In addition to what was covered in the article, the main thing that
Tesla is doing to incentivize me to get out of the 2015 Model S 70 I am
driving is to reduce the speed of the supercharging. It maxes out
around 70 and pretty quickly gets below 60, 50, 40. Road trips, even
when the charging is free, are hard when you have to spend an hour at a
supercharger so frequently. I have looked into paying for an upgrade to
90 kWh, and they would be fine to sell me that, and it would not
invalidate the free supercharging, but they explicitly told me that this
would not necessarily result in a supercharger speed improvement. I
would speculate the lack of clear path to paying for improving the
supercharging speeds is deliberate. The net result in my view is that
the long-term value of the vehicle is diminished, without apparently
breaking any agreements.
There is a question out there for economists to calculate the value of
any electric vehicle that comes with long-term free transferable dc
fast charging for the life of the vehicle. I have to believe that the
free supercharging Teslas would be candidates to have their marketplace
value rise and not fall, depending on certain factors. However, this
business of Tesla reducing the supercharging speed of those vehicles I
think accomplishes Tesla's apparent goal of reducing the value of the
vehicle to the drivers. Perhaps this is helping them repatriate some of
those vehicles and remove the supercharging obligations from their books
(if they have an accounting treatment for it). I also wonder if there
are economists who have tracked down whether Tesla publishes anything
for this obligation in its financial statements, and if so, what can be
gleaned from any value that Tesla is putting on the charging and the
vehicles.
On 4/24/2023 9:17 AM, EV List Lackey via EV wrote:
Tesla tries to get owners to give up `unlimited free Supercharging for life´
Fred Lambert | Apr 24 2023 - 12:25 am PT
"Tesla is trying again to get owners of older Model S and Model X with
unlimited free Supercharging for life to give up the perk ...
"Current Tesla Model S or Model X owners with active unlimited free
Supercharging are eligible for 6 years of unlimited Supercharging. To
qualify, owners must trade in or remove unlimited Supercharging from their
vehicle and take delivery of a new Model S or Model X by June 30, 2023 ...
"It´s interesting that Tesla is just now trying hard to get people off of
the unlimited free Supercharging just as it appears to try to make
Supercharging a profit center - something it originally said it wouldn´t do.
"With non-Tesla EV drivers now getting access to the network, it looks like
Tesla is now looking to see what the Supercharger network would look like as
a full-scale money-making charging network."
Complete article:
https://electrek.co/2023/04/24/tesla-triesowners-give-up-unlimited-free-
supercharging-for-life/
or https://v.gd/vBwnXc
David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey
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