14 DAY TRIAL // Automaker company Tesla Motors, Inc. has recently announced that Model S owners in the United States can now travel from one side of the country to the other for free.
Thus, CEO and Co-Founder Elon Musk took to Twitter to let people know that the coast-to-coast section of the Supercharger network that the company was working on developing in the United States had been completed.
Otherwise put, traveling from the Atlantic coast all the way to the Pacific one, and relying solely on Supercharger stations for power, is now doable.
“Tesla Supercharger network now energized from New York to LA, both coasts + Texas!” Elon Musk wrote on Twitter, as cited by Oil Price.
The automaker company details that, for the time being, there are 71 Supercharger stations up and running in the United States. Their location is detailed in the picture next to this article.
What's more, specialists working with Tesla estimate that about 80% of the country's population can use them, provided that they own a Model S.
The company hopes that, in the months to come, it will manage to further expand its Supercharger network, and make such stations accessible to 98% of the country's residents.
On its website, the automaker details that the stations all sit close to major intersections, and have restaurants, shopping malls, and the like in their proximity.
It says that is has purposely chose to build them in such areas to make sure that Model S owners have something to do during the 30 minutes it takes for their car to suck in as much electricity as it needs to cover some 170 miles (273.5 kilometers).
According to Mercury News, the first person known to use the Supercharger network to travel from one part of the United States to the other is a man named John Glenney, who was accompanied on his journey by his daughter, Jill.
In a phone interview, the retired biochemistry professor said that, “Electric cars are normal; they are not oddities,” and added that, “I feel like I've made my own contribution to the movement of getting off of fossil fuels.”