Model Y can now be had with free lifetime Supercharging (image: Tesla)
What can be better than a new Tesla Model Y with free charging for life? The many thousands of Tesla owners who are riding on older electric vehicles can now transfer their free unlimited Supercharger sessions offer that came with the car to new purchases.
At this week’s conference call, Elon Musk mentioned that Tesla still expects to hit the 1.8 million unit sales forecast for the year. This means that it has to sell quite a lot more electric cars this current quarter than in Q3 and Tesla is seemingly doing everything it can to spur demand.
After the Model 3 and Model Y recently got their umpteenth price cut for the year, Tesla also updated the tax credit eligibility wording, urging future owners to take delivery before year’s end if they want to qualify for the full US$7,500 amount. It has now found another way to push customers into delivery by December 31 to pad those Q4 sales numbers, free charging for life.
There are many thousands of Tesla car owners that still enjoy the free lifetime Supercharger sessions benefit that Tesla was doling out as a purchase incentive years ago when its fleet was still rather small. It later reneged on that offer as it became “unsustainable” and it complained that the costs to maintain it are running into the tens of millions.
Those who upgrade to a Tesla Model Y or S or X by year’s end, however, will be able to transfer their old lifetime charging perk to the new vehicle. Here are the free charging transfer conditions:
Delivery must be taken before 11:59 PM on December 31 and the offer is valid for pending orders.The older vehicle and the new VIN have to be on the same account at Tesla.Excludes salvaged titles or vehicles gotten with price adjustments like loyalty bonuses.One-time only transfer that doesn’t require a trade-in.
In short, there might be quite a few new Model Y and other Tesla vehicles on the road with free lifetime Supercharging next quarter.
As Tesla’s NACS connector becomes the de facto industry charging standard adopted by major automakers like Toyota, however, Supercharger stations may become quite busy at peak times. It seems that Tesla is aware of that and may be fighting Supercharger congestion with a new fee.
Tucked in the source code of its latest 2023.38 software update that brings Supercharger wait times forecast, is a way for Tesla to make those who remove the 80% charging limit pay extra. Currently, the 80% threshold at busy Supercharger stations can be easily overridden without any penalties.
In the future, however, Tesla may decide to apply something like its per-minute idle fees if the owner removes the limit and lingers on after 80% while charging at peak times. The ability seems to now be embedded in the software and it’s just a matter of Tesla deciding when to flip the switch on the eventual Supercharger congestion fee.
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Peeked a bit into 2023.38, lots of stuff seems to be in motion.
Congestion fees added (if you charge above 80% on a congested supercharger)
“object on road” pushed by map service (waze-like, but detected by (other tesla) car visions?)
option to autodial 911 on airbag deploy
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Wooed by tech since the industrial espionage of Apple computers and the times of pixelized Nintendos, Daniel went and opened a gaming club when personal computers and consoles were still an expensive rarity. Nowadays, fascination is not with specs and speed but rather the lifestyle that computers in our pocket, house, and car have shoehorned us in, from the infinite scroll and the privacy hazards to authenticating every bit and move of our existence.
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