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TechPhonesiPhonesTesla made a wireless iPhone charger and it’s incredibleTesla’s charger looks like the one Apple never quite got round to making – and it costs even moreWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Tesla’s charger looks like the one Apple never quite got round to making – and it costs even more
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(Image credit: Tesla)
(Image credit: Tesla)
While Elon Musk is apparently focused on his Twitter tomfoolery and social media shenanigans, his engineers back at Tesla have been getting on with the day job – and their latest product looks really interesting. It’s a wireless charger that’s capable of charging not one, not two but three devices simultaneously, and it’s due to launch in February.
It reminds me very much ofApple’s doomed AirPower project, which aimed to deliver multi-device charging. The Tesla version enables you to put your Qi-compatible devices anywhere on the charger to deliver up to 15W charging per device.
(Image credit: Wikipedia)
(Image credit: Wikipedia)
Should you buy the Tesla Wireless Charger?
Good question. At $300 it’s ridiculously expensive, and double what you’d pay for a 3-in-1 from the likes of Belkin. It’s definitely a bad buy foriPhone 14,iPhone 13oriPhone12 users, because it isn’t MagSafe; Apple only supports Qi wireless charging of 7.5W, and theApple Watchdoesn’t support Qi at all.
For everybody else, the answer is… we’ll see. Apple got as far as announcing its AirPower device before cancelling it at the last minute because it couldn’t overcome interference and heat problems; the platform Tesla is using, FreePower, hasn’t been trouble-free either. So it’s possible that this might not ship, or ship on the planned launch date.
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