Lease cars and Supercharging

[Zakalwe]

I'm sure I've seen something on here, but I'm struggling to find it.

What's the story with leased cars and SuC? I Supercharged twice last week (more of an experiment than actual need), and the app showed what the cost would be. The thing is that I haven't added a credit card to my Tesla account. The car is a company car through a fleet operator.

How does the charge (no pun intended!) come to me? Or does it??

 

[spooksman]

You will have to put a credit card on your account and it will get billed. If there's not one on there (like you said) I think they will email you and ask you to add a credit card.

My car is leased and the bills come off the account registered credit card.

Unless you have a referral credit on there of course...

 

[LukeUK]

I added a credit card to my account via the website login, that gets charged and I can download invoices etc.

If you haven't got free supercharger miles, I guess you might be getting a bill from the lease company.

 

[spooksman]

I guess you might be getting a bill from the lease company

In my experience, that would include the addition of a 'handling charge', so might be worth checking...

 

[LukeUK]

Yup, and probably a handling charge for the handling charge......

 

[Zakalwe]

Thanks guys.
I've remembered that I used a referral code when I placed the order. The fleet team included that on the order, so maybe that's accounting for it? There's no free miles listed in my loot box though?

 

[Alistairuk]

It will allow you to charge at least once without a card registered (maybe even a few times that day) but once Tesla attempt to bill you, it will apparently block you until you add a card / settle the outstanding payment.

 

[spooksman]

Your loot box won't show anything on a lease car I'm afraid.

The only way to see your referral miles/credit is via your Tesla account and the Supercharger history, where your charges will be charged at zero. It will also show how much 'free stuff' you have left.

Not great, but Tesla and leasing is a bit of a mess for the driver...

 

[Zakalwe]

Your loot box won't show anything on a lease car I'm afraid.

The only way to see your referral miles/credit is via your Tesla account and the Supercharger history, where your charges will be charged at zero. It will also show how much 'free stuff' you have left.

Not great, but Tesla and leasing is a bit of a mess for the driver...

A-ha..the penny drops. Thank you!

i can see the charges in there and how many kWhs are left.

 

[Mr H]

You have only 6 months to use it up starting from delivery date

 

[Zakalwe]

You have only 6 months to use it up starting from delivery date

Thanks for that.
The nearest Supercharger to me is an 80 mile round trip. Hopefully we can get back to some normality and I can start doing some business miles before the offer expires.

 

[LukeUK]

Just dropping into this....I intend to get a company car, leased. M3LR. To get the referal free charger miles, it can be added after, or needs to be done at time of order?

Good luck, our lease company weren't interested in the slightest. As above, it needs to be added at the point of order.

 

[Zakalwe]

Try and see if they will use the Tesla order form (they will have to at some point!). There is a specific space to include a referral code

 

[JoeT2021]

It will allow you to charge at least once without a card registered (maybe even a few times that day) but once Tesla attempt to bill you, it will apparently block you until you add a card / settle the outstanding payment.

Just spoken to Tesla (people know this already), but for lease cars, you still need to add in a credit car in your Tesla account to use Supercharger, under "Account"

 

[Tigermad]

When will you see the free miles, when the car gets activated in the app after delivery?

 

[MrBadger]

The free miles only appear when car is delivered and sometimes even then, the finance company seems to keep them for themselves.

 

[Bantam]

When will you see the free miles, when the car gets activated in the app after delivery?

if it’s a lease car (as per the title of the thread) you won’t see the free miles in your account until you start using supercharger network see post #8 & #9 further up