That's dumb - so in addition to $100k, we need to pay another $4,000 to a Tesla installer?
it may not be 4,000 but whatever the price yes, you have to pay it unless you buy a beast. then you get a 4,000 allowance. and if you decide to not pay it then you dont get the "included" hardware. and for some or most people that means you have o buy your own wall connector if thats what you want.
Because tesla won't ship you or him the parts. Only their certified installers.
but also the bed outlets are limited to 9K watts
This is helpful. So, some of the conditions are for sure out of our control and the alternative is worthless to me. I had 3 referrals in the early days where the referral reward was just free supercharging miles. I used none. Bought a LR Model Y recently and would love Acceleration boost, but no referral rewards...anyways back to the topic...
I had free supercharging for life on my Model S and never used it , save for the first day I got it, just to see it work. Seems a little on the stingy side. If they can't do a credit for the amount in dollars why not just give everybody a one year or more? It doesn't seem like that should be such a huge liability for them to offer that just on the foundation run.
I know they make more profit theoretically, on the TriMotor but folks are being asked to pay 20k extra for either and the "extras", it seems silly to give people an install credit on one and not the other. I don't like not getting the hardware myself either and being tied to a specific installer and whatever they decide the price should be.
based on the diagrams on tesla website the gateway needs to sit between the main panel and the power meter. and i believe the wall connector connects directly to the gateway. not sure if that can be accomplished by moving the subpanel the wall connector is connected to connect to the gateway or not.
you dont need 2 seperate circuits, you can power 2 wall connectors from a single <insert size here> amp circuit. the wall connectors will talk to eachother and share the power if more then 1 car is plugged in.
Yes, I'm sure that when both plugs are in, the communications channel opens up and as long as they keep responding, they will allow the switchover.
Simple, communications. PowerShare talks to the house.
It absolutely could, depending on the installation requirements. But up to $4k is included.
only included on beast
That's not good in my case since the meter and panel are on the opposite side of my house than the garage where the now gen 2 wall connector is and would-be universal connector. I would have to run either a long wire for the gateway or for the universal connector, if I can't use the sub panel.
We did see this was possible when setting up what we did. However, I originally had a Model 3 and a mini-van so we only had 1 line going up for 1 wall connector originally. After getting the second tesla and wall connector, we opted to just add another 60amp breaker and run a separate line to the second wall connector, then tie them together via wifi to power-share between them.
In my particular case I live in a rural area where power tends to flicker on and off rapidly about 3-6 times before the power completely goes out. Sometimes it just flickers and then stays on. I don’t know the exact reason it happens on all occasions so it’s pure speculation, but storms definitely are a cause sometimes, sometimes not, aside from that the guess would be a tree falls on a line or brushes against it roughly or someone hits a power pole in a car accident. The point being it isn’t predictable