supercharger network is built and owned by tesla and it's built to the exact spec of their cars works great with them and then there's every other ev and all the other public charging networks that kind of all have somewhat variable experiences i kind of think of it a little bit like lightning versus usb type c so right now today there are about NUMBER_TOKEN tesla supercharger stations in the u.s and they're mostly along major roads either at rest stops or in mall parking lots or around food things like that and then with the mock e you will use the fordpass charging network and if you look on ford's website for the maki it says that that's the largest public charging network in north america offered by a car manufacturer which is it feels like they're trying to loop in a couple different things there to make that statement true they definitely want to be able to say they've got the biggest network but it's a public network too and it's clearly it's not built by ford and so the fordpass network is looping in a bunch of different other public charging networks into one it streamlines the payment experience so you only need one ford pass account it's convenient for the buyer but that includes about NUMBER_TOKEN electrify america super fast chargers some of them up to NUMBER_TOKEN kilowatts when the car supports it that's amazing but that also includes some slow chargers some offline chargers some out of order broken chargers and that's the difference and because these chargers aren't built by four they aren't managed directly by ford there's a bit of a communication gap between when one of them might go down and that information actually showing up to the driver in the car usually doesn't know until he gets there so the difference is literally when i sit down to plan a road trip in the tesla on the screen i'm getting all of my information this is what they've done so well with their software it's telling me whether or not i can make it to my destination on one charge if i can't it's going to route me through superchargers along the way tells me how long i need to charge at the supercharger to continue my trip and how much battery it'll leave me with when i arrive but even better yet for each charger it tells me how many stalls there are the speed of the chargers how many are out of order and how many are literally currently being occupied by other cars charging right now ford is able to tell you about as much as they know but they often don't know if there are charges that are down or broken or offline or something which is what happened during our trip the trip in the car navigated them to a charger that was offline i think it was for maintenance it was being updated or something but that would have been really bad if they'd arrived there with like one mile of battery left like i did when i arrived at lake placid knowing trusting that the superchargers would be there and working that's the difference i could really trust what was being shown in the car and when i arrived there i'd have charges available and that's just not the case in the ford so i kind of felt like if lightning is the tesla supercharger network it's tightly controlled by apple the same
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