About the builder
I built ChargeQuest because I needed the route to answer better questions
I’m Anthony Pappano. ChargeQuest started while I was trying to plan an ambitious run at the 2026 Tesla Supercharging Competition. The existing tools could tell me how to reach a destination. I wanted to compare entire journeys: different competition strategies, practical range, daily pace, badge targets, places worth seeing, and the tradeoffs hiding between them.
Anthony Pappano ·
- Role: Creator and route builder
- Starting point: The 2026 competition
- Operating rule: Show the assumptions
The competition started it. The road made it bigger.
I originally built CORE to give myself a better way to think through a very specific challenge. A long competition route is not one navigation request. It is a sequence of decisions about continuity, unique charging sites, the car, the season, the amount of driving I can sustain, and the places I would regret passing.
Once those decisions became visible, the project stopped feeling useful only to me. A driver planning Route 66, a western parks loop, or a first cross-country Tesla trip faces many of the same questions even if a leaderboard never enters the picture. ChargeQuest became a place to start with a meaningful road and build a version that fits the person driving it.
How I build the field guides
Competition and badge facts are linked back to Tesla’s current support and location pages. Route examples come from the same CORE engine available in the planner, with the vehicle, range, dates, pace, and station-feed snapshot stated on the page. When a number is an estimate, I call it an estimate.
The guides are intentionally connected to the product. I do not want a separate pile of travel articles that could belong to any website. Each page should explain a real route decision, clarify an official rule, identify a badge target, or help someone make a better choice inside CORE.
What I am—and am not—claiming
ChargeQuest is a project of Antelligence LLC. I am the builder and public voice behind it; Antelligence LLC is the business operating the project.
I am the builder taking the route problem seriously, not an official voice for Tesla. ChargeQuest is independent and cannot award a badge, certify a competition score, guarantee a charger, or know what weather and traffic will do on your travel day. Tesla owns its competition and charging records. Road, park, and charger conditions still need current verification.
I will add first-hand route notes as my own plan develops and, eventually, as the road tests the assumptions. Those notes should make the existing guides more useful. They will not be used to pretend one person’s trip is the correct route for everyone.
The standard I want ChargeQuest to keep
A page should be worth reading even if it never ranks first. A route should show why its stops are there. A metric should carry enough context to be challenged. And the visitor should remain the person making the final decision.
Winning the competition would be incredible. Building a road worth remembering is the larger goal. ChargeQuest exists to make both ambitions easier to see clearly.