https://pay.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/5bgdp5/another...
Apparently they're getting hogged up by ride sharing companies. Some even have their cleaning crews scheduled to show up at the super chargers to clean while they're charging.
I hope Tesla changes their system so that once a vehicle is fully charged, the user would be charged for the time that they remain hooked up beyond a full charge. Sort of like how Amazon AWS charges for reserved but unused public IPs. Much like an unused IP, being hooked up to the charger while not actually charging might not be "consuming anything", it is preventing others from using it.
This would discourage people from leaving their vehicles overnight or plugged in for hours on end. From my understanding the SC's are for quick charges so that travelers can get on their way quickly, preventing others from using them should incur a cost.
With the Model 3 coming, I imagine competition from Chevy and others will keep prices low, so that means a cooked in premium to pay for the Supercharger network isn't in the cards anymore. Personally, I prefer things this way. Whenever a resource is free, it means the average users are simply subsidizing the heaviest users, who are often abusing the service, like ride sharing and taxi services are now. Metered pricing with a lowered up-front makes a lot more sense.
EDIT: Ah, there's still a cable plugged in the side!
Then what about reading signs on the parking lot, if it parks on a reserved or handicapped spot?
Tesla's self park at home (forgot what they called it) is basically meant to just drive straight into a garage. That's not going to do that job.
Yes.
And it's more of a concept video. I wouldn't be surprised if it was exaggerated with assumptions (like say Tesla knowing the maps layout + sign placements on the roads+lot), because the real problem is far from being solved. Even google uses high resolution maps for it's cars.
They could probably reduce that problem by opening fee based charging stations closer to the populations the cars serve. Time is money and all that.
The reddit post is merely a current iteration of a common complaint popping up on various forums and customer feedback tools for a while now.
Elon and Tesla likely are aware of commercial use of SC stations for a long time now.
The point of posting the most-current-iteration-reddit post isn't "Elon saw this and changed the program 12 hours later" but rather "here's today's discussion of last years problem that perhaps Elon is fixing today"