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Charging

Unconfirmed charging reports — network plans and pricing leaks, sourced and rated.

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Tesla's Energy and Charging Chief Mike Snyder Steps Down, WSJ Reports

Mike Snyder, who has run Tesla's Megapack, Powerwall and Supercharger businesses as one organisation since October 2024, has stepped down, the Wall Street Journal reported on 15 October 2026. AJ Booth, senior director of energy products engineering, is to succeed him. Tesla has not confirmed the change. Its third-quarter results follow on 21 October.

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Tesla App Code Points to a Charge on Solar Floor That Tops Up From the Grid

Decompiled strings in Tesla app 4.60.5 describe a minimum commute floor for Charge on Solar — the car would draw just enough grid power to hit a daily driving target when the sun falls short, then go back to waiting for excess solar. Related strings cover outage handling for third-party smart breakers and staged overload warnings for Powershare vehicles backing up a home with Powerwall. Tesla has confirmed none of it.

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Rivian Told Some R2 Owners to Stop Fast Charging. There Is No Recall.

Rivian is telling select R2 owners to pause DC fast charging while it inspects a gap at the DC connector-to-header joint for thermal abnormalities. No vehicle count, VIN list or NHTSA filing has been published — and the Model Y rival reaches Tesla Superchargers on a native NACS port.

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Tesla's Austin Robotaxi Depot Asks for 48 Superchargers Now and 80 Wireless Bays Later

Permit filings for 405 E. St. Elmo Road in Austin describe a two-phase robotaxi charging depot: 48 V4 Supercharger posts on 12 V3.5 cabinets first, then equipment to support 80 wireless chargers. It would be the largest sign yet that Tesla intends its driverless fleet to charge without anyone plugging anything in.

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Tesla Is Building a 64-Stall Supercharger in Queens, Its Biggest on the East Coast

Tesla is constructing a 64-stall Supercharger in Maspeth, Queens, which would be the largest station on the US East Coast — matching the 68-stall site in Halifax, North Carolina depending on the final count. Two stalls are pull-through for cars with trailers, and it lands in a city where Manhattan itself has only five small Supercharger sites.

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A Non-Tesla Was Recorded at 257 kW on a Supercharger. European Teslas Stop at 250.

Photographs posted to X show a European Zeekr X drawing 257.2 kW at a Tesla Supercharger, above the roughly 200 kW other brands are normally held to and above the 250 kW peak of Tesla's own European cars. The reading also exceeds Zeekr's own published maximum, and Tesla has confirmed nothing, so treat the number as unverified.