On 2 May 2017 at 9:05, Collin Kidder via EV wrote: > Doing so is likely to be seen as theft (of electricity).
Here's some totally uninformed speculation. Anyone who knows otherwise, please correct me. A Tesla is like an ankle bracelet that you drive, always connected to the net, reporting to Tesla on your movements and the car's state. Tesla no longer includes unlimited charging in the original price of the car, yes? So wouldn't you think that Tesla's charger must have some way to determine whether any given Tesla is allowed to use them for free? Thus I'd be very surprised if the chargers don't read the car's VIN, check with Tesla, and log the transaction, before they allow the charge to begin.. Since Tesla (presumably) always knows where every car is, it could also check to see where it had last seen that car ID, and whether that was consistent with the charging request. It could also check other data for consistency -- last known accumulated mileage, last known state of charge, and so on. So you probably couldn't just feed the charger some random VIN. Spoofing a particular known VIN or even choosing from a list of known VINs probably wouldn't work either. And as Collin pointed out, unless you were successfully spoofing a new car's VIN that didn't include the charging in the purchase price, you'd be stealing anyway. Even then, I suspect Tesla woudn't look very approvingly on what you were doing. It does seem like a shame and a waste to have all those chargers and not make them available to the entire EV community. Imagine what it'd be like today if Ford, Chevrolet, and Chrysler had done that -- each built filling stations that would work with only THEIR cars. Heck, maybe what are now the "big three" would be the bit players, and most of us would be driving Edisons, Galvanis, and Voltas that could plug in and charge anywhere! David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
