First Trip/Tesla Adapter Use

[potato]

You get a discount using Tesla App?

There is a monthly subscription you can sign up for. If you are charging more than one or two full charges in a month then it's probably worth it. The catch is, if you just plug in, Plug & Charge will not give you the subscription rates. So you need to activate the charger with the Tesla app **before** plugging in.

It is not necessary to disable Plug & Charge, in theory, if you activate the charger with the Tesla app first. But if anything goes wrong with the Tesla activation, P&C may take over and you might not get the subscription discount. I think this is the reason some say you should disable Plug & Charge. But many people charge regularly using the subscription without disabling P&C, just by always activating the charger with the Tesla app first.

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[Joe.....Montana]

You get a discount using Tesla App?

As potato said, you get a discount if you have the Tesla subscription. It is a monthly subscription you can cancel anytime. I will subscribe before longer road trips when I know I will be hitting a supercharger 4 or 5 times. Also, you don't have to disable Plug and Charge, but a couple times I just plugged into supercharger before activating and it immediately started charging via Blue Oval Network (thus not Tesla member rate). Had to quickly cancel charge, then go into Tesla app and start charge. Sometimes there is a slight delay between ending charge and being able to start a new charge, so I just turn Plug and Charge off. It compensates for me not remembering to start charge session before plugging in.

 

[WaterboyNorCal]

There is a monthly subscription you can sign up for. If you are charging more than one or two full charges in a month then it's probably worth it. The catch is, if you just plug in, Plug & Charge will not give you the subscription rates. So you need to activate the charger with the Tesla app **before** plugging in.

It is not necessary to disable Plug & Charge, in theory, if you activate the charger with the Tesla app first. But if anything goes wrong with the Tesla activation, P&C may take over and you might not get the subscription discount. I think this is the reason some say you should disable Plug & Charge. But many people charge regularly using the subscription without disabling P&C, just by always activating the charger with the Tesla app first.

Exactly this. I haven’t disabled Plug & Charge; I just use the Tesla app to activate the charging pedestal and it works perfectly. Every time. I know it’s not the topic, but if EA had uptime that was even 75% of Teslas, I would be ecstatic.

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