Can someone explain the "Free Internet"

[brianman]

All Tesla’s have an LTE connection..

Correction: All S, X, 3 have a cellular connection. Some S, X have LTE. All(?) 3 have LTE. No roadsters have OEM-provided cellular connections.

 

[VT_EE]

What is “limited nav information” ?

You will not have realtime Google map traffic updates on the map unless you pay the LTE fee. This is worth the extra money IMO.

 

[duy.duck]

I ordered my 3 July 7. I assume the expiration date for the first year is exactly one year from today when I picked up my Tesla. But is the expiration date listed anywhere on the car, phone, or website? Would like to know mainly for reference in the future.

 

[gregd]

No roadsters have OEM-provided cellular connections.

Effectively true now, but the 2010 & 2011 2.x Roadsters did come with a "GSM" connection. It appears that it was 2G and that service is pretty much unavailable these days. Not sure if Tesla has kept the accounts active, either.

The connections were used for reporting alerts and other diagnostic information back to Tesla from the fleet. OTA updates were not available, as far as I know.

 

[brianman]

Effectively true now, but the 2010 & 2011 2.x Roadsters did come with a "GSM" connection. It appears that it was 2G and that service is pretty much unavailable these days. Not sure if Tesla has kept the accounts active, either.

The connections were used for reporting alerts and other diagnostic information back to Tesla from the fleet. OTA updates were not available, as far as I know.

News to me! Thanks for the correction.

 

[xyeahtony]

You will not have realtime Google map traffic updates on the map unless you pay the LTE fee. This is worth the extra money IMO.

Navigation will still use traffic-based routing. You just wont see the green/red/yellow lines on the maps.