Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations (techcrunch.com)

Tesla announced today that it will start charging owners a fee of $0.40 per minute if they fail to move their vehicles at a Supercharger station. If drivers don't move their cars within 5 minutes of the car hitting 100 percent, the fee will begin to assess. TechCrunch reports: "One would never leave a car parked at a gas station right at the pump and the same rule applies with Superchargers," read Tesla's announcement. How will one know that it's done and you need to scoot? Why, one will get an alert on one's phone, of course, via the Tesla app. One already does, in fact. So one never had any excuse. "To be clear, this change is purely about increasing customer happiness and we hope to never make any money from it," the announcement also reads.

Comments

Re: phone

[Mr D from 63]

So who can afford a Tesla but not a phone?

This is 100% fair.

What if your phone is charging?

Hope

[jgullstr]

we hope to never make any money from it

Imagine their disappointment should their hopes shatter.

Re:It might be an issue in the future

[EvilSS]

In the USA, diesel is unpopular for passenger cars because we had some crappy diesels in the 80s and then we got crappy emissions laws that unfairly penalized diesels even though gasoline vehicles pollute more, and their pollution is more hazardous.

Found the VW emissions engineer!