BREAKING: @Tesla Supercharger membership packages announced for Non-Tesla EV owners ($0.99/month)

[SteelTerp87]

Let’s hope those of us that managed to pony up the $1/mo are now grandfathered in at 0.01/kwh for life

Haha it was $1/month for reduced pricing. You still pay per kWh at the charger

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[jefro]

All depends on prices. Long trips well worth it Will include other Tesla items like normal Tesla drivers have access to.

Every EV owner needs to start squaking about lack of roofs over chargers. Don't know how many photos I've seen of massive charger locations where the background has roofs over the gas pumps.
I say Hey Joe, where you going with that money in your hand. (Hendrix)

 

[astricklin]

Every EV owner needs to start squaking about lack of roofs over chargers. Don't know how many photos I've seen of massive charger locations where the background has roofs over the gas pumps.
I say Hey Joe, where you going with that money in your hand. (Hendrix)

They should build the canopy with solar panels.

Then eventually install battery systems using retired Bev battery cells and be able to shave the loads when there's large demands so they don't have to pay surge pricing to the utilities

 

[watchdoc]

Correct but that ChaDeMo cable is likely never used and we will be needing the CCS spots soon enough.

200,000 Leaf owners would disagree.....

 

[PiMatrix]

Depending on how many non-teslas sign up plus there are no Chargers that work right now x 12….. it’s basically free money for Elon.

They could also just be gauging if there is real interest out there

If I had to guess maybe they will use the signups to determine where to put some beta non-tesla charge sites? They need to start somewhere.

 

[jefro]

Someone had to test the app/webpage live.

Personally I would have to see the actual cost to decide. If some charge station is full then the $1 may be worth it to get in line.

Supercharger power prices have not been noted to be cheap exactly.

 

[sotek2345]

Someone had to test the app/webpage live.

Personally I would have to see the actual cost to decide. If some charge station is full then the $1 may be worth it to get in line.

Supercharger power prices have not been noted to be cheap exactly.

Availability is key. I would pay a substantial premium to have a station where I need it vs. not having one.

We just did a trip up to the Bangor Maine area and lack of CCS (or even J1772) charging meant we had to take our ICE vehicle (Raptor) instead of my wife's Mach-e. Tesla chargers are there, and if available would have meant we could have used the EV.

Side note: had lots of fun with the Raptor - went down to Bar Harbor and drove out on the sand bar and up the rocky shore onto bar island. Couldn't have done that with the Lightning - larger rocks were 8" to 10".

 

[bryan995]

Let’s hope those of us that managed to pony up the $1/mo are now grandfathered in at 0.01/kwh for life

tesla just called. The subscription was enabled by accident. They are issuing the $0.99 refund

 

[CRAIGC540]

tesla just called. The subscription was enabled by accident. They are issuing the $0.99 refund

Me2

 

[GDN]

200,000 Leaf owners would disagree.....

Demand will eventually change this over time. I'm curious on the newer EA stations if they still include a Chademo charger?

 

[GDN]

For those of you with a Tesla and the app or if you got signed up last night. You can slide your map over Europe, hit the "Search this region" at the top of the screen and it will show the superchargers that non-Teslas can charge at. I'm sure it knows by your GPS (Tesla is very adept at knowing where you are and not asking for craziness just in case) and then you plug in and just tell the app which stall you just plugged into, start charging. The screen will give you pricing and idle fees.

 

[watchdoc]

Demand will eventually change this over time. I'm curious on the newer EA stations if they still include a Chademo charger?

The Leaf is dead by 2025 and ChadeMo along with it. Unfortunately, Nissan doesn't see the opportunity in building it's own ChadeMo network in the USA with their dealerships. Apparently, it's difficult to engineer a ChadeMo adapter for use on other fast charging networks. The most likely scenerio is that the Leaf gets orpahed for high speed charging within 10 years. Until then, ChadeMo chargers are still being installed for now but unless Elon adopts the orphaned Leaf or Unless Biden makes it mandatory that all EV's be served equally, the Leaf will end up being a Level 2 only option relegating it regional use only. That being said, an opensource CCS retrofit might be a possibility.

 

[FlasherZ]

There is one CCS to Tesla adapter in Korea - you can get it here in the US. Early model 3's must have a charge port (electronics) upgrade to use CCS, but most all Tesla's from the last 2 to 3 years can use CCS if you have one of those adapters.

There is another adapter for sale out there that even works on the non-CCS-enabled Teslas, at up to 60 kW.

 

[F150ROD]

Lol just got my 0.99 back

 

[Blainestang]

Demand will eventually change this over time. I'm curious on the newer EA stations if they still include a Chademo charger?

EA said a while back they were going to stop putting Chademo plugs on their chargers.

It's been an obviously dying plug for years and Nissan never should have put it on the 2nd Gen Leaf. It was a disservice to their customers.

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