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Does your user experience rating take into account interoperability (or lack thereof of e.g superchargers) and service center and replacement part availability?

jsight 6y ago
I'm going to guess it does and is graded against his own personal experience with other vehicles.
- 1234letshaveatw 6y ago
  I'm going to guess it doesn't- as the supercharging network is a closed platform which is a problem for any vehicle other than a Tesla
  - djrogers 6y ago
    Which is a net benefit for a tesla owner. Less competition for charging space, plus less abuse of the chargers = better experience for a tesla owner.
mynameisvlad 6y ago
Why would a Tesla owner care about interoperability? The supercharger network is clearly a selling point for Tesla. Why do they need to allow access to other manufacturers? Why would they even want to do that? I mean, this whole article is about how Tesla invested in a charging infrastructure that is leaps and bounds above all competitors. The whole point is that Tesla decided that was a requirement before scaling up production and it is a key reason why people choose their EVs over the competition.
- netsharc 6y ago
  Huh, true, if Tesla allowed other cars to use the Supercharger, then the chances of a Tesla owner arriving to a fully occupied Supercharger location (full of all kinds of car brands) would increase quite a lot. But if Elon was serious about what he said about climate, and wanting to turn the car industry electric, he should do exactly that, so that more people get electric cars, regardless of the brand.
  - oneplane 6y ago
    Elon is likely playing a longer game, just like the 'make a luxury car', 'make a better slightly cheaper car', 'make a normal car' line of thought where you hope to earn enough at each stage to make the whole factory, cell production, car, production, charging network, governmental interaction viable (economically, politically, environmentally, socially). After it's possible to do it and not lose everything in the process, then you can do the "let's team up with the competition that didn't thing of this themselves"-game. Because that is what it boils down to: before the whole Tesla and Musk thing it was not really a thing to have a good all-electric car experience. Heck, even a good software experience wasn't available (in any car). It takes quite a beating for the other car manufacturers the get off of their collective asses en start doing something new. (and no, creating a different design isn't new, they have been re-designing for decades - new would be a paradigm shift or beginnings of a shift)

jsight 6y ago

I'm going to guess it does and is graded against his own personal experience with other vehicles.

1234letshaveatw 6y ago
I'm going to guess it doesn't- as the supercharging network is a closed platform which is a problem for any vehicle other than a Tesla
- djrogers 6y ago
  Which is a net benefit for a tesla owner. Less competition for charging space, plus less abuse of the chargers = better experience for a tesla owner.

mynameisvlad 6y ago

Why would a Tesla owner care about interoperability? The supercharger network is clearly a selling point for Tesla. Why do they need to allow access to other manufacturers? Why would they even want to do that? I mean, this whole article is about how Tesla invested in a charging infrastructure that is leaps and bounds above all competitors. The whole point is that Tesla decided that was a requirement before scaling up production and it is a key reason why people choose their EVs over the competition.

netsharc 6y ago
Huh, true, if Tesla allowed other cars to use the Supercharger, then the chances of a Tesla owner arriving to a fully occupied Supercharger location (full of all kinds of car brands) would increase quite a lot. But if Elon was serious about what he said about climate, and wanting to turn the car industry electric, he should do exactly that, so that more people get electric cars, regardless of the brand.
- oneplane 6y ago
  Elon is likely playing a longer game, just like the 'make a luxury car', 'make a better slightly cheaper car', 'make a normal car' line of thought where you hope to earn enough at each stage to make the whole factory, cell production, car, production, charging network, governmental interaction viable (economically, politically, environmentally, socially). After it's possible to do it and not lose everything in the process, then you can do the "let's team up with the competition that didn't thing of this themselves"-game. Because that is what it boils down to: before the whole Tesla and Musk thing it was not really a thing to have a good all-electric car experience. Heck, even a good software experience wasn't available (in any car). It takes quite a beating for the other car manufacturers the get off of their collective asses en start doing something new. (and no, creating a different design isn't new, they have been re-designing for decades - new would be a paradigm shift or beginnings of a shift)