supercharging Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:52:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Tesla’s Superchargers Could be Profitable, Despite Charging Being Free https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-superchargers-profitable-20140305/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-superchargers-profitable-20140305/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:51:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46313 Profitability has been the most important bottleneck that has been hampering large scale electric car manufacturing since forever. Tesla Motors (TSLA) found the perfect moment and strategy to start producing electric cars and is now offering Supercharging that is profitable for both the company and the end user. An analysis started from several assumptions of […]

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