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Tesla reveals Q4 Supercharger winners, opens next voting round

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Tesla has revealed the latest locations to win its Supercharger voting round for the final quarter of the year, along with opening votes for the voting round.

The company’s charging account posted about the news on X, noting that its winners for the Q4 Supercharger voting round had been named and added to the company’s website. Tesla has also opened its latest three-month round of voting, and you can cast your vote on previously proposed sites on the company’s website here.

The top-voted site in Q4 was in Warsaw, Poland, along with a handful of others that are now indicated on Tesla’s Find Us page with a gold trophy icon and the term “in development” for said sites. Tesla announced its Q3 Supercharger voting round winners in September, after initially launching these vote cycles in 2022.

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Tesla Supercharger voting winners in the U.S. for Q4 2024

  • Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.
  • Clermont, Florida, U.S.
  • Taos, New Mexico, U.S.
  • Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S.
  • Cody, Wyoming, U.S.

Tesla Supercharger voting winners in Canada for Q4 2024

  • Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada
  • Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
  • Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
  • Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada

Tesla Supercharger voting winners in Europe for Q4 2024

  • Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • Liberec, Czech Republic
  • Taranto, Italy
  • Warsaw South, Poland

Tesla Supercharger voting winners in Asia-Pacific for Q4 2024

  • Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia
  • Hakuba Village, Japan
  • Gwacheon, Seoul, South Korea

Tesla’s Supercharger improvements rolling out, NACS access

Tesla has been rolling out improvements to the Supercharger network throughout this year, and North American Charging Director Max de Zegher recently outlined some of the company’s specific goals in doing so as access rolls out to non-Tesla electric vehicles (EVs). These include making stall availability even more accurate, boosting the number of long Supercharging cables, modifying stations to help non-Tesla EVs avoid blocking stalls, and encouraging manufacturers to put their charging ports on the rear left or front right of their upcoming vehicles.

On Monday, Tesla and Hyundai also announced that the 2025 Ioniq 5 will become the first EV to be able to charge at the Superchargers with a native NACS charging port, while the company’s existing vehicles with the CCS charger are set to get an adapter in early 2025. Owners of Nissan’s Ariya EV also gained access to the charging network earlier this month, as Tesla slowly opens its chargers to automakers across the industry.

What are your thoughts? Did I miss any of the Q4 Supercharger winners? Let me know at zach@teslarati.com, find me on X at @zacharyvisconti, or send us tips at tips@teslarati.com.

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Zach is a renewable energy reporter who has been covering electric vehicles since 2020. He grew up in Fremont, California, and he currently lives in Colorado. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, KRON4 San Francisco, FOX31 Denver, InsideEVs, CleanTechnica, and many other publications. When he isn't covering Tesla or other EV companies, you can find him writing and performing music, drinking a good cup of coffee, or hanging out with his cats, Banks and Freddie. Reach out at zach@teslarati.com, find him on X at @zacharyvisconti, or send us tips at tips@teslarati.com.

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SpaceX’s Starship just got filmed by its own cargo

SpaceX released new footage of Starship in space captured by the Starlink satellites it deployed.

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SpaceX released a new video Friday evening showing Starship from an angle showcased by its own Starlink satellites, watching the rocket drift away in orbit.

The 65 second clip, posted on X, stitches together footage from four cameras mounted on a single Starlink V3 satellite. It opens with a close view of Starship’s 171 foot upper stage, still catching sunlight, then pulls back as the two spacecraft separate.

The footage comes from Starship’s 13th flight test, which launched July 24 from Starbase after a scrubbed attempt and an abort caused by an engine issue the week before. When Flight 13 finally flew, it carried the first batch of functional Starlink V3 satellites Starship has ever deployed, twenty of them, with six equipped with cameras meant to scan the ship’s heat shield during reentry.

