Inside Modern Tesla Super Charger

I love that the Superchargers have a brake master cylinder with reservoir to keep their stopping distance minimized!

It’s a coolant reservoir. The charging cable is liquid cooled

Is that what it is? I'm sure they're using it as the reservoir for the coolant in this case, but that is interesting. No money wasted on developing a new part, just use an existing one.

It’s only true if supercharger stalls need to hit the brakes. Which could happen, but not all of them have wheels.

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They all need to hit the brakes. How else do you stop the electrons?

You can put it back on, just lift it into place

Where are the pixie dust reservoir and unicorn stables?

I don’t think you are supposed to do that sir !

Port St Lucie, FL?

The actual guts are in the big metal cabinets nearby.

Fort Lauderdale

Looks like Fort Pierce, FL right off of I-95S exit. Was there recently on my last X-country trip. So many V4s I couldn't believe it!

As opposed to an antique Tesla super charger

KISS 😘 The best engineering principle

Now show inside of the cabinet that actually does the work

It would have been cool to actually see inside

Yeh I was gonna say, I recognise this from going up to Cape Canaveral from Miami!

It is crazy how clean and simple it looks like

Well, not that crazy when you realize what it does. It cools the cable and not much more than that.

Managing and controlling charge rate, communication with server, and car, car identification, all safety features. Alot is happening there mate

Well most of what you just called out is software? Barely any hardware is needed for most of the stuff you mentioned.

Still think they should add a metal post to keep numptys from accidentally backing up into the charger. Exchanging a post would be much cheaper than having to repair a stall.

Some supercharger sites has this

Why use 4 LEDs?

Based on pictures i can find of the coolant bottles they use, it seems to be a dedicated design for the posts, at least some of it. And as they are making 100k+ of these things yearly. It wouldnt surprise me. While re-using is great. Having something perfectly fitting for the use case might be better.

Thank you. My first thought as well.

“The best designed part, is no part”

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