Talk:List of Tesla superchargers

Proposed deletion

While I do not think that this article has met its full potential yet, I think that it should be spared because it is valuable information about clean technology. I plan to make articles about all the supercharging stations and some information about each. Wikipedia has Wikiproject:Highways and Wikiproject:US Roads, ect. I plan to make something similar to there typical highway article.

Yonikasz (talk) 02:25, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

As stated in the prod, WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:NOTGUIDE. Separate pages on each station would definitely be excessive and not appropriate for Wikipedia. You don't see pages or lists of every Exxon, Chevron, or Shell gas station in existence on Wikipedia... those would be deleted for the same reason. -- Bovineone (talk) 02:34, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

I understand that, but what about Electric vehicle network it has information about electric vehicle networks. How should I implement that data? Yonikasz (talk) 03:49, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

That page shows just aggregated statistics (the number of stations of each network) that are present in a country, and doesn't go into specific details about each and every station. Aggregated statistics at a country/region level would indeed be appropriate for wikipedia on that Electric vehicle network page. Notably, the Tesla sections for almost all states are missing from the table on Electric_vehicle_network#United_States_of_America. It would probably also be acceptable to add a small table to Tesla_Motors#Supercharger_network that summarizes the number of superchargers per country. -- Bovineone (talk) 18:46, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

My plans are to make something similar to List of Interstate Highways on Wikipedia. Do you know how I could do that? Yonikasz (talk) 23:39, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Although I applaud your enthusiasm, I would recommend you spend your energy on updating the existing Electric vehicle network for all of the countries/states that are currently missing mention of the Tesla Superchargers, rather than working on another page that will just fall behind and never be updated (or potentially get deleted entirely). Updating that page to better represent the current size of the Tesla network relative to others would be the best way to spread awareness of Tesla, rather than creating a new wiki page that has no parity with any other charging network. -- Bovineone (talk) 03:29, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

I think this is a painful issue. All Teslas have onboard navigation, and common users can just source the daily updated and better design http://www.supercharge.info . this article, however, is a pain to edit, navigate, and use. I don't think it is much help. Also, except for 2 or 3 locations, all SCs are 24/7. Also, there is no "Updated at…" time stamp allowing users to know how old the info is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.212.158 (talk) 00:09, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

I don't see what extra information this page provides over the http://www.supercharge.info page. And there are entries that seem unhelpful / misleading like "Las Vegas | Las Vegas". And a page of "that have solar panels" seems even less useful.

peterl (talk) 02:44, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

I agree that this page has information that is available already at other locations. However, this page could be converted to a more limited list, like a list of tesla superchargers that have solar panel installations. I have not found this information in a single list elsewhere, but the information exists in photos at Teslarati.com and in google street views. Just a thought. PaulShanks ^talk 23:48, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Changes

This list could be made more efficient. Some entries do not seem to use full page width, so they occupy more than one line. Most stations are 24/7 and could state so using "24/7" or "✓" (checkmark) in a column; those that are not could remain as is. TGCP (talk) 22:47, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Future of this page

It seems this page pretty much duplicates both what is on the official Tesla site, as well as http://supercharge.info - which is the definitive community built Supercharger resource. It seems to be well out of date compared to these other sites.

Perhaps this page would be better used as an article *about* the Tesla Supercharger network in general, rather than a list, with a change of name to suit (such as Tesla Supercharger).

Secondary thought - I'd like to see the data, either on the Tesla Motors or supercharge.info sites, connect into Wikidata somehow. Then information about each site (opening date, number of bays, etc.) can be pulled directly in from the source website(s). In the future, a table which is dynamically updated from Wikidata could be included in this article. But my Wikidata knowledge is rather sparse at the moment, so that might be best left for another day. -- Chuq (talk) 11:08, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

I came to this page to because the list on the official Tesla site does not include information about which sites have solar panel installations. That could be easily added to this page, mainly using the photos from Teslarati or google street view. PaulShanks ^talk 23:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Not destination chargers

I see some destination chargers are slipping in. I'll remove them. --Pmsyyz (talk) 11:54, 6 April 2016 (UTC)