Did you read the part where owners of salvage vehicles can have their car inspected and re-certified for use?
No other automaker in the world requires an owner to “recertifify”, at the owner’s expense, a vehicle that has been repaired so that major features on the car continue to work.
I would even argue to some extent that because mobile/app and supercharger access are such an integral part of a Tesla, that they don’t even have the right to restrict access to these networks as they see fit. They must offer fair and reasonable access to all owners, regardless of if they bought the car from Tesla, from a 3rd party, or from a scrapyard.
I’m not by any means saying they must give away these services for free (except on cars that free supercharging was included on, for example). But they cannot discriminate against certain users or prevent certain users from accessing these services while allowing others to use them. That’s not ok.
If they want to require “recertification” before allowing salvage titled cars back on the supercharging network, they must at the very least make this policy crystal clear, public, and transparent. Including having the ability for anyone to look up the status of a given VIN RE supercharging, and making the recertification cost public and reasonable (I would consider less than $500 reasonable). No owner or prospective owner should have to play a “lottery” to see if their car might at some future date get blocked from the network. That’s crazy.
Tesla also needs to seriously step up its game when it comes to supporting independent and self-repair efforts. Tesla is absolutely terrible when it comes to complying with right to repair laws and providing parts and diagnostic tools to owners and independent shops.
They go so far as to require a VIN # to purchase (even basic) parts, and from what I hear ban/block salvage VINs from even purchasing. They also seem to put a limit on the number of parts a given user can order. These tactics all add up to a mafia-like monopoly, where only Tesla and their cronies (“certified shops”) can work on Tesla’s, which ultimately hurts us all in the long wrong and means repair costs will continue to be artificially high, repair times will continue to increase, and insurance rates on Tesla’s will continue to increase into the stratosphere.
I absolutely hate car dealerships... but when it comes to parts, service and support, the model is clearly MUCH more consumer friendly. Tesla still has a chance to get this right. But to do that, they need to open up the diagnostic tools and device manuals to everyone for a reasonable cost, let anyone that wants to order any parts they want to, and get their parts supply chain in order so it is actually possible to, knowing a car’s VIN, order the correct parts and get them in a reasonable amount of time (max 2 weeks).