Tesla opens 168-stall Supercharger station, with solar farm and big batteries

Last week, The Driven reported on Tesla opening its latest Supercharger station in Australia, which features the country’s largest solar canopy to with an 80 kW solar array.

Now, the company has shared news of a behemoth site in the US, with 11 MW of solar array – both in the solar canopy and a neighbouring solar farm, along with 10 Tesla Megapack batteries. So far, 84 stalls of supercharging are open to the public in Lost Hills, California.

The site is located on Interstate 5 between San Francisco & Los Angeles, which, according to Tesla, is one of the busiest EV corridors in the world.

This site is expected to eventually have up to 168 V4 supercharger stalls when fully commissioned, making it one of the biggest charging sites in the world.

On Tesla Charging’s X page, the company shared the opening of the new site, which took around 8 months to complete, just in time for the Fourth of July holidays when tens of thousands of EVs are expected to be on the move.

On Tesla’s website, the site can be accessed between 10 am and 8 pm every day with base rate charging for EVs set art $US0.62 per kWh. It’s also open to all EVs that can charge using a NACS (North America Charging Standard) plug.

It also shows that each of the V4 supercharger stalls are rated at 325 kW, although the charging speeds at each stall may vary.

A breakdown of what’s on the ground was also shared by EV news aggregator Sawyerr Merritt on X, which highlights that the site is on 30 acres of land.

12 of the 84 stalls are pull-through which means EV drivers towing trailers, caravans, or boats won’t need to unhitch before charging.

The remainder of the 168 stalls will open later this year, ahead of the Christmas holidays in December.

According to Max de Zegher, who heads up charging at Tesla, the site is initially running off a 1.5 MW feed but is expected to expand with grid capacity availability and site charging demand.

The opening of this site comes only days after the company announced that it had installed its 70,000th supercharger stall globally with the opening of its new 12-stall site in Burleson, Texas.

That news came just 8 months after the company rolled out its 60,000th supercharger stall, which was located in Enshu Morimachi, Japan, in 2024.

With EV adoption at an all-time high, it’s great to see Tesla continuing to expand the world’s most reliable fast charging network. 

The expansion is also continuing here in Australia with new sites opening every month, alongside expansion and upgrades to existing sites. That’s also going to provide confidence to current and future EV owners to make the switch to cleaner EVs sooner.