Charging

Volvo and Tesla have expanded their charging partnership: from the fourth quarter of 2026, Volvo EV drivers in Europe will be able to find, start, and pay for sessions at more than 20,000 Tesla Superchargers across 29 countries directly inside the Volvo Cars app, removing the need to juggle a separate Tesla app.

Pod (formerly Pod Point, owned by EDF since August 2025) has acquired UK fleet charging specialist EO Charging out of administration in May 2026. The deal absorbs EO's depot-charging software platform and blue-chip fleet customers including Amazon, DHL and Tesco into the newly rebranded, services-focused Pod, consolidating the UK commercial fleet depot charging market under a single EDF-backed operator.

Tesla is opening a public beta of a software-based Virtual Queue for fully occupied Supercharger sites in the last week of May 2026, after nearly a year of internal testing at five high-traffic US sites. The first real-world capture shows the system works as intended but has no enforcement against line-cutting.

Tesla has released a Remote Meter accessory for the Wall Connector that monitors a home's full electrical load and throttles charging automatically to avoid tripping the main breaker — a feature aimed at older homes with limited service capacity.

A newly published Tesla patent application describes a charging adapter that mechanically locks itself to either the EV's inlet or the EVSE dock, hiding the release from the user — a direct response to the theft and disconnection problems that have followed the NACS transition.

Tesla has rolled out its interactive 3D Supercharger Site Maps to Canadian owners on 13 May 2026, joining the United States and parts of Europe. A team at Giga New York is mapping more than 300 new sites per week with full global coverage targeted by the end of 2026.

Tesla is testing a virtual waitlist for busy Superchargers at six pilot sites in California and New York. Drivers join a digital queue through the Tesla app, with the system also working for non-Tesla EVs that use the Tesla app.

Tesla is opening its heavy-truck charging network to non-Tesla HGVs across Europe and launching the smaller Basecharger to depot operators.

On April 21, 2026, CATL — Tesla's largest LFP battery supplier — unveiled its third-generation Shenxing pack, charging from 10 to 80 percent in 3 minutes 44 seconds and retaining over 90 percent capacity after 1,000 ultra-fast cycles, with a record 0.25 milliohm internal resistance.

Tesla has deployed a new machine-learning model that forecasts Supercharger queue lengths before drivers arrive. Trained on 9 million miles of anonymised trajectory data inside the geofences of global Supercharger sites, it cuts queue-estimate error rates and pairs with the new Virtual Queue feature in the Tesla app.

Tesla quietly added one year of free Supercharging to every new Model 3 Premium and Long Range Performance ordered in the United States from 24 April 2026. The first time the perk has touched the volume seller signals softening US demand for the Model 3 — and a watch-out for European pricing.

ABB E-mobility's new M-Series fast charger pools 200 kW to 1.2 MW across up to 24 dispensers, hits 625 kW per square meter and ships with CCS2, NACS and MCS as standard. First European installations are expected in Germany, the Netherlands and the Nordics in H2 2026.

Pacific Gas and Electric and Tesla announced on 20 April 2026 that the Cybertruck, Tesla Powershare Gateway, and Universal Wall Connector are approved for PG&E's residential Vehicle-to-Everything programme. It is the first AC-based V2G deployment in California and extends the grid-services capability Tesla launched in Texas in February 2026.

Tesla has launched a public Supercharger for Business calculator that reveals a standard 8-stall V4 site costs nearly $940,000, with payback periods ranging from 4 years in San Francisco to 7 years in Manhattan.

Prague's city council has approved 150 EV-ready street lamps this year, each capable of delivering 2×22 kW charging. The project is part of a plan to install 6,000 such lamps by 2030 to serve an expected 180,000 EVs on Prague streets.

Tesla's Supercharger network has passed 80,000 stalls globally, with V4 chargers delivering 500 kW now rolling out across Europe starting from the Netherlands.

Tesla produced its final V3 Supercharger cabinet at Gigafactory New York on 16 March 2026, ending a seven-year, 15,000-unit production run. All new installations and upgrades will use V4 hardware exclusively, rated at up to 1.2 MW with power sharing across eight dispensers at up to 500 kW per stall.

Tesla opened its first customer-facing Megacharger station in Ontario, California in early March 2026, located in the Inland Empire freight corridor near the I-10 and I-15 interchange. The station delivers up to 750 kW initially, with the network targeting 37 locations by end of 2026 and 46 by early 2027, including a partnership with Pilot truck stops.

Tesla published final production specifications for the Semi in February 2026: 800 kW from three independent rear-axle motors, Standard Range (325 miles) and Long Range (500 miles) variants, 1.2 MW fast charging via V4 Supercharger technology, and up to 60% range recovery in 30 minutes. Mass production is set to begin at Gigafactory Nevada in 2026.

Tesla's 2026.2 software update, released 22 January, introduces Child Left Alone Detection for the new Model Y, a door-handle trick for releasing frozen charge cables (2026.2.3), and quietly renames Autopilot to Self-Driving in the vehicle interface. 3D Supercharger maps also expand to European locations.

Tesla expanded MultiPass third-party charging to six European countries and reached 75,000 Superchargers worldwide, with over 14,000 across Europe now open to all EVs.

Tesla activated its first true V4 Supercharger station in California, offering 500 kW peak charging. The new cabinet architecture delivers three times the power density of V3 and supports up to eight stalls per unit.

Tesla reached the 70,000-Supercharger milestone at the end of June 2025, adding 10,000 new chargers in just eight months. Europe now hosts over 14,000 Superchargers across 30 countries, with V4 stations delivering up to 350 kW and 99% open to non-Tesla vehicles.

Tesla's European Supercharger network now spans 14,000 charging points across 1,100 sites in 30 countries, with a new pre-assembled V4 station in Estonia marking the first Baltic deployment.