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January 16, 2026

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Tesla Sweden has efficiently launched a brand new Supercharger station regardless of an ongoing blockade by Swedish unions, utilizing on-site Megapack batteries as a substitute of conventional grid connections. The workaround has allowed the Supercharger to function with out direct entry to Sweden’s electrical energy community, which has been successfully frozen by labor motion.

Tesla has skilled notable challenges connecting its new charging stations to Sweden’s energy grid attributable to industrial motion led by Seko, a significant Swedish commerce union, which has blocked all new electrical connections for brand new Superchargers. On paper, this made the opening of latest Supercharger websites virtually unimaginable.

Regardless of the blockade, Tesla has continued to convey stations on-line. In Malmö and Södertälje, new Supercharger areas opened after grid operators E.ON and Telge Nät activated the websites. The operators later said that the connections had been made in error.

Extra not too long ago, nonetheless, Tesla adopted a unique technique altogether. Simply earlier than Christmas, Tesla went reside with a brand new charging station in Arlandastad, exterior Stockholm, by powering it with a Tesla Megapack battery, as famous in a Right now’s Work (DA) report.

As a result of the Supercharger station doesn’t depend on a everlasting grid connectionTesla was capable of bypass the blocked utility course of, as famous by Swedish automobile journalist and YouTuber Peter Esse. He famous that the Arlandastad Supercharger is probably going depending on close by firms to recharge the batteries, possible by personal preparations.

Eight new charging stalls have been launched within the Arlandastad web site up to now, which is a fraction of the initially deliberate 40 chargers for the situation. Nonetheless, the truth that Tesla Sweden was capable of work across the unions’ efforts as soon as extra is spectacular, particularly since Superchargers are used even by non-Tesla EVs.

Esse famous that Tesla’s Megapack workaround isn’t as simply replicated in different areas. Arlandastad is exclusive as a result of neighboring operators have already got entry to grid energy, making it potential for Tesla to supply electrical energy not directly. Nonetheless, Esse famous that the unions’ blockades have not affected gross sales as a lot.

“Many need Tesla to lose gross sales as a result of union blockades. However you must keep in mind that gross sales are falling from 2024, when Tesla offered a document variety of automobiles in Sweden. That 12 months, the unions additionally had blockades towards Tesla. So for Tesla as a charging operator, it’s devastating. However for Tesla as a automobile firm, it doesn’t matter by way of gross sales volumes. Folks cost their automobiles the place there is a chance, often at dwelling,” Esse famous.