Tesla is fixing Supercharger congestion with AI, long cables, and standardized port location

Tesla will be improving Supercharger wait times for all electric vehicles owners by increasing the availability of V4 piles with longer cables, improving its availability algorithm, and working on standardizing the charging port location of non-Tesla EVs.

In fact, in 18 months, Tesla plans to have more Superchargers with longer cables that run on the outside of the pile than of the older version with the short cable inside.

To date, Tesla says that it has "modified over 1,500 sites so that drivers never have to use more than 2 charging spaces to charge, increasing stall availability for all." Not only that, but it has introduced software improvements that can predict Supercharger availability with better accuracy than before.

We can detect when another EV, with a charge port located somewhere other than the rear left or front right, is plugged into a short-cable Supercharger stall. This update ensures no more overpromising of stall availability, so you can travel with confidence. We will continuously refine this algorithm to be as accurate as possible, including exact site mapping and faster refreshing of stall availability.

There is barely an EV brand that hasn't adopted Tesla's NACS charging standard now, and the increased number of Supercharger users that come with unorthodox charging port placement is making Tesla work towards standardization of said location.

"Since opening up the Supercharger network in Europe in 2021, we've encouraged car manufacturers to transition charge port locations to rear left or front right," tips Tesla.

About 10% of Tesla's Superchargers globally are of the latest V4 version, and more in Europe than in the US, so surpassing the number of piles with shorter cables would mean that Tesla plans to increase the availability of V4 Superchargers fivefold in 18 months. All of these measures should cumulatively increase availability and decrease Supercharger wait times.

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