Driving cross-country just got a whole lot easier for some Tesla owners.
Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter early Sunday to announce that his company’s network of Supercharger quick-charging stations has expanded coast to coast in the United States. This means Tesla Model S owners can now travel from New York City to Los Angeles for free, since the company doesn’t charge its customers for the electricity used to recharge their vehicles at these stations.
Currently, Tesla’s Supercharger network is geographically accessible to 80 percent of the U.S. population, though the company says it hopes to expand its network of Supercharger stations — which can fully charge the car’s battery in 75 minutes — to 98 percent of the population by 2015.
