Does Tesla is introducing new paid ‘premium connectivity’ package to support in-car internet features of growing fleet mean that if I’m unable to order AWD before July 1 then I’m stuck with another $100 per year?
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Premium Connectivity Package and Order Date
- Thread starter D3xDt3Reaction
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Sounds like any car order not in before July 1 will have to add the optional package. I agree that Model 3 res holders should count as ‘orders’ since they have intent to order already made.
Yeah, I’d probably mash the order button within minutes if AWD would show up in the configurator already!
Piney999
Member
We need details on this. I have so many feelings on this, I just need the details. This will be interesting, and I hope Tesla gets it right.
FlatSix911
Porsche 918 Hybrid
Correct, orders after July 1st with premium package get a free year, then a $100 per year for navigation traffic maps and music streaming.
Agreed. I was probably being a little rhetorical here - mostly I’m worried about the AWD ordering pickle this puts us in. I stood in line on March 31 and am hoping I won’t have to pay more (for connectivity) because I want to pay more (for AWD).
They said ordered, not delivered. Seems clear to me. What’s open to interpretation?
An order means you’ve paid the final deposit of $2500 or whatever for that model.
It sounds like reservations deposits are not orders and he's talking about orders. I might be wrong.
Odenator
Member
If they are going to charge money for music streaming, then Tesla should make sure that the service is reliable and doesn't drop in the middle of listening like it currently happens in all of my Teslas.
JeffK
Well-Known Member
Let me just go check and see if I can place an order for the Performance version. Nope. Gee thanks Tesla. 
But they are maybe going to reopen AWD/P orders early next week and definitely before July 1, right? Right?Let me just go check and see if I can place an order for the Performance version. Nope. Gee thanks Tesla.
Glamisduner
Active Member
pretty lame move.
Removing the alcantara headliner then pushing back my delivery estimate, and now because of the outside back I will have to pay extra to stream music get updates and user maps and internet....
This car just gets worse as time goes on. No sirius or xm music option, then jacking up the price to use their alternative? How much extra is the roadside assistance per year that I will also have to pay for due to having no spare tire option? what if i don't want to drain the battery in my phone or pay overages to stream music? Guess I'm out of luck...
Thinking about cancelling my order due to principal. Lots of new electric cars will be coming out soon from other manufacturers...
It's one thing to change expectations for new customers (still sucks but acceptable), but to hose people who have been waiting so long who can not order now due to no fault of their own is another thing altogether.
Basically it's another announcement to preorder customers that they are going to be downgrading their model 3s, but oh, hey, thanks for the free loan and believing in us...
And don't bother trying to explain to me that $100 per year fee shouldn't make or brake the deal for someone buying 65k car. I get taxed enough on everything else in CA, that I won't be buying this now extra option one way or another.
It's essential the same as $1000 to $1500 price increase for the same car we all pre-ordered and thought we were getting.
Removing the alcantara headliner then pushing back my delivery estimate, and now because of the outside back I will have to pay extra to stream music get updates and user maps and internet....
This car just gets worse as time goes on. No sirius or xm music option, then jacking up the price to use their alternative? How much extra is the roadside assistance per year that I will also have to pay for due to having no spare tire option? what if i don't want to drain the battery in my phone or pay overages to stream music? Guess I'm out of luck...
Thinking about cancelling my order due to principal. Lots of new electric cars will be coming out soon from other manufacturers...
It's one thing to change expectations for new customers (still sucks but acceptable), but to hose people who have been waiting so long who can not order now due to no fault of their own is another thing altogether.
Basically it's another announcement to preorder customers that they are going to be downgrading their model 3s, but oh, hey, thanks for the free loan and believing in us...
And don't bother trying to explain to me that $100 per year fee shouldn't make or brake the deal for someone buying 65k car. I get taxed enough on everything else in CA, that I won't be buying this now extra option one way or another.
It's essential the same as $1000 to $1500 price increase for the same car we all pre-ordered and thought we were getting.
I think it would be lame if Model 3 reservationists were excluded as they have no way to make the deadline.
However it’s not the same as increasing the car price by 1000 or 1500. You are saying you are prepaying for over a decade of connectivity which is not the case. That’s an amount that needs to be amortized over the duration of ownership.
It’s a bad PR move but you are literally crying over what amounts to 27 cents per day revenue to a company they burns 9000 dollars per minute.
ProphetM
Member
Don't be silly, no one here is literally crying.
I am quite disappointed though. I stood in line, and I've been sitting on my invite since March waiting for white interior to be available, and this essentially means It'll cost me another thousand or more dollars, for the privilege of having to wait for them to start making the version I want. The AWD is still not available to me yet, either.
I am quite disappointed though. I stood in line, and I've been sitting on my invite since March waiting for white interior to be available, and this essentially means It'll cost me another thousand or more dollars, for the privilege of having to wait for them to start making the version I want. The AWD is still not available to me yet, either.
Yes, I know. I said reservations should be counted since all the people waiting to order a 3 will now have to pay extra through no fault of their own. They would have ordered before July 1 if they could have (in most cases).