Flight 13 checked most of its boxes. Starship deployed all 20 satellites, relit a Raptor engine in space, and splashed down softly in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. Musk’s longer term plan calls for a Starlink V3 constellation of 100,000 satellites, according to a recent FCC filing, with Starship as the only vehicle capable of launching them at the volume that requires. Each Starship flight is designed to carry up to 60 V3 satellites once the vehicle reaches routine service, well beyond what Falcon 9 can carry in a single mission.

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Starship is next expected to fly with an attempt at catching the ship itself with the launch tower’s mechanical arms, a maneuver SpaceX has so far reserved for the Super Heavy booster.

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Tesla Model Y L’s new features flexed at unveiling event at Diner

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Tesla flexed the new features of the Model Y L with a dedicated media event at the company’s Diner on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.

The Model Y L is the extended-wheelbase version of the all-electric crossover, which has been voted the best-selling car in the world on three occasions. The vehicle is already rolling off production lines at Gigafactory Texas, and first deliveries are slated to take place later this year.

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Teslarati was invited to the event, but due to some scheduling conflicts, we could not make it to Los Angeles. Instead, we will have our hands on a media unit sometime in August, so we’ll be able to spend some more extended time with the Model Y L.

However, plenty of those who made it to LA shared some cool features that set the Model Y L apart from the Model Y.

Multi-Row Climate Control

Tesla fitted the Model Y L with full climate control on all three rows on the front screen. It can be adjusted by selecting which row you’d like to modify on the right-hand side of the touch screen:

Better Rear Window Visibility

One of the strangest things about the Model Y, especially the Juniper iteration, is the rear window has extremely limited visibility when looking into the rearview mirror.

Tesla has improved upon this with the Model Y L:

PowerShare will be included

Model Y L will come with PowerShare in North America, with an 11.5kW output to your home. Tesla said it would require Powerwall 3 for operation.

Wireless Charging Pad

There has been some speculation that Tesla would upgrade the wireless charging pads in the United States, but this is not the case.

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Tesla confirmed that it does not come with the cooled pads as the Y L in China does. This is because North America has not adopted Qi charging yet.

Thermal Management Improvements

These improvements in the Model Y L were seen with thermal management:

  • Up to 15% faster cabin cooling
  • +23% thermal efficiency gained in hot weather, 7 miles of real-world range gained
  • 8x more solar energy reflection off of glass roof
  • 30% reduction in solar energy entering the cabin

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Tesla said the Model Y L is almost sold out in the U.S. It comes with

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  • 1 year of FSD Supervised
  • 1 year of Supercharging
  • 1 year of Premium Connectivity
  • Free exterior paint color, interior, and wheel option at no additional cost
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk denies ridiculous Gigafactory Shanghai rumor

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to his social media platform X on Thursday night to deny a ridiculous rumor regarding the sale of the company’s Chinese vehicle production plant, Gigafactory Shanghai.

On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, claimed in a scathing new report that Tesla was exploring a potential sale of the entire China business in an effort to help bolster a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla.

Musk immediately denied the rumor not once but twice, initially calling it “fake news,” and then calling it “absurdly fake news” in a separate post just a few moments later:

The original poster of the Wall Street Journal article that Musk saw deleted the initial post sharing the headline and the rumored sale of Tesla’s China business.

The report seemed absolutely and unequivocally false to begin with; Tesla’s business in China is among the most important pieces of the company’s business. Not only does the factory supply vehicles for the domestic market, but also for various other markets in Asia and Europe.

China is also one of the largest automotive markets in the world, and Tesla has performed well there despite the robust competition.

The speculation regarding a Tesla and SpaceX merger has started to gain steam this year as the space exploration company went public just a month ago. There has been speculation that Musk will bridge all of his companies under one “umbrella company,” and analysts believe this could happen before the end of the decade.

The Tesla and SpaceX merger everyone is talking about is quietly building

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This is the latest iteration of Musk’s very evident war on mainstream media. Reports regarding any of Musk’s companies are quick to get the dreaded “false” or “fake news” response from the CEO when they are unfounded.

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