Inside a Tesla Supercharger.

That's just the stall.

Colloquially known as a supercharger. But yes, that's basically a glorified cable + some vehicle identification logic (iirc). The DC comes from the big white boxes near by that turn the grid power into HVDC.

What's the unit in the base? Super duper capacitor?

Water cooling radiator for the cable

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Man this really takes the magic away

I thought that was a damn PS3 at the bottom! Clearly this charger had YLOD.

It's just a photo, I don't think anyone was expecting anything, boo

There is no caption to go with the photo, maybe OP just saw it and we were always curious why supercharge is so fast. So a little autonomy for the inside look. Doubt OP expected anything.

Interesting that they use individual leds in the shape of each letter for the Tesla badge

They're going to let all the electrons out!

"Made on Earth by humans."

Well, superchargers are supposed to be powered by pixie dust. I would have assumed the base would have contained a plant for turning pixies into dust.

I thought there was a micro-nuke plant inside!

Where do they keep the orphan heart that powers it?

The radiator for the water cooled cable

Sort of interesting how thick that bundle of cables coming out of the ground is, just to feed power to that one charging cable.

Robust things are simple. (And simple things are elegant)

[Here’s a few more](https://imgur.com/a/PmnNcli)

Every. Time.

It's the sheath you see, not the wire size.

Cant they put a wind turbine in the hole so it can feed back to the grid lol

It looks pretty bad, like a failed DIY project.

Seems dangerous having all that wiring exposed. Hopefully someone's there to cordon the area off.

With the combined energy generated from that method across a whole array of 12 charging stalls. Along with the average wind you get in a parking lot. This might actually generate enough electricity to charge an IPhone 6 to 100% in a day

It's not as much individual LEDs, as it is omitting the useless LEDs where there's just white plastic in front of them.

The wires are pretty beefy, too. That way, they don't need to be liquid-cooled. In the ground, it's no problem that they are very stiff and heavy.

Dangerous because it'll get stolen ? It's not powered unless it's plugged into a vehicle or something is extremely wrong.

FYI this is called dispenser