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How soon can I access superchargers after account transfer?
- Thread starter arcticfox
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I dont know the answer to that question, but what I would likely see if I could arrange with the seller (if they were private party) If I were doing this would be:
1. Ask them to add you as an authorized driver to the account, and not drop the car from their tesla app until you get home.
2. Purchase a pre paid visa card, load it with some money ($150-200) and ask the seller to put that card in there as the payment method for supercharging.
Doing those two things would, I believe, result in an uneventful drive home, and not be asking the seller to pay for your supercharging on the way home.
It would require a bit of trust on the seller to agree to drop the car from their account after you get home, and it would also allow them to see where you were in the car (cause thats how the tesla app works), but if neither of those is a concern, you would have an uneventful drive home.
Otherwise, I have read anywhere up to 5 days before ownership transfers complete, so I believe there might be some risk there.
1. Ask them to add you as an authorized driver to the account, and not drop the car from their tesla app until you get home.
2. Purchase a pre paid visa card, load it with some money ($150-200) and ask the seller to put that card in there as the payment method for supercharging.
Doing those two things would, I believe, result in an uneventful drive home, and not be asking the seller to pay for your supercharging on the way home.
It would require a bit of trust on the seller to agree to drop the car from their account after you get home, and it would also allow them to see where you were in the car (cause thats how the tesla app works), but if neither of those is a concern, you would have an uneventful drive home.
Otherwise, I have read anywhere up to 5 days before ownership transfers complete, so I believe there might be some risk there.
RTPEV
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It's pretty darn quick! (well, maybe)
My wife bought a Model Y last month from a used car dealer...so okay, maybe the car was already in some kind of "limbo" state which greased the skids a bit, but the entire process was automated. As soon as we had a signed bill of sale, we took a picture with her phone, went into her app and from her account, used the Add / Remove product to add a vehicle.
From there it pops up a dialog that says it's easiest to just have the previous owner transfer the vehicle to the new owner (remove the vehicle from their account), which is probably what you will want to do. But the "harder" method (which is what we did) was pretty darn easy. We had to upload pictures of some documents and follow the prompts in the car to add the new car, but this appeared to be completely automated, as moments later the car was in her app and off we went to the Supercharger which was only about 10 minutes away to charge up (since the car was down to about 20% SOC and we had a 50 minute drive back home).
There is a message in the app that says it can take 3-5 days, but that certainly wasn't our experience. After we followed all the instructions, it seemed instantaneous. I have to think that once the previous owner removes the car from their account, it's probably no worse than what we experienced, and it may be even easier if the previous owner actually specifically transfers the vehicle to you.
Good luck!
My wife bought a Model Y last month from a used car dealer...so okay, maybe the car was already in some kind of "limbo" state which greased the skids a bit, but the entire process was automated. As soon as we had a signed bill of sale, we took a picture with her phone, went into her app and from her account, used the Add / Remove product to add a vehicle.
From there it pops up a dialog that says it's easiest to just have the previous owner transfer the vehicle to the new owner (remove the vehicle from their account), which is probably what you will want to do. But the "harder" method (which is what we did) was pretty darn easy. We had to upload pictures of some documents and follow the prompts in the car to add the new car, but this appeared to be completely automated, as moments later the car was in her app and off we went to the Supercharger which was only about 10 minutes away to charge up (since the car was down to about 20% SOC and we had a 50 minute drive back home).
There is a message in the app that says it can take 3-5 days, but that certainly wasn't our experience. After we followed all the instructions, it seemed instantaneous. I have to think that once the previous owner removes the car from their account, it's probably no worse than what we experienced, and it may be even easier if the previous owner actually specifically transfers the vehicle to you.
Good luck!
