As part of our ESG efforts our company is switching company cars over to Teslas. I'm one of the executive sponsors of this program, and hence a "guinea pig" as well. However, some interesting things coming out of the experience. First, our Fleet Manager is the "Primary Driver" on all of our Tesla cars, so each actual driver is an "Approved Driver" or "Secondary Driver" (whatever the correct terminology is). There are implications.
Works ok mostly, except that we have limited visibility in the app, and all of the actual drivers don't seem to be able to pay for their own SuperCharging - it's all charged to one company card. Not so bad when it's work-related driving, but if I take the car on a personal trip I would usually pay for the gas previously if an ICE car. Similarly I want to pay for the Supercharging on a personal trip, but there's no way to do it, so we end up with all kinds of reimbursement gyrations - ewwww.
Further, the company also sponsors home charging costs. I had a JuiceBox in the garage from a previous PHEV we used to have, so at the start I was using that to charge the company Tesla. It was pretty easy to take screencaps of the JuiceNet app, show a cost rate from my electric bill, and put it all into a little Excel spreadsheet to run up the month's tab, and submit for re-imbursement.
But now, the company also sponsored installation of a Tesla Wall Connector. I took the option even though I already had the JuiceBox, mostly because I'm an initial "guinea pig" and want to experience the "whole Monty" as it were, before we roll this out to dozens of employees in our field exec team. Problem is, because I'm not the "Primary Driver" I seem to have zero visibility to charge history on the Tesla App if I use the Tesla charger, so now it looks like we all have to badger our fleet manager to send us out monthly charging stats so we can submit for reimbursement. That's ok for the group of 5 that are the early test group, but we're going to have a lot more people doing this soon if we roll further, and that doesn't seem ideal.
Some questions:
Thanks for listening.
Works ok mostly, except that we have limited visibility in the app, and all of the actual drivers don't seem to be able to pay for their own SuperCharging - it's all charged to one company card. Not so bad when it's work-related driving, but if I take the car on a personal trip I would usually pay for the gas previously if an ICE car. Similarly I want to pay for the Supercharging on a personal trip, but there's no way to do it, so we end up with all kinds of reimbursement gyrations - ewwww.
Further, the company also sponsors home charging costs. I had a JuiceBox in the garage from a previous PHEV we used to have, so at the start I was using that to charge the company Tesla. It was pretty easy to take screencaps of the JuiceNet app, show a cost rate from my electric bill, and put it all into a little Excel spreadsheet to run up the month's tab, and submit for re-imbursement.
But now, the company also sponsored installation of a Tesla Wall Connector. I took the option even though I already had the JuiceBox, mostly because I'm an initial "guinea pig" and want to experience the "whole Monty" as it were, before we roll this out to dozens of employees in our field exec team. Problem is, because I'm not the "Primary Driver" I seem to have zero visibility to charge history on the Tesla App if I use the Tesla charger, so now it looks like we all have to badger our fleet manager to send us out monthly charging stats so we can submit for reimbursement. That's ok for the group of 5 that are the early test group, but we're going to have a lot more people doing this soon if we roll further, and that doesn't seem ideal.
Some questions:
- Did we do it the "right way" making the fleet manager our "Primary Driver"? We seem to be dealing with quite a few limitations because of this.
- Is there a way for non-Primary drivers to pay for their own supercharging?
- Is there a way for non-Primary drivers to get access to their own charging history?
- Should we try to get Tesla to change "Primary Driver"s to each actual driver of each company car? Is changing Primary Driver even possible?
- Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks for listening.