Well, sort of.... as of about 1 week ago, less than 20 hours before Tesla held their "Investor Day" PR event, Tesla announced that 10 of their Supercharging sites across the country are now usable by Non-Tesla EV. 8 of these sites are in NY (manufacturing of the units is in NY) and 2 sites are in CA. The internet is totally losing their mind. Some Tesla owners believe that world is about to come to an end, they are wrong. Some CCS EV owners are not reading the fine print and are showing up at Tesla Superchargers all over the country, and are disappointed to find out this is a limited roll out.
This is a game changer for the EV industry for sure. First and most importantly, all Non-Tesla vehicles will soon have many more charging options as they move about the country, AND Tesla vehicles too will likely have nearly twice as many charging options as well by the end of 2024 (the current plan is to double the number of chargers in the US by then). This should honestly start to make people much less hesitant to buying an EVs. With this expansion, fueling up an EV is going to get even closer to the gas station experience, with options to charge an EV in just about every medium sized town and many exists off of our major highways.
My one concern as a Tesla stockholder, is that eventually (although we might be a year or more away from other companies producing EVs en mass), you don't have to buy a Tesla to have access to their superior charging infrastructure. We'll see how this impacts their vehicle sales longterm. I hope Tesla isn't under estimating how important access to their reliable charging infrastructure is to their vehicle sales. At least for the next couple of years thought, availability of non-Tesla EVs is a big issue as Tesla continues to grow their production facilities year over year. As of today, the wait time for a new Model Y has grown from 1-2 months to 2-4 months. Now is still a great time to consider the purchase of a Tesla with the EV tax rebates.
And one more thought. This is a super nerdy concept and tough to follow, but most EVs are on a 400V battery (high voltage) architecture, and a rare few are on 800V architectures. The Tesla Superchargers are designed primarily for 400V vehicles, and as such, there are several 800V based EVs that are seeing redicculously slow charging speeds because these vehicles have to use an on-board voltage converter to get the power to charge the battery, and many of those converters have power limitations (not really Tesla's problem). It is rumored that their next generation chargers will support up to 1000V architectures (and the Cybertruck might be 800-1000V). Why the difference you ask? Well, an 800V vehicle can generally be charged up faster. Here is a super nerdy video explaining the details if you are interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXm5CM1KqxM
