Hier de tekst in het earning call transcript over openstellen Supercharger voor derden.
Martin Viecha —
Senior Director for Investor Relations
Thank you. Let’s go to the second question from retail, which is, Elon has said that Tesla will be opening up the Supercharger network to other EVs later this year. Can you share more details on how this will be structured? Will this be select brands? Or will they contribute to the growth of the network?
Elon Musk —
Chief Executive Officer
We’re probably thinking of a real simple thing where you just download the Tesla app and you go to Supercharger and you just indicate which stall you are in. So you plug in your car, even if not Tesla, and then you just access the app and say, turn on this tall that I am in for how much electricity. And this would basically work with I think almost any manufacturer’s cars. There will be a time constraint. If the charge rate is super slow, then somebody will be charged more because the biggest constraint at the Superchargers is time, how occupied is the store. And it will also be smarter with how we charge for electricity at the Superchargers. So rush hour charging will be more expensive than of off-hour because there are times when the Superchargers are empty and times when they’re jam-packed. And so, it makes sense to have some time-based discrimination.
Andrew Baglino —
Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering
Yeah. We’ve been doing that, and that’s been working. And people respond — it helps with utilization.
Elon Musk —
Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, exactly So yeah, I think we’re — in Europe and China and most parts of the world, it’s the same connector for everyone. So this is a fairly easy thing to do, developed our own connector, which in my opinion is actually the best connector. It’s small and light and looks good, up to our standard. So an adapter is needed to work for EVs in North America, but people could buy this adapter. And we anticipate having it available at the Superchargers as well if people don’t sort of steal them or something.
Andrew Baglino —
Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering
We have a good solution for that.
Elon Musk —
Chief Executive Officer
Okay. But that’s a constraint on the North American thing. That’s basically a vestige of history. But I think we don’t emphasize that it is our goal is to support the advent of sustainable energy. It is not to create a walled garden and use that to bludgeon our competitors, which is sometimes used by some companies.
Andrew Baglino —
Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering
I think it’s also important to comment that increasing the utilization of the network actually reduces our costs, which allows us to lower charging prices for our customers and make the network more profitable, also to grow the network faster. That’s a good thing there. And no matter what, we’re going to continue to aggressively expand the network capacity, increasing charging speed, improving the trip planning tools to protect against site congestion using dynamic pricing, as Elon mentioned, and just continuing to focus on the minimum wait time for all customers.
Elon Musk —
Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. Obviously, in order for this to be — for the Supercharger to be useful to other car companies’ cars, we need to grow the network faster than we’re growing vehicle output, which is not easy. We’re growing vehicle output at hell of a rate. So Superchargers need to grow faster than vehicle output. This is a lot of work for the Supercharger team, but it is only useful in the grand scheme of things. Just only useful to the public if we’re able to grow faster than Tesla vehicle output. So, that is our goal.
Tesla, inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) Q2 2021 earnings call dated Jul. 26, 2021
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