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Tesla opens first 1.2 MW Megacharger for Semi
Tesla has launched its first public Megacharger site for Tesla Semi trucks in Bloomington, California, with six stalls rated at up to 1.2 MW each.
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Tesla has opened its first public Megacharger station for Tesla Semi electric trucks. The new site is in Bloomington, California, about an hour from Los Angeles, and includes six charging stalls, each capable of delivering up to 1.2 MW.
That puts it well beyond Tesla’s passenger-car charging hardware. The current Supercharger V4 tops out at 500 kW, making Megacharger nearly 2.5 times more powerful. That extra capacity matters because heavy-duty trucks have very different battery packs, workloads, and operating schedules than passenger EVs.
Tesla has been laying the groundwork for this for years. When it first introduced the Semi, the company said megawatt-class charging would be essential to quickly restore enough range for the next leg of a route. PepsiCo, one of the earliest major Tesla Semi customers, began receiving trucks in 2022, but scaling fleets nationwide without a dedicated high-power network would have been difficult.
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The launch also comes as the heavy electric transport market moves toward a broader charging standard. MCS, backed by CharIN and major truck makers, is theoretically designed to support up to 3.75 MW. Tesla’s 1.2 MW is still well below that ceiling, but it is already enough to push truck charging beyond the demo stage and closer to everyday logistics use.
This spring, Tesla said it had produced the first production Tesla Semi from its new line at Gigafactory Nevada. If the company starts deploying Megachargers along key US freight corridors, the Semi could become more than a high-profile niche vehicle for fleets. The next few months will show whether Tesla is ready to move beyond pilot deliveries and build the charging network that heavy electric trucking needs.
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