cpa
Active Member
Reminder to all those who tolerate charge-gate: Tesla never, ever, once, disclosed to us in 2013 anywhere, that network charge speeds would be reduced as our vehicles age. I don't Tesla can claim that as a reasonable expectation. My gas car fills up just as fast as it did 10 years ago. An average consumer shouldn't be required to understand the inner workings of batteries, charging subsystems, resistance, amperage, etc. and how they may or may not change over time.
Plainly and simply, Tesla failed to disclose something it knew would negatively impact our ownership experience after it had our money. I have no care about Tesla's "mission" since part of that mission is to screw loyal customers. Tesla can go 10 feet under as far as I'm concerned!
I think part of Tesla's mission is to render our vehicles obsolete as soon as they can get away with it. Tech is one thing; that is always evolving and there are improvements and enhancements to make owning the latest and greatest appealing to a segment of the population. Not for me; likely not for you, either. We keep our cars for many years. I sold our 1995 Mustang GT convertible with 130,000 miles to buy our S85 in 2014.
But I think Tesla is trying to coerce many of us to abandon our older vehicles in favor of buying a new one. Gaffing the Supercharger rate is one way, especially for those of us who bought into the free and unlimited for life sales pitch.
I think they want as many of these vehicles off the road as possible. Just you wait and see: as more of these cars go out of warranty, battery replacement costs will be through the roof, and these refurbished/remanufactured packs will be just as bad if not worse than the ones that they replaced, likely with artificially induced software restrictions, and we won't know the difference.
But then, I am always game for a good conspiracy theory. They seem to be popular these days . . . .