and EV fanatic, 13arm13, on X, after seeing it seem in a Mannequin 3.
Now, many websites from different cost level operators like Chargefox, Evie Networks, BP Pulse and others are beginning to seem in Tesla’s in-car navigation system.
Sure! third get together chargers are actually within the @tesla nav, but it surely requires the 2024 nav replace.Our Mannequin 3 has the most recent nav, the Mannequin X doesn’t, each have 2024.2.2.1 fw pic.twitter.com/FZ3OKjqXPg
— ARM (@13arm13arm) February 8, 2024
By choosing the non-Tesla charging station within the journey planner, drivers can navigate to that non-Tesla charging station with ease.
On high of this, the battery pre-conditioning characteristic which permits for optimum fast-charging periods has additionally been verified to work.
That is fairly much like what Tesla automobiles at present do when navigating to a supercharger.
Sure! pic.twitter.com/pOhxYclV6G
— ARM (@13arm13arm) February 8, 2024
In Tesla’s proprietor handbook, Tesla explains the pre-conditioning characteristic for its journey planning system as:
“Through the use of Journey Planner (if accessible in your market area) to navigate to a Tesla charging location, [Tesla] Mannequin pre-heats the excessive voltage Battery to make sure once you arrive on the charger, the temperature of the Battery is perfect and able to cost. This reduces the period of time it takes to cost.”
The pricing of the non-Tesla chargers within the journey planners doesn’t seem within the navigation system drop down, but it surely does present the utmost rated energy of non-Tesla superchargers.
For Tesla superchargers, the variety of accessible chargers seems within the pin drop on the journey planner display. That is additionally lacking for non-Tesla chargers within the first launch.
The addition of non-Tesla chargers has been in use in a couple of international locations internationally, together with these in Europe. One Reddit person commented on the again of this information by saying: “Has been in Germany for a couple of years now.”
With over 70,000 Tesla automobiles on Australian roads, the addition of non-Tesla fast-charging areas will make road-tripping simpler for a lot of. This might additionally assist ease congestion at supercharger websites throughout busy vacation durations.
Riz is the founding father of carloop based mostly in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV knowledge, perception studies and tendencies. He’s a mechanical engineer who spent the primary 7 years of his profession constructing transport infrastructure earlier than beginning carloop. He has a ardour for automobiles, notably EVs and needs to assist cut back transport emissions in Australia. He at present drives a purple Tesla Mannequin 3.