From retro diner to CyberCanopy: Tesla picks Roswell for new alien Supercharger station design

Tesla has more than one quirky Supercharger station design in the making, it seems. After its plans for a diner and drive-in movie theater leaked thanks to planning approval submittals, Tesla actually started work on the retro Supercharger station concept, and the diner is now nearing completion.

The same may happen to another, this time more futuristic design concept, that was just unearthed from the approval documents that Tesla submitted to the Roswell, New Mexico zoning authorities.

The sheer choice of Roswell for the site of this new Supercharger station design concept suggests that it could be something alien and futuristic, and the design sketches in the permit documents confirm this hunch.

"We want to build a few Superchargers cool enough to be worthy of the trip itself," tipped Tesla's Max de Zegher. "Wish we could have kept it under wraps for longer, but submittal was needed for Planning Approval," he continued, referring to the Supercharger station site documents that Tesla had filed way back in 2023.

It has now updated the site permit filings to include eight new V4 Supercharger stalls, and a CyberCanopy with LED light bar on the edges styled after the Cybertruck or Model Y fronts.

The original design sketches that feature a landing spaceship indicate where Tesla got its inspiration from - Roswell's alien crash site stories - though the final CyberCanopy design features an angular, Cybertruck-ish shape.

It still looks rather futuristic, with LED dome lights as if from a Star Trek Enterprise landing scene, and a hedgehog Easter egg thrown in for a good measure.

In any case, it seems that the CyberCanopy Supercharger station is indeed getting built and Tesla may soon have more charging places "worthy of the trip itself" like the retro diner.

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