Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
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Re: Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
#2Assuming the density of superchargers and other comparable infrastructure can/does increase this feels basically fair. I assume this is a nose under the door for all other forms of junk fees and in and of itself will be abused long-term, but as is there does have to be some long term management of the long tail of charging.
Re: Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
#3Assuming the density of superchargers and other comparable infrastructure can/does increase this feels basically fair. I assume this is a nose under the door for all other forms of junk fees and in and of itself will be abused long-term, but as is there does have to be some long term management of the long tail of charging.
Could not agree more. This seems pretty reasonable, but I scoffed reading this part of the article:
> Eventually this problem will mostly go away as they add more chargers.
Maybe the problem will go away but the fees will likely remain and be joined by others.
Electric vehicle fueling seems like one area to be absolutely principled about avoiding vendor lock-in.
Re: Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
#4Does this just go into Tesla's profits?
Re: Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
#5Assuming the density of superchargers and other comparable infrastructure can/does increase this feels basically fair. I assume this is a nose under the door for all other forms of junk fees and in and of itself will be abused long-term, but as is there does have to be some long term management of the long tail of charging.
Could not agree more. This seems pretty reasonable, but I scoffed reading this part of the article: > Eventually this problem will mostly go away as they add more chargers. Maybe the problem will go away but the fees will likely remain and be joined by others. Electric vehicle fueling seems like one area to be absolutely principled about avoiding vendor lock-in.
Tesla has a monopoly on working electric car charging infrastructure. There are other chargers out there but all the others work poorly
Re: Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
#6Assuming the density of superchargers and other comparable infrastructure can/does increase this feels basically fair. I assume this is a nose under the door for all other forms of junk fees and in and of itself will be abused long-term, but as is there does have to be some long term management of the long tail of charging.
Could not agree more. This seems pretty reasonable, but I scoffed reading this part of the article: > Eventually this problem will mostly go away as they add more chargers. Maybe the problem will go away but the fees will likely remain and be joined by others. Electric vehicle fueling seems like one area to be absolutely principled about avoiding vendor lock-in.
> Maybe the problem will go away but the fees will likely remain and be joined by others.
It will only get worse as more people switch to electric vehicles. Currently the only real limitation is physical chargers. At some point it will also be the electrical grid, and other issues.
Re: Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
#7Wait for the lawsuit by people with free supercharging
Re: Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could not agree more. This seems pretty reasonable, but I scoffed reading this part of the article: > Eventually this problem will mostly go away as they add more chargers. Maybe the problem will go away but the fees will likely remain and be joined by others. Electric vehicle fueling seems like one area to be absolutely principled about avoiding vendor lock-in.
Tesla has a monopoly on working electric car charging infrastructure. There are other chargers out there but all the others work poorly
So what is the key to Tesla's competence in maintenance, that the rest of the chargers (and most of the American economy) cannot seem to fathom ?
Re: Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
#9As someone who road trips their Tesla pretty frequently I consider this a massive non-issue. Whatevs.
Re: Tesla launches Supercharger congestion fee at $1 per min at 90% charge
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tesla has a monopoly on working electric car charging infrastructure. There are other chargers out there but all the others work poorly
So what is the key to Tesla's competence in maintenance, that the rest of the chargers (and most of the American economy) cannot seem to fathom ?
From a leadership point of view all it takes is someone at the top saying this will be done. Making Supercharger monitoring and maintenance a priority. As opposed to MBAs seeing it as a cost center to cut against.