VW is advising clients to be a bit of extra affected person with Tesla Supercharger entry, because it claims to be experiencing technical points.
The German model is the final one to provide Supercharger entry to its North American EV homeowners.
Tesla first introduced the opening of its Supercharger community to different electrical autos in 2021, however the rollout has been sluggish.
The automaker efficiently persuaded the remainder of the North American auto business to undertake its connector as the brand new commonplace. It struck offers with them to achieve entry to its Supercharger community, which is by far the most effective and most dependable fast-charging EV community in North America, thereby sweetening the deal.
Nonetheless, the transition wasn’t precisely clean.
Final 12 months, Elon Musk fired Tesla’s whole charging workforce, which had constructed the world’s greatest charging community, over a dispute with the workforce’s head. Tesla ended up having to rehire a few of the workers, and different automakers admitted that this slowed down the Supercharger integration course of.
Nonetheless, the combination began to be finalized this 12 months, with electrical autos from just about all different automakers now accessing most Tesla Superchargers in North America.
Nonetheless, there’s one massive exception: VW electrical autos, particularly the ID.4 and ID Buzz.
Final week, Porsche and Audi, that are each a part of the Volkswagen Group, introduced that their North American EV homeowners have now entry to the Supercharger community.
This led folks to consider that VW shouldn’t be too far behind.
VW has now commented on encountering “technical challenges” and has requested homeowners for his or her persistence. The German automaker nonetheless believes that entry ought to come by the top of the 12 months (by way of PC Magazine):
“Volkswagen appears ahead to creating it attainable for ID. Buzz and ID.4 automobile homeowners to achieve entry to the Tesla NACS Accomplice Superchargers. The timeline has been delayed by technical challenges, and we ask for purchasers’ persistence. We nonetheless count on to ship entry this 12 months.”
It’s unclear what these technical challenges are, however VW has been experiencing infamous software program points for years now.
Extra just lately, the corporate determined to companion with Rivian for help with the software program facet.
