I think Tesla should today have a very straightforward communication on this: does free Supercharging transfer to a new owner when you sell your pre-2017 car? Given that the 7 November announcement is probably also meant to trigger some Q4 sales ("AP2+Lifelong Charging, wow!"), it matters, for those sales as well, whether "lifelong charging" survives an eventual resale of Tesla's ordered before 2017.
To recap:
(a) On 7 November Tesla wrote (regarding the new SuC credit policy vs. the former lifelong free Supercharging policy):
"These changes will not impact current owners or any new Teslas ordered before January 1, 2017, as long as delivery is taken before April 1, 2017". The reference to
"current owners" in stead of "
current Tesla's" could indicate Tesla may want to stop "lifelong charging" on an existing car once the current owner sells it (to someone else than Tesla - obviously Tesla can do whatever it wants to cars it buys back itself).
(b) Formerly, the transferability of lifelong free Supercharging was so obvious that it wasn't even worth questioning. June 2013, Q&A on Tesla's website:
"How much does it cost to use the Supercharger? Supercharging is free for the life of Model S, once the Supercharger option is enabled". And :
"Will it always be free? Yes, Superchargers will be free to use for Supercharging-enabled vehicles for the life of Model S". I re-sold my first 2013 Model S in March 2016 (in order to buy an AP1-enhanced new one) and obviously the buyer of my 2013 'Classic' has unlimited SuC-access - that was never in doubt.
(for the record and to ring-fence the question: this is not about whether Tesla should continue its policy of free Supercharging: that's Tesla's decision - the decision it made public on 7 November is, I think, very sane, in the long run - and anyway Tesla is better placed than any one of us on this forum to decide on its policy
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. This is only about what has been promised to existing owners, and trying to understand what precisely is currently being promised in respect of new pre-2017 orders).