AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla is laying the groundwork for its electric Semi in Europe with an ambitious charging plan: an initial rollout of more than 100 Megacharger stalls stretching across the continent's busiest freight corridors.
The figure came from a presentation by the head of Tesla's Megacharger program at the IAA Transportation show in Hannover. A slide put the first phase at more than 100 MCS-equipped stalls, each capable of 1.2 megawatts and able to add more than 60% of range in 30 minutes, above a map with markers concentrated in Britain, France, the Low Countries and Germany, plus one in southern Sweden.
A Network Built for Scale
The stalls will span Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium at the outset, with more markets to follow. The 1.2-megawatt rating matches what Tesla already offers in the United States and deliberately overshoots the European Semi's current needs — the truck itself charges at up to 800 kilowatts — leaving headroom for posts sharing a cabinet and for any longer-range model Tesla adds later.
Because the counting is by stall rather than by cabinet or site, a single Megacharger unit can serve more than one post, meaning the network reaches more trucks per location than the raw number suggests. It is infrastructure designed to grow with demand rather than chase it, and it complements the public Megacharging Tesla is standing up elsewhere.
The Factory Behind the Trucks
Dan Priestley, who runs Tesla's Semi program, set out the production side at the same event. "We have a plan for an aggressive ramp," he said. "This factory will grow and serve our initial demand in North America and Europe. It has a designed production capacity of 1,000 trucks per week." That works out to roughly 50,000 trucks a year.
