He only promised Supercharging would be free for life for your Model S. He didn't say anything about future models.
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He only promised Supercharging would be free for life for your Model S. He didn't say anything about future models.
It costs money to include the Supercharging options on the cars, isn't that paying for it?
I doubt they are scaling back on promises, and I doubt free supercharging was meant for Model S only. I believe Musk has said several time it will always be free for all models. My only explanation is the speaker made a terrible, inexcusable mistake. It would really be unfortunately if Europeans were given misleading information about free supercharging.
He only promised Supercharging would be free for life for your Model S. He didn't say anything about future models.
I feel safe with the model S (free charging).
The model X will also fit this bill.
Not sure about SC access in GenIII. Might be an option which needs to be paid for.
Obviously SC are not for all Tesla brand cars. There are about 2.000 of them on the road that cannot use the SCs. Yes, the roadsters. Built in a different era.
He only promised Supercharging would be free for life for your Model S. He didn't say anything about future models.
Yes, this has been asserted. What hasn't been explicitly asserted is that there will be no per-use charge on anything other than the Model S. We (well, I) expect that they will have the same approach for Model X as for Model S, but it's "hazy" to me whether that will carry through for Gen 3. It's just too far out with too many unknowns for me to have a confident expectation.At the Conference Call of the Supercharger Announcement (May 30th, 2013), after 45 minutes Elon Musk did say: "All future cars will have Supercharger capability".
Yes, this has been asserted. What hasn't been explicitly asserted is that there will be no per-use charge on anything other than the Model S. We (well, I) expect that they will have the same approach for Model X as for Model S, but it's "hazy" to me whether that will carry through for Gen 3. It's just too far out with too many unknowns for me to have a confident expectation.
In the video "Superchager Announcement" we can hear Elon Musk say: ""Something that's unique about the Supercharger is that it's free, it's not just free now, it's free forever."
And
"By buying a Tesla you essentially have free long distance travel throughout the country for ever."
He does NOT say that it's only going to be free for the owners of a Model S, right?
But I do agree with you that this discussion will only end when Elon Musk will explicitly say that there will be no per-use charge for the Gen3 vehicle.
In the mean time, I can only say that Elon Musk is a man with principles, and he will stick to his principles.
The man knows what he wants to achieve, and he knows how to realise what he wants to achieve, and he also knows that he will realise what he wants to achieve.
I would like to add one other important aspect.
Every 150 Model Ses that are sold with Supercharger capability, gives Tesla Motors the posibility to finance 1 Supercharger station (150 x $2,000 = $300.000).
If Tesla Motors can sell 15.000 Model Ses with Supercharger capability in one year. And that's very likely to happen in 2013 and certainly in every year as from next year. Than that enables Tesla Motors to finance 100 Supercharger stations.
Now imagine that when 150,000 Gen3 vehicles (with Supercharger capability) will be sold in one year, the Supercharger network will become another source of income for Tesla Motors. Already in the next decade they could be earning a billion $ per year by just adding Supercharger capability to their EV's. Just imagine that they will be making billions of $ by selling pure sunlight to people. How genius is that?