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travwill
Active Member
It's a selling point but not major one. The free charging does stay with the car for life.
They should have time this better to avoid one less complication with the AP2 release. That would have a clear line that all AP2 cars did not have free life charging forward. Now you will have 3 groups: 1) MX AP1 cars always with free charging, 2) Some MX AP2 cars from Nov-Apr that have free charging, and 3) Most MX with AP2+ in future without free charging which will eventually be largest group.
They should have time this better to avoid one less complication with the AP2 release. That would have a clear line that all AP2 cars did not have free life charging forward. Now you will have 3 groups: 1) MX AP1 cars always with free charging, 2) Some MX AP2 cars from Nov-Apr that have free charging, and 3) Most MX with AP2+ in future without free charging which will eventually be largest group.
If they did announce the date of AP2 availability beforehand then yes they could do that. However, the AP2 announcement came after AP2 already in production. This is to coup with existing orders that have not delivered yet. Can they do that with limited SpC? It would create an outrage and many cancelled orders. Now if you say existing orders get grandfathered in, wouldn't that end up with your scenario too? Some AP2 cars with unlimited SpC.
This is their current strategy on announcements - if it's an upgrade, announce it afterwards. If it's a downgrade, announce it beforehand (price increase, limited SpC). Other smaller stuff get no announcement at all (streamlining interior choices).
This is their current strategy on announcements - if it's an upgrade, announce it afterwards. If it's a downgrade, announce it beforehand (price increase, limited SpC). Other smaller stuff get no announcement at all (streamlining interior choices).
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Canuck
Well-Known Member
Source?
From what I have read, Tesla says: "your" vehicle when it comes to supercharging. When you sell it, it's no longer your vehicle.
To date, Tesla has allowed purchasers of used vehicles to have free supercharging but no one knows what will happen after Jan. 1, 2017 since Tesla hasn't made an announcement in this regard.
There is a hard deadline that you must take delivery before April 1st, 2017 for unlimited SpC.
Forgot about being slave to the stock price. End of Q1.
The factory closing for a week at end of each quarter is scary haha. Never know what they will add.
I need at least 3 months of not being dated tech.
deonb
Active Member
deonb
Active Member
They did say "Lifetime". So it's either the lifetime of the owner, or lifetime of the car.
If it's lifetime of the owner, I'll take it. That would be much better than lifetime of the car. Well... I hope!
originalsalt
Member
The free supercharging for life was one impetus for us to order a Model X before the end of the year. Overall, closing the sale in 2016 was important as we all face a very uncertain 2017!
For CPO cars, one of the things that Tesla might do is 'buy out' the unlimited supercharging. That is, pay the seller for the value, but not sell it to the new buyer, taking the loss in value, against the decrease in future liability.
For a private sale, they wouldn't be able to do this (according to their statements).
Thank you kindly.
That mechanism doesn't ensure it stays with the car. Checking the VIN references the database - they'll have to reference all the 2018 non-unlimited cars to see if there are credits available, if a credit card is on file, etc. So it very easily could check the vehicle ownership as well by referencing My Tesla.
