Tesla Is About To Cut Off Its Free Supercharger Access Deal
If you have any plans to buy a Tesla you’d better hurry up, because the company is cutting off the current free electricity deal at the start of next year.
It had already been confirmed that Model 3 owners wouldn’t get the same free power deal, but now Elon Musk has announced that as of 1 January 2017, all new customers will have to pay a “small fee” to use the supercharger network.
How much the fee will be is yet to be confirmed and may vary from country to country. Tesla has said, though, that the price will be dependent on the wider cost of electricity at the time, leaving it wide open to the fluctuations of supply and demand.
Teslas ordered by the end of December will still qualify for the old deal, except the Model 3, but only for cars delivered by April.
Autocar is speculating that the move could be tied in to Tesla’s newly-released solar roof tiles for houses, suggesting that Musk may be trying to encourage new Tesla buyers to adopt solar charging. With hundreds of thousands of deposits placed for Model 3s, that might be good business sense.
In other Tesla news, the ridiculously fast Model S P100D is about to get even faster…
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I wonder how much they’ll charge?
should still give the car a full charge ;)
I like your style sir.
They realised turbochargers would have been more efficient
ls swap it
Meanwhile, somebody has a solar powered Miata….
Don’t worry, we’ll always include our free power of security with every order… See how I turned that around?
Well… I see you do charge a lot.
I thought you shouldn’t be able to turn a steering wheel around when it has a disklok?
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RIP
Tesla: We saw you like charging, so we will charge you when you charge on our chargers.
Chargeception
I guess it will run out of charge
you guys fail to mention the first 400Kw are free even for new orders, only above that it will be charged and at an incremental rate…
I’m not surprised. I figured this would happen eventually. It’s a good market strategy. For the first few years you offer free charging on your cars. Once the brand has become well known, and there are tons of your cars on the road, you start charging for charging your car. Sure, many people are going to be upset about it, but I don’t think it will effect Tesla sales to much. After a few months, or a year has passed no one is going to care anyways. Tesla drivers will treat pay to charge like the rest of us treat filling at the pump. It sucks that you have to spend money on it, but meh, you got to if you want to keep using your car.