Elon Musk released an impressive chart of the impact of the pandemic on Tesla Supercharger use over the last few months.<\/p>\n
With stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions being put in place in many markets, gasoline sales are way down.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, electric car charging station usage is also way down.<\/p>\n
Musk decided to release an interesting chart of the usage of Teslas Supercharger network in different regions over the pandemic.<\/p>\n
The chart shows that Teslas Supercharger network in China saw a massive reduction in use in late January through February:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Interestingly, the chart shows a V shape recovery in Supercharger usage in China and a second wave of slower use in April.<\/p>\n
In comparison, restrictions in Europe and North America happened about a month later, resulting in a similar rapid drop in Tesla Supercharger usage, but the recovery has been different.<\/p>\n
It is a much slower recovery as restrictions are slowly being lifted in some North American and European markets.<\/p>\n
Most interestingly, the Asia Pacific, which in this case excludes China, saw only a small drop in February, and it was not only back to normal but kept hitting new highs.<\/p>\n
Its important to note that for most Tesla owners, Superchargers are not the main way for them to charge their cars.<\/p>\n
Most owners charge their vehicles at home and only periodically charge at Supercharger stations mainly to travel longer distances, like road trips.<\/p>\n
This is really interesting.<\/p>\n
Of course, this pandemic is a much more complex issue than anything that can be explained by a Supercharger usage chart, but its still interesting data.<\/p>\n
Its insane how quickly Supercharger usage recovered in China compared to what is happening in Europe and in North America.<\/p>\n
But thats not as impressive as APAC though without China, I assume that it mainly consists of Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, and those have been smaller markets for Tesla.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, the small slowdown in usage seems to indicate a significantly different impact than in the other markets.<\/p>\n
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