Tesla App v4.61.0 Brings Supercharger Site Maps to Every Owner, Not Just the Lucky Ones
The in-vehicle Supercharger site map that came with the 2025 Holiday Update was a good idea with an annoying asterisk. AMD Ryzen infotainment only. Which meant if you owned an Intel-based Model 3 or Model Y, a perfectly capable vehicle, you were looking at a greyed-out feature. Not great.
Tesla app v4.61.0 drops the hardware requirement entirely. The site map is now on your phone. Everyone gets it.
What you're actually looking at
The app version shows stall positions, occupied bays, out-of-service posts, and a live count of open stalls. But the detail I didn't expect: it identifies which specific Tesla model is at each occupied stall. You can see the layout of the entire site before you pull in.
It also shows ADA stall locations and pull-in direction for each stall. Pull-in direction sounds minor until you've arrived at an unfamiliar Supercharger in the dark and spent three minutes trying to figure out which way your charge port is facing relative to the available stall. That information is actually useful.
The hardware exclusion that's now gone
The in-vehicle version launched as part of the Holiday Update and had been spreading to most U.S. Superchargers (piloted first in California and Texas). But AMD Ryzen was the cutoff. Owners with Intel-based hardware were just excluded from a software feature that had nothing to do with their car's performance.
The app version solves that cleanly. No hardware requirement, no asterisk. And putting it on the phone turns out to be more useful anyway, because the best time to check a Supercharger site map is before you commit to a stop, not once you're already pulling into the lot.
Why pre-arrival matters more than in-car
At a busy urban Supercharger with limited nearby alternatives, knowing there are two open stalls versus knowing it's full changes your routing decision. Checking from the car screen while you're already turning in is too late for that. The phone version makes this a genuine trip-planning tool instead of a "here's what you're dealing with" display.
This isn't a headline feature. But it's the kind of thing that quietly improves how the whole system works. You stop guessing. You plan better. The Supercharger network gets used more efficiently because people can see where to go. And the owners who got locked out of the in-vehicle version for hardware reasons finally get access to something that was always going to work fine on their cars.
Source: Teslarati