Tesla to accept DOGE payments at supercharging station in Santa Monica

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Elon Musk, CEO of electric vehicle carmaker Tesla, has now announced plans to accept Dogecoin payments at its newly-launched supercharging station in Santa Monica, California, making it the first Tesla’s supercharging facility to do so.

Revealing its plans via a Twitter post on Saturday, the supercharging facility is situated in the Hollywood area of Santa Monica, Southern California. Apart from offering DOGE payments, the facility will also feature a futuristic diner/drive-in theater.

And, of course, you can pay in Ðoge

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2022

Of course, you can pay in Doge,” Musk said in a reply to Tesla Console founder Rayan Zohoury, who tweeted about the immediate occupancy of superchargers soon after the inauguration.

Elon Musk, a vocal proponent of Dogecoin, started accepting Dogecoin payments for Tesla merchandise from November 2021. In a December interview with TIME Magazine, Musk once again endorsed Dogecoin and said that the meme coin is a better form of payment than Bitcoin. He noted:

“Even though it was created as a silly joke, Dogecoin is better suited for transactions. The total transaction flow that you do with Dogecoin is transactions per day has much higher potential than Bitcoin.”

Speculations about SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer founded by Musk, testing Dogecoin payments also emerged recently after a graphic designer at the Dogecoin Foundation, who goes by @cb_doge on Twitter, found a source code in the SpaceX merch store.

#Dogecoin found in the source code of SpaceX Merch Online Store https://t.co/chcTtG3jDs pic.twitter.com/6HOQ3LRKzu