So they won't be truly 'free'.
HK really presents an unique challenge for Tesla. There's really zero free 'space'. How crazy is this town?!
One problem with having them in regular carparks is that people will park the car and go shopping... or go watch a movie. so they may park and take up a supercharger for 2hours when they only need top top it off in 20 mins. and that super charger will be occupied for the remaining 100 mins!
If the spaces are really limited, there need to be some kind of
valet service. Leave your fob with a
trusted, Tesla Motors approved person, and once charging is at the level you require, they can shift your car to a non-charging spot. For Tesla to
avoid a lot of trouble and bad PR, employing staff to do this full time would be very useful if not vital. To help offset the salary of that staff,
extra (paid) services could be offered, like window cleaning, tire pressure top-up, or maybe even washing the car, vacuum cleaning etc. Could you imagine going shopping/dining/cinema, and come back to a washed, vacuum cleaned and charged up car? If you are a careful and quality minded person, it wouldn't take much of an education/training to undertake this kind of job. Drivers license and command of English and Cantonese (possibly Mandarin also), along with the right personality, would suffice.
I'm not sure how it all is going to work in practical and legal terms, but it would surely make supercharger utilisation much more efficient - and prevent the need for people to
come back and move their car. "Free superchargers" might be limited in the Hong Kong market to be for a certain amount of time, i.e. free for one hour pr day pr car, after that, pay xx HKD pr hour to occupy the spot. What else is going to keep people from overstaying, even when there is a line-up of others wanting to charge? I'm not saying you and me, but there will be many of those who couldn't care less about anyone but themselves.
