I mean, telling people that the fix for this is completely free and I had nothing to do with it is obviously the best possible move for my business. I'm obviously going to make a killing! Take these example conversations with customers:
Customer: How do I fix this issue?
Me: You install a free update from Tesla and just drive normally and wait a while.
Customer: I want to pay you to fix this or to upgrade my battery.
Me: You're usually better off not doing this. It's more cost effective to sell your vehicle and buy one with the upgrade you want.
Yep. That's how to rake in those profits. I can see the millions rolling in already! lol
I do software
and hardware dev, for the record.
Jokes aside, there's probably a bunch of people still affected. It can take a lot of miles to get things back to normal if you're affected by Condition Z, and I definitely underestimated how little some people drive. That said, if you'd read the writeup you'd know that you'd not have access to the "lost" range/capacity regardless of installing the 2019.16 update. You just wouldn't know it wasn't available until you tried to use it. And if I had a fix for this that was better than what Tesla has already done... well, I'd be happy to share it.
I'm on no one's side. People are temperamental and full of motive/bias. I'm only on the side of facts and rational/logical interpretation of said facts. As it stands,
these are the facts.
As I noted, the supercharging limit thing is a whole different can of worms. While my speculation is that this is part of a warranty service avoidance scam, I can't prove that based on the data I have available (yet). It's still definitely not anything safety related.