EVwire brief: Tesla is building out a Megacharger network in the Southeast, as highlighted by the official Tesla Semi account’s announcement of new Megacharger sites between Atlanta and Savannah.
The two Georgia sites went live on back-to-back days this week. Conley, an eight-stall site just outside Atlanta, opened first, followed by a six-stall site at a Pilot travel center in Ellabell, near Savannah. Every stall at both locations is rated for up to 1.2 MW.
Tesla shared a map showing the two sites linked along I-16:
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This means that Semi operators can now charge at both ends of the Atlanta-to-Savannah route, and Tesla is signaling that Georgia is only the start of its Southeast buildout.
The quick pace fits the target Tesla set during its Semi rollout event in September. There, Lars Moravy, Tesla's VP of Vehicle Engineering, and Dan Priestley, Tesla's Semi Program Lead, said the company expects more than 30 Megacharger stations to be online in the US by year's end, with more than 200 MW-capable posts between them.
The map Tesla showed at the event includes several planned sites across the Southeast:
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Until this week, Tesla's public Megachargers sat in the West and Texas. The network's first public location opened in Bloomington, California, in July, and a second Southern California site followed in Vernon a month later, each with six 1.2 MW stalls. In September, Tesla started rolling out pre-assembled Megachargers, beginning with a site in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Partners are helping the network grow faster. Ellabell is the first of Pilot's Tesla Megacharger sites, with Tulare, California; Fort Stockton, Texas; and North Las Vegas, Nevada next in line among the 12 locations Pilot has under construction. Forum Mobility is also hosting Tesla-operated public Megachargers at three of its new California depots.
Up north, Tesla has signed a lease for a Semi charging site in Chehalis, Washington, and is scouting locations in Metro Detroit with DTE Energy.
Source: Tesla Semi on X
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