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"We envision a future where cars move themselves once fully charged, enhancing network efficiency and the customer experience even further. Until then, we ask that vehicles be moved from the Supercharger once fully charged. One would never leave a car parked at a gas station right at the pump...

Elon's comments are cryptic in nature. I think he doese this on purpose to get people speculating. I posted this on another thread but He's increasingly doing this more and more and my trust in what he says is slowly going down over time. I think he's got to be careful. especially over time...

This... I agree. I think everyone else is reading too much into his words. Free destination chargers makes sense as Tesla wouldn't be paying for that anyway

Thanks for all of the comments/replies to this post Some I agree with and some I do not. The fact that we can argue each of these both ways furthers my point. Elon's comments are cryptic in nature (especially on twitter) and one must read between the lines a bit to understand them. Now...

Elon's been known to play with words a bit and my level of trust in what he says is going down slowly over time 1. Supercharging will be "free for life" . Although technically true for all users who purchased a Tesla so far, this was obviously intended to give the assumption that it would be...

I don't think ANY of the base price was allocated toward supercharging with S, X or 3 which is why he indicated why the S and X price may have been recently raised. margins are already super thin as it is with 3, so even $500 is a lot of $ to have factored in for anything I agree that this...

Yes, I agree with this. and having it "option" will allow people that do not think they would ever user SC network to opt out of it completely and add it later if they choose to this may be why they indicate all Teslas will have the "Hardware" come standard (not enabled)

I agree. i am just hung up on the verbiage that they used. I am sure they have dozens of people review these posts prior to releasing them so I am hopeful, but still skeptical i guess. Anyway, I am a huge fan and i think the move is a good one.

I see what you are saying, but with that logic then self driving would also be free since all model 3 will come standard with the "hardware" for self driving? or maybe they have yet to come up with a business practice around that just yet Maybe i am a bit skeptical here but Elon has been...

Do you know this for sure? Do you have a source link anywhere? Just by the announcement today i dont think we can be 100% for sure

Correct. However, will you need to pay to enable the supercharging capability? They said all teslas will come with the supercharging "hardware", any time they say "hardware" i am skeptical a bit. Will we need to pay for the option to enable this supercharging hardware via a software...

Yeah.. Its a fairly predictable response and I'm sure Tesla expected this type of reaction from certain players. It will be interesting to see if Tesla is/was prepared for any bargaining or collaboration opportunities that may happen shortly and if they have a strategic response. Or maybe they...

This.. It's a foundation to build upon. Many many opportunitys will exist in the future to profit off of. Some we cannot even imagine or understand yet. But the foundation exists and it's the fact that those possibilities will exist in the futur to profit off of is what matters.

I don't think they are wearing blinders. I think they realize it's a threat. But I think they drastically underestimated how quickly it would be adopted and accepted and now it's on the verge of being too late to compete. So they are left to try and fight it. The ones that adapt quickly and...

Fantastic article. Pretty much spot on for me