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And thinking twice about it, you won‘t even need Internet at the Supercharger, either. With some clever cryptography and signing, you can use the existing Tesla fleet with the newest updates loaded as a P2P network on wheels... „Want to get the newest maps? Sure, just take a long-distance trip any time soon...“

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Surely you would want internet at a charging location just so you can monitor it remotely.

Superchargers are connected, but probably don't have the hardware to act as a WiFi hotspot. Teslas, on the other hand, do have WiFi, so if they acted as Tesla-only hotspots when idly charging, I guess they could redistribute their stored firmware updates to other charging peers.

I like how you think :)

Indeed, like a useful virus spreading about the Tesla fleet. Nice emanations.

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