Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory now world’s largest charging hub
527 of the charging points are in the factory’s southern car park, with 226 of these being covered by a roof with PV modules contributing to the energy supply of the charging park. According to Tesla, the connected load can be up to one megawatt at its peak.
The AC charging points in question use Tesla’s Wall Connector with a charging capacity of 11 kW. These points alone should therefore have a potential charging capacity of 5,797 kW or around 5.8 MW. However, a load management system is deployed to reduce the charging capacity to 1 MW in total.
The AC charging points can be used free of charge by factory employees and visitors, as well as – in theory – any travellers passing through. However, anybody passing Giga Berlin on a longer journey is more likely to use the 19 V4 Superchargers with up to 250 kW charging power, which are intended for fast progress with shorter charging times.
However, unlike the AC charging points, the Superchargers are not free to use, with the usual tariff fees of €0.40/kWh applying for Teslas and other brands without a subscription paying €0.53/kWh.
The Supercharger site is accessible as a public charging station for electric cars of all brands, and most of the AC charging points are also free to use. As the local paper MOZ points out, signage at the site indicates that the first row of covered charging stations are reserved for Teslas, while all the others are ‘open to all types.
According to Electric Vehicles, Tesla reportedly put 2,200 Supercharger charging points into operation worldwide in Q1 of 2025. Tesla will not officially present its Q1 figures until 22 April. At the end of 2024, Tesla had 6,975 Supercharger locations with 65,495 charging points in operation worldwide – 17 or 19 per cent more than at the end of 2023.
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