Electric cars|In Sweden, a long queue of cars for Tesla chargers was seen. According to Tesla’s interpretation, the root cause was the ay movement.
The summary is made by artificial intelligence and checked by a human.
In Sweden, an exceptionally long line of cars was seen at the Tesla charger area in Malungi.
A Tesla executive blames union support strikes for the lack of charging capacity in Sweden.
The IF Metall union demands Tesla to sign collective agreements, which has caused conflicts.
in Sweden saw an exceptionally long queue of cars at the charging area for electric cars, which drew parallels to the earth-shaking industrial action.
Based on a video circulating online, dozens of fully electric cars were queuing to enter Tesla’s charging area in Malungi, Taalainmaa, over the weekend. The videographer claimed For Aftonbladet magazinethat up to 150 cars sought the charging station.
Cars were unloaded from the direction of the Sälen winter sports center after the cabins were handed over. They aim for the area of 20 chargers in the bitter cold.
According to the magazine, you had to wait up to an hour and a half for your own charging moment.
According to Tesla’s interpretation, the background of the queue is explained by the activities of the trade union movement.
Download queue highlighted the frozen conflict between Tesla and the local union.
The IF Metall union demands that Tesla make collective agreements with the employees, which Tesla does not want to make. In Sweden, about 90 percent of the employees are covered by workplace-specific contracts, so the ay-liike has been crushing Tesla with strikes since last fall.
First, union members refused to unload cars at the ports, and then a support strike stopped, among other things, the mailing of license plates.
Now ay movement brakes Installing Tesla’s fast roadside chargers, i.e. Superchargers. Tesla Charging Manager Max de Zegher claimed on Sunday message service in Xthat there would be more chargers in Sweden without conflict.
“Tesla’s Superchargers are critical infrastructure, especially on peak travel days like this,” de Zegher commented on the queuing video.
“More than a hundred charging devices in Sweden could have been electrified this winter if there were no support strikes.”
In his opinion, queuing is “really painful”, hinders electrification, but would be a completely fixable problem. De Zegher claimed that more charging capacity would be added to six locations near Sälen’s winter sports scenery.
The union’s and Tesla’s positions on collective agreements are still completely separate. IF Metall last message in mid-Decemberthat there would be “more and more Tesla strikers”.
Tesla’s Model Y is an extremely popular car in Sweden. Here, a similar model is charged in Finland with Supercharger.
in Sweden The demand for superchargers may have been increased by the fact that Tesla made them available to all electric car drivers in November.
The chargers are initially optimized for Tesla-branded cars, but the company is slowly opening them up to other cars around the world. In Finland, some stations are still reserved only for Tesla drivers.
On Epiphany Monday afternoon, Malungi’s traffic jam was on its way.
There were no cars in the 20-place charging area at four in the afternoon, according to Tesla’s mobile application. There are also a dozen competing chargers nearby, it turns out from the Chargefinder service.
However, the traffic jam video has attracted attention even in the United States. This is how to comment electric car website Electrek editor-in-chief Fred Lambert:
“We’ve seen long lines at Tesla Superchargers before, but I think this might be the longest I’ve seen.”