I find this thread funny. Back in 2013, was talking to the SC folks about the problems of mass market buyers. I’m not the 1%. I’m the 100+ hour week job to pay for the 6.5 year loan crowd. I would never ever pay that for a typical ICE luxury car.
Superchargers are a sore spot for me. I and many early adopters bought into Elon’s dream speeches. “Drive free on the sun forever” just pay this $2,000 supercharging investment to help Elon build it. 1 stall per 17 cars. Elon/ J.B. Interview stated ~ $50 was hardware/software in the car. The rest was for land lease, buildout, solar and electric. Designed to the spec 50,000 miles per car(10% of 500,000 mile vehicle life goal). Somehow they made $2k cost, mandatory in 2014 then claimed it was free supercharging, then said no more free, but we still keep the money, then finally reduced the base price $2k in ~2017. Then added free back in the sales pitch! Just stick to the original 2012 business plan, it was a winner. Oh and I forgot “fast or free” dream plan. If charging to charge costs more than a pack swap, reintroduce pack swaps for teslas. 40$ for 2 fully charged batteries was t bad. I do feel my investment to create sustainable transport has somehow been compromised by charging model 3 owners for something I paid money so neither of us should have to pay for again. I feel Tesla has compromised their sustainable transport goal. Superchargers went from a self sustainable forever plan, to a cost recovery / penalty model. That needs fixing.