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@Red Sage will be along shortly to correct you....
My solution for LA Uber drives is to charge at Red Sage's house.
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@Red Sage will be along shortly to correct you....
While I also prefer the pay-upfront model I don't see how this would be a problem for Tesla. Tesla is vertically integrated in a way that other charger/car pairings are not. Tesla could fairly simply charge you a fee each month based on how much energy you took from the Supercharger network. If the Superchargers can't now read the VIN of the car being charged, I assume it would be only slightly trivial for it to be able to do so. Enter a credit card number into your smartphone Tesla app and voila!, on-demand charging. No need to pay at the "pump" when the same company that connects to the car also owns the pumps.(Every pay per charge network I've used has also had serious reliability issues, a significant amount of which are poor payment systems going down preventing charging).
But the Model 3 will use the new 20700 cells which means higher energy density per cell and therefore a lower cost per kWh.I doubt the battery upgrade on the model 3 will be less than the S/X (per kWh).
It comes from the same place it does right now, the advertising budget. People get really confused by the idea that Tesla is somehow putting aside 2K from every car sale into a special fund that is used to build superchargers. Tesla can freely decide how much to spend on superchargers each quarter, and it has absolutely zero to do with some funny money accounting about how much superchargers are "earning".
PPU requires a payment system, which requires physical CC reader hardware at each SC location -- or at the very least it requires the user to have a smartphone with a billable Google/Apple account.
I can see there motives for doing one time fee to continue supporting expansion.
This sentence implies there will be two options: "free long distance for life" and another one that will still be cheaper than gasoline, but won't be "free long distance for life". At least that was how most people seemed to have interpreted it.So it will still be very cheap, and far cheaper than gasoline, to drive long-distance with the Model 3, but it will not be free long distance for life unless you purchase that package.
I'd favor giving each car X amount of SC uses or X hours of free supercharging per year, after which point you would have to pay.
Now THERE is an issue. I vote for Curt to get supercharging.What I really want is the opportunity to pay and get Supercharging for my Roadster.
No doubt. Though, you can unwatch threads, and just avoid clicking titles such as "How would you prefer to pay for Supercharging?" That's one reason I changed the title, so it was more descriptive of the content.I don't want to sound surly, but I wish there was a way to filter out any topics that pertain to the subject of supercharging fees or supercharging revenue. I'm not saying the topic is unworthy, it's just that I've reached my saturation point.