How many miles on this car? How long do you want to keep it? If you want it for a long time see if Tesla will wheel and deal and give you perhaps a 90kwh refurb pack and throw in the supercharging. Or at least turn on supercharging and have it as a pay option. I bet that refurb would get you 8 year min
It's a 2014 MS 60. It had just under 40K miles on it when I bought it 3 months ago, now 41.7K miles. I'm coming up on 62 (April this year) and hope to retire in the next 2-4 years. I did plan on keeping this car for many years into retirement.
I love the car, it was well kept and has very low miles. I can count on one hand the number of 150+ mile road trips I've made in the last 35 years. I don't want or need SuC for that.
As I've said before, I just want it as an insurance policy against running low on battery for any number of reasons, in the suburban Chicago area, and having to spend 2-3 hours at a L2 destination charger charging at 5-6kWh rates. If I have to make a couple extra unplanned stops I'd like to be able to go to somevtypevof L3 DC Fast Charger and in 15-30 minutes, go from say 10% SOC to 30-40%, whatever is required to make it back home where I can then use my own L2 home charger at 9 kWh rate, charging up for the next trip.
I'm in sales and work from home. Most of my customers are not fully back in the office and don't have on-prem meetings, but will occasionally meet for lunch. They are all over the Chicago suburbs. I'm in the far west suburbs near Aurora IL. Most of Chicagoland is within range, but the northern suburbs are pushing it. Wisconsin is out, but I don't cover WI, I have a colleague who does. But on occasion I may need to go there for joint calls.
This happened before the holidays, I had a meeting with him in Waukegan, 85 miles from home. That would use approx. 60% of my range. I don't want to get 2/3rds of the way home only to have to sit and park for 1-2 hours to get enough charge to safely make it home! This should be a once-in-a-blue-moon 15 minute stop at a L3 charger. Instead I left the Tesla home and drove my old hybrid and had no issues making the round-trip drive.
Sad that Tesla doesn't have any option for guys like me. This is my first Tesla. I didn't search out a Tesla. I was looking at used cars and not excited with the usual ICEs or hybrids. Then I found this low milage beauty. Did I know all the nuances of all this? No. I did take the car to the SC before I bought it to have it inspected. I was told that enabling SuC would cost me $2.5K not $12K.
Even for my limited use case, $2500 seemed like a lot for a feature I would rarely use, and I decided to hold off until I had some experience with the car, better understood it's actual range, etc.
At $450 plus tax, the CCS option seemed like a good one. The SC didn't do their own due diligence to confirm that my car could use the CCS option, they just sold it and installed it.
Now I'm told it doesn't, and to get it to work requires, sorry, not an additional $2500, but an additional $12,000, but hey it's Unlimited Free SuperCharging, you should be grateful we're giving you this fabulous opportunity. Thanks but no thanks Elon, not interested.
I just won't drive the MS 60 for trips that exceed the range. I'm not going to "wheel and deal" and spend, say, $8K for a feature I will rarely use. I know what my driving pattern is and what I need.
I don't have family in the Midwest that I travel to see. I don't drive cross country. My wife is native Hawaiian. We vacation in Hawaii regularly. I don't drive to there, I drive to O'Hare airport that is well within range (but I will drive the old car to leave it in the lot or take an Uber).
I don't drive to Green Bay for Bears/Packers games. I support a Sales Rep that covers MO, IN, and KY. When I need to go out of state I rent a car from Enterprise rental 5 minutes from my house. Put the wear and tear on a rental car, it's expensible.
20/20 hindsight, do I wish I had done more research and passed on this car and got something with a longer range? Maybe. This car was very clean, had very low milage, and was a very good price. Would I find a similar car and great deal with a bigger battery pack? Maybe, eventually. Sure, an 85, 90, or 100 kWh battery would be nice and would make this irrelevant due to the additional 50 or more miles. Those, even w/o SuC would meet my needs 99.99% of the time vs 95%+ of the time my 60 kWh pack does now.