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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.
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LOL, you think it takes 10-15 minutes to fill your car with gas. How strong is the tesla reality distortion field.
EPA limits gas pumps to 10 Gal/min for cars and 40 Gal/min for trucks. I have an 18 gal tank so even if it were set to 5 gal/min that would be 4 minutes + lets say 1 minute to swipe you card.
10-15 minutes no way.
All electric cars + high energy density charges might be great, but let's not pretend that it's comparable. Also tesla is doing this to themselves, placing charges next to starbucks or malls or whatever, where are gas stations located... on street corners or off exit ramps of highways not next to things you want to go and spend a lot of time around, that's why people don't park at the pump and go shopping. This is going to be the issue with high speed charging if all electric cars become any more than a novelty and actually become practical for the masses. If filling time is 2-5x longer than it is now you're going to need a lot more charging stations that you currently have gas pumps especially in population dense areas.
So who can afford a Tesla but not a phone?
This is 100% fair.
What if your phone is charging?
Your Tesla tells you when you car will finish charging, if you think you need 20 minutes grace period I'd suggest you are a perfect candidate for Tesla's fee so you can have the pain modify your insensitivity towards your fellow Tesla owners.
If these cars are smart enough to drive themselves on the highway, why can't they drive themselves away from the charger when they are full, and park themselves? Even better, drop you at the shopping center, go get charged up, then park until you are done shopping and summon them.
we hope to never make any money from it
Imagine their disappointment should their hopes shatter.
Time it.
5 minutes. Yesterday I added 9.253 gallons (I check my mileage) to my tank. From the time it took to hand over my money (I pay cash), fill the tank, get my change and drive away was about 5 minutes. 6 at the outmost and that was because the guy in front of me, who I thought was going to drive away, continued to sit in his car with the engine running until I drove around him.
I you're taking 10 - 15 minutes to fill your tank and pay for it, you're doing something wrong.
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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!
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