Tesla's Contradictory Messages: Is Supercharging Unlimited, Or Not? - Green Car Reports
At Tesla’s annual shareholders’ meeting earlier this month, CEO Elon Musk groused about Model S owners who aggressively use the company’s Superchargers for their local driving. For Model S owners fortunate enough to live near the lightning-fast free chargers, it just wasn’t cool to regularly use them for local driving, he said. DON'T MISS: Life With Tesla Model S: Local Supercharger Joys & Frustrations. As one of those lucky Model S owners, that was news to me. Since the beginning, Tesla’s website and public statements have touted the Superchargers as “free for life,” with no hint of any such road-trip-only limitations. At the same moment Musk was castigating local Supercharger users, in fact, Tesla’s website carried the flat statement “Customers are free to use the (Supercharger) network as much as they like”--in two different places. A few days after Musk’s pronouncement, that statement disappeared from one of the two Tesla website pages on which it had previously appeared: the one at teslamotors. com/supercharger continued (as of June 22) to say that customers were free to use the Supercharger network as much as they liked. Meanwhile, Tesla owners’ forums report that e-mails from the company announcing the opening of new Superchargers now include the phrase “free long-distance charging. Source: www.greencarreports.com
