Tesla Model 3 Owners Will Be Denied Free Supercharger Access

At a shareholder meeting, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that Model 3 owners won't enjoy the same complimentary Supercharger access given to Model S and X drivers
Tesla Model 3 Owners Will Be Denied Free Supercharger Access

The whole Supercharger deal with Tesla always seemed a bit too good to be true. Free, unlimited charging for life? Really? Well, it turns out it is - to an extent - too good to be true, as it seems Model 3 owners won’t be given the same free, unlimited access as Model S and Model X drivers, despite Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggesting to the contrary in the past.

Venture Beat quotes Musk as saying the following at a recent shareholder meeting:

“To date, we wanted to keep it really straightforward and easy. So that’s why the Superchargers are set up, at least to date for people who bought the cars, as free long-distance for life. Obviously that has, fundamentally, a cost. I don’t want to make this some big news headline, but the obvious thing to do is decouple that from the cost of the Model 3. So it will still be very cheap - and far cheaper than gasoline — to drive long-distance with the Model 3, but it will not be free long distance for life unless you’ve purchased that package.”

While this is a shame, we can see why. With hundreds of thousands of deposits put down for Model 3s, accommodating all of those cars on the Supercharger network - even bearing in mind the rate at which it’s expanding - would have no doubt been very difficult and costly. We’ll have to wait and see just how “very cheap” the access ends up being…

Source: Venture Beat via Jalopnik

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Comments

Michael R. T. Jensen

Sucks, but it makes sense. That electricity has to come out of someone’s pocket.

06/01/2016 - 15:17 |
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*socket

06/01/2016 - 15:35 |
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Jason Hafford

That’s like buying a normal car ant getting fuel stations removed…

06/01/2016 - 15:18 |
2 | 7

It’s like buying a normal car, having free fuel, and then having to pay for it. It makes sense why Elon did this, electricity is not free.

06/01/2016 - 15:23 |
2 | 0

No, that’s like buying a regular car and then having to pay for it to fill it up… Oh wait

06/01/2016 - 15:24 |
0 | 0

Not really.
Its more like two people bought a new Audi. The owner of the RS7 gets free fuel. The owner of the A3 has to pay for fuel.

06/01/2016 - 15:24 |
6 | 0

No, it’s like paying for gasoline

06/01/2016 - 15:25 |
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JIM_JDM
06/01/2016 - 15:19 |
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InjunS2K

People who preordered the Model 3 be like:

06/01/2016 - 15:21 |
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Euroaxleenthusiast

In reply to by InjunS2K

AR12Gaming.

06/01/2016 - 15:53 |
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Mickey Mouse

Tesla fans have a new battle cry for going against this: chaaaaarge!

06/01/2016 - 15:28 |
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Tesla Model 3 Owners Will Be Denied Free Supercharger Access
Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Zlatan is not impressed (repetitive joke is repetitive)

06/01/2016 - 15:33 |
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Brent Fabian [Tracker Guy] (#GMT190LivesMatter) (Natsuki)

At least they say it’s cheaper than gas

06/01/2016 - 15:42 |
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Anonymous

Where’s the problem, they aren’t paying 100k$ for the model 3, of course they don’t have the same benefits.

06/01/2016 - 15:56 |
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Alex Andrei

“Elon pls go to hell” - every person who already ordered a Model 3

06/01/2016 - 16:02 |
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Alex Andrei

I can already see the YouTube how to’s: “Hack your Model 3 to work with Superchargers”, “How to install the Model S ROM on your Model 3”

06/01/2016 - 16:04 |
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Lol. Next thing you know, jail broken teslas

06/01/2016 - 16:11 |
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