Must have Tesla branding, not just be compatible with Tesla cars. It doesn't have to be called a "supercharger" if they change the name, but it does have to be the same thing; not just a normal slower charger.
Cursory glance: this seems the most reasonable explanation for firing of superchargers team:
https://twitter.com/dictionaryhill/status/1785647927295381521
2200 or so currently so this seems unlikely now…
https://www.fool.com/research/tesla-supercharger-stations/
It’s been growing fairly linearly until 2020 (in the 3 years between 2017 and 2020 it looks like roughly 1000 were added from eyeballing the statista reference, but only 200 or so in the last 3 years?).
Even taking 300 added per year and naively extrapolating linearly, it will take (10000 - 2200) / 300 = 26 more years at that rate. Alternatively to do so in roughly 6 years it will take roughly 1300 stations added per year to exceed 10000 stations. That means more than quadrupling the past rate
EV adoption seems to have slowed (per regular news reading) and the economy and government incentives aren’t in a good situation to make this possible or profitable it seems (twitter post) so I will bet NO temporarily. Will update if huge progress is made in FSD by Tesla or similar tech that causes adoption to pick up in the next few years.
