What to Watch, Hear and Play While Supercharging Your Tesla

A Supercharging stop is often 15 to 30 minutes. That's too short to start a film and too long to stare at the charging screen. The trick is to pick something that fits the stop.

Match the format to the stop

• Ten minutes: a game of 2048, a sudoku, or a live radio station.
• Twenty minutes: a podcast episode, a live news channel, or a few YouTube videos.
• Forty minutes or more: a show you're already partway through, on the service you already pay for.

Free live TV: no commitment, no account

Free live channels are made for stops like this: you drop in, watch for as long as you're there, and leave without losing anything. TeslaStreams lists free live channels from Tubi, plus live news from YouTube that plays right on our page. None of it needs an account.

Radio and podcasts, built in

Live radio is built into TeslaStreams, with stations from around the world. Podcasts are too: search for any show and play an episode right in the app. Neither needs an account.

Quick games for short stops

TeslaStreams has six games of its own: chess, checkers, Four in a Row, sudoku, 2048 and Glitch Hunt, our slingshot physics game. Chess, checkers and Four in a Row also have a two-player mode on one screen. See our games guide.

Picking up where you left off

If you're partway through a show, the streaming tiles open each service's own website, signed in with your own account. Netflix and the other services keep their own Continue Watching row, so your place is wherever you left it, whichever screen you watched on last.

For longer stops

Tesla's browser now opens several services full-screen, and Tesla Theater has its own tiles for Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Twitch and TikTok in the US. Our Model 3 guide lists what works where.