Taking delivery of my Model S 2018 75d

[marinusx]

Hello!

Next week ill take delivery of my Model S 75d 2018 with free supercharging, i am super excited but wondering if i should know a few things before i go out and drive!

Thanks!

 

[Krash]

Driving is pretty straightforward. Charging is more nuanced. Is this your first electric car?

If you haven’t done much supercharging, one trick is to always dial up the charging limit when supercharging, just in case you get delayed: run into an old friend, fall asleep, are held up getting food served, etc. It’s expensive to pay overage fees for the privilege of NOT charging.

More importantly, Free Unlimited Suoercharging from 2018 shouldn’t transfer. It should be disabled when you change account owners and/or retitle the car. Transferable Free Unlimited Suoercharging ended just after 2016.

 

[marinusx]

Driving is pretty straightforward. Charging is more nuanced. Is this your first electric car?

If you haven’t done much supercharging, one trick is to always dial up the charging limit when supercharging, just in case you get delayed: run into an old friend, fall asleep, get delayed getting food served, etc. It’s expensive to pay overage fees for the privilege of NOT charging.

More importantly, Free Unlimited Suoercharging from 2018 shouldn’t transfer. It should be disabled when you change account owners and/or retitle the car. Transferable Free Unlimited Suoercharging ended just after 2016.

Yes, this will be my first electric car. We can keep the free supercharging on since its not switching owners officially.

Ill mostly try to supercharge since its free

 

[marinusx]

Driving is pretty straightforward. Charging is more nuanced. Is this your first electric car?

If you haven’t done much supercharging, one trick is to always dial up the charging limit when supercharging, just in case you get delayed: run into an old friend, fall asleep, get delayed getting food served, etc. It’s expensive to pay overage fees for the privilege of NOT charging.

More importantly, Free Unlimited Suoercharging from 2018 shouldn’t transfer. It should be disabled when you change account owners and/or retitle the car. Transferable Free Unlimited Suoercharging ended just after 2016.

its also build 12/2018, so i think it has MCU2

 

[PCMc]

Yes, this will be my first electric car. We can keep the free supercharging on since its not switching owners officially.

Ill mostly try to supercharge since its free

Realize that even without switching owners in the app, if Tesla realizes that car has changed hands, then they will likely strip off the FUSC. At least that’s what I’d expect in the US where it could be considered fraud to hide the ownership change from Tesla in order to retain FUSC benefit.

 

[vcor]

its also build 12/2018, so i think it has MCU2

Yes, it should be MCU2. You can use my MCU identifier - type this in on the car's browser: teslatap.com/mcu to confirm which MCU is installed.

 

[marinusx]

Realize that even without switching owners in the app, if Tesla realizes that car has changed hands, then they will likely strip off the FUSC. At least that’s what I’d expect in the US where it could be considered fraud to hide the ownership change from Tesla in order to retain FUSC benefit.

It’s a lease car, the owner won’t change.