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Tesla owners pick 36 new Supercharger sites in the latest vote, but a win can take years to become a charger5:23

Tesla owners pick 36 new Supercharger sites in the latest vote, but a win can take years to become a charger

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Tesla named 36 owner-voted Supercharger locations on October 28, from Cannon Beach to Lossiemouth, and opened a new voting round. Here is where they are, how voting works and why winners do not open overnight.

Tesla has named 36 new Supercharger locations chosen by its owners. Tesla Charging posted the winners of its latest Supercharger voting round on Wednesday, October 28, and opened a new round straight away. Of the 36 sites, 17 are in the United States, 1 is in Canada and 18 are spread across Europe, Asia, Turkey and Latin America, including two in the UK. But winning a vote is not the same as getting a charger, and some earlier winners have taken years to open.

Where are the 36 winning locations?

Mostly in smaller towns and holiday areas, not big cities. The list reads like a road-trip map. In the US the winners are:

  • West: Clarkdale (Arizona), Ramona (California), Grand Lake (Colorado), Sandpoint (Idaho), Cannon Beach (Oregon), Hanksville (Utah) and Pinedale (Wyoming).
  • South: Eureka Springs (Arkansas), Jupiter (Florida), Dawsonville (Georgia), Owensboro (Kentucky), Banner Elk (North Carolina), Eufaula (Oklahoma) and Marble Falls (Texas).
  • North and East: Ogemaw Township (Michigan), Keene (New Hampshire) and Morristown (New Jersey).

Canada gets one: Sainte-Anne-des-Monts on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. In the UK, owners picked Lossiemouth on the Scottish coast and Puddletown in Dorset. The other European winners are Tábor (Czech Republic), Tripótamos (Greece), Dunaújváros (Hungary), Agrigento (Italy), Bydgoszcz (Poland), Abrantes (Portugal), Arad (Romania) and Biljaca (Serbia). In Asia the list has Miyazu (Japan), Genting Sempah (Malaysia), Eumnae-ri (South Korea), Nantou (Taiwan) and Phrae (Thailand), plus Kulu in Turkey, Doradal in Colombia and Corregidora in Mexico. These places did not end up on the list by chance: owners voted them there.

So how does Supercharger voting work?

Every Tesla account holder gets five votes per round. Tesla shows a map of proposed sites on its Supercharger voting page. You can spread your five votes over different locations, but you can give each location only one vote. Owners can also suggest places that are not on the map yet, which can then show up in a later round. Tesla has run the program since 2022, and a new round usually opens the moment the winners of the last one are announced. That happened again this week, although Tesla has not said when the new round closes. A win in the vote, however, is only the start of the process.

Why can a winning site take years to open?

Because Tesla still has to find the land, the power and the permits. A vote tells Tesla where drivers want to charge, but it does not hand Tesla a site. It still needs a landowner willing to host the stalls, a grid connection strong enough for fast charging and approval from local authorities. Each of those steps can stall a project. That is why exact addresses are not announced with the winners. Recent openings show how long the road can be. In mid-October Tesla opened a 12-stall Supercharger in Key West, Florida, marked as a "Voting Winner Site", and earlier that month an 8-stall site in Iași, Romania, carried the same label. Tesla also flagged a finished voting-winner site in Cherokee, North Carolina. Some of these wins date back several rounds. Even so, the list itself says something useful about the network.

What do the winners say about the network?

That drivers now want chargers where the network is still thin. Most of the 36 winners are small towns, coastal spots or gateways to nature, such as Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast, Grand Lake next to Rocky Mountain National Park, or remote Hanksville in Utah. Big cities are mostly missing. That fits a network that already covers the main highways and metro areas well, but still has gaps on the routes people drive on holiday. The mix is also close to the previous round in August, which had 36 winners too: 16 in the US, 3 in Canada and 10 in Europe. This time the US gets one more and Canada two fewer. For owners who live near a gap, the new round is the next chance to be heard.

What should we watch for next?

Openings marked as "Voting Winner Site", and the next list of winners. Here is what to keep an eye on:

  • Construction news: Tesla Charging usually posts new sites on X, with the voting-winner label when it applies.
  • The current round: voting is open now on Tesla's website, with five votes per account.
  • Next winners: recent rounds have ended every few months, so the next batch is likely in early 2027, but Tesla has not given a date.

If one of the 36 towns is on your route, do not plan around it yet. Until Tesla puts a site on its map as open or coming soon, a win is a wish list, not a promise.

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