To lessen the impact on the network. Making people pay for it means some people will choose not to. Is AT&T ready for hundreds of thousands of new devices on their LTE network in the next few years? Maybe they don't care. I dunno.
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Tesla provided Cellular Data Plan - Free forever?
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To lessen the impact on the network. Making people pay for it means some people will choose not to. Is AT&T ready for hundreds of thousands of new devices on their LTE network in the next few years? Maybe they don't care. I dunno.
Funny, we indeed joined almost at the same time.
As these are notifications, where the only option is to click on "Ok", could be that it happened at the SC or when your better half was driving the car. Just guessing here.
It happened about two months after a service and the Service Manager told me this happens sometimes. :shrug:
As much as Tesla needs AP data I think customers will care just as much about the connectivity of the car, which means most people are going to pay for it unless it's incredibly expensive. And as other pointed out I think it wouldn't be too complicated for Tesla to just disable certain feature if the customer doesn't pay, but still allow for some background data. In Germany they are already disabling some of these features for the base car.
This ads up to a lot of money. Just charging $10 per month would be 6 million Dollars on 50k cars. With Tesla's current fleet by the end of 2020 we would be talking about more than 20million and that's assuming they just charge $10.
This ads up to a lot of money. Just charging $10 per month would be 6 million Dollars on 50k cars. With Tesla's current fleet by the end of 2020 we would be talking about more than 20million and that's assuming they just charge $10.
Newscutter
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As an earlier pre-Autopilot owner, I'm bracing to get hammered for having bought too soon.
I can't imagine my car provides them with enough telemetry to be useful.
I'd like to think earlier owners won't be shut out in the cold, but Tesla might consider us prime targets for upgrade sales and choose to "pull that lever" despite our intention to keep our car until it is no longer useful.
I can't imagine my car provides them with enough telemetry to be useful.
I'd like to think earlier owners won't be shut out in the cold, but Tesla might consider us prime targets for upgrade sales and choose to "pull that lever" despite our intention to keep our car until it is no longer useful.
hillestadk
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They may cut off streaming use after the 4 years is up, but I believe the maps are supposed to have free updates for 7 years...
But maps are normally only updated over WiFi. So I don't think map updates have anything to do with a Tesla supplied data plan.
Maps are constantly loaded, when driving through areas with no cell reception your maps will be blank eventually. Had that happen to me my modem locked up. Rebooting the screen fixed that though.
The map updates that Tesla provides are used for the navigation on the IC and are offline. The maps you are talking about are the unrelated live Google maps. I would assume there is no end date for them updating unless Google and Tesla part ways.
ev-now
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Yep, the Onstar business model. Seems likely they'll charge for consumer service (streaming/browser) in the future, but the fleet stuff would still just run in background. Who knows.
PatrickCH4313
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Since march 2016, I already received 3 maps updates this year (28.04 / 18.05 / 05.07.2016).
PatrickCH4313
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This is correct, Maps and Navigation have free updates for 7 years
( "Bordkarten und Navigation 7 Jahre gratis" in german)
Do those numbers represent the dates you received the 3 map updates or are they version numbers? If version, how did you get the version?
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