Hmmmm. Entitled?? I was told that supercharging, which I use maybe twice a year, was included in the price of the car. I feel that supercharging should not be free to all because of the massive abuse by owners who live fairly close and think "free" means them, all the time, even to blocking long distance travelers. I would be happy to hear that Tesla disallows free charging to any car that "lives" within a radius of, say, 30 miles, and this would include those poor apartment dwellers that can't have a plug installed. My garage charging is not, was not free.
I like roblabs idea to prevent local supercharging.
The supercharger network should be for long distance travel not local travel!
And here we have a Darwin Award-winning collective load of crap about six different ways.
Not only has Tesla embraced the non-garaged for at least 4 years now by offering carte blanche at SCs for such owners unless and until they can facilitate charging at home or at the office, but then Tesla doubled down with urban supercharger locations in large measure due to the non-garaged in those very areas.
Yet still, these kind of posts pop up every once in awhile from the "somebody must be getting away with something" crowd. It's just offensive.
Never mind that it is generally impossible to discern a non-garaged "local" from a garaged "local" when they use an SC. Are there glaring exceptions once in awhile at the all of 3% of SCs that can even remotely be considered busy? Sure. As with most exceptions, those are clearly not the rule.
Non-garaged locals have been and will continue to charge at SCs. Get over it. They won't be geo-fenced despite the wrong-headed views of a few. Now, if you want to have a go at garaged locals, then have at it. However, and again, we're talking about at best 3% of the network here, you'll quickly end up with a patchwork there as well. Don't forget to persecute livery while you're at it, even though Tesla has a policy for these folks as well going forward. Oh, and ICEing by our own - being probably the NUMBER ONE cause of SC congestion - for which Tesla now also has the idle fee policy - which I'd like to see graduated to $1/min after 60 min lifetime and $5/min after 180 min lifetime per vehicle.
It would be nice if those who don't use SCs but once or twice a year if ever would kindly recognize that a) those of us who use them on a weekly basis in the most densely-populated areas of the country have a far clearer view of who's using what and b) Tesla is well aware of who's using what and where. The non-garaged will continue to be welcome, locals will continue to be persecuted even those it's impossible to tell the difference between non-garaged and garaged by looking at them, and Tesla will continue to manage demand in an effective manner *for the most part*. They've dropped the ball in the OC in the past and in San Diego presently, but in time, all should be well.
If you really want to see the wheels fall off the cart, cast the hairy eyeball of persecution not at "locals", but at the worrisome trend continent-wide - that being the relative health of pedestals and sites year over year. There is no faster way to turn a 12-stall site into a 4-stall site than to have 4 non-functional pedestals on top of the aforementioned ICEing by our own.
Clearly, with a little thought, it will become quite evident that persecuting the mythical freeloading local is just shooting badly in the wrong direction.
All of the above having been said, here's a solution for the OP that the "burn them all" contingent will also be powerless to affect. Just buy a CPO AP1 Model S. Great cars coming off 3-year lease now with lower mileage, ESA to 100,000 miles or close to it, and supercharging is included. Plus these cars can be had for $45K give or take based upon options and mileage. Yes - for LESS than a Model 3.
Lastly, please recall the words of Dr. Straubel from a few years back - he said that included supercharging would be fine up to a point. And, in round numbers, that point would arrive in about 2020 with 1M vehicles. Give or take a year, I'd say he pretty much nailed it. As with any finite resource, nothing is forever.
