Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged Tuesday that the company’s neighborhood of DC fast-charging stations for its electrical autos, additionally referred to as the Tesla Supercharger neighborhood, may be open to different types {of electrical} autos in 2021.

Responding to a Tesla fan on Twitter, the place Musk directions a following of 58.3 million, the CEO notably wrote: “We’re making our Supercharger neighborhood open to totally different EVs later this yr.”

Musk did not say the place on the planet Tesla would make its DC fast-charging stations obtainable for use with totally different electrical autos, or which makes and fashions may be acceptable with Tesla’s on-the-road chargers in 2021.

He did say that Tesla intends to make Superchargers open to totally different electrical autos in all worldwide places, lastly.

Beforehand, Tesla marketed its autos as having an incredible profit — as compared with totally different producers of battery electrical autos — due to the agency’s distinctive charging stations on the freeway.

The Tesla charging neighborhood is obtainable to drivers of Tesla automobiles with none type of membership fees required. Tesla funds drivers for charging by the minute, or per kilowatt hour for “supercharging” counting on native authorized tips.

Whereas Teslas can vitality up at most any electrical automotive charging station using adaptor cables, Tesla homeowners have the company’s stage 3 and newer Supercharger stations to themselves for now.

The connectors they use to plug in and vitality up on the freeway at newer Superchargers make Tesla’s stations incompatible with others’ EVs, and theoretically maintain strains shorter, and chargers further obtainable for Tesla drivers.

Musk’s promise on Tuesday offers further particulars than an earlier remark he made to YouTuber MKBHD, Marques Brownlee, in December 2020. In the intervening time, Musk acknowledged totally different automakers have been “low-key,” trying to find entry to Tesla Superchargers, and the instruments was already “being made accessible to totally different electrical automobiles.”

Earlier tales by Reuters and others acknowledged Tesla has been in talks to find out fast-charging stations open to electrical autos from totally different firms in Germany, Sweden and Norway.

Opponents inside the U.S. have prolonged focused on charging stations that serve battery electrical autos from a wide range of automakers. These embody: Aerovironment, ChargePoint, Electrify America, Volta, eVgo, Sema and loads of others. (In China and some parts of Europe, the rollout of charging infrastructure has been far more quick than it has been inside the U.S.)

Based mostly on Tesla’s site, the company now operates better than 25,000 charging stations world extensive.

If Tesla opens up necessary numbers of its charging stations inside the US — notably if it may presumably vitality up automobiles from renewable energy sources there — it may faucet into new authorities funding akin to grants, tax credit score, rebates or inexperienced vitality credit score which it may presumably promote to firms that need them to offset their very personal environmental have an effect on.

The exact kinds of credit score may be on the discretion of various state and federal authorities that run environmental functions and inexperienced credit score rating regimes.

Throughout the first quarter of 2021, Tesla reported $518 million in revenue from sales of regulatory credits. The company is anticipated to ship its second-quarter earnings exchange, along with new Supercharger numbers and earnings from regulatory credit score rating product sales on Monday July 26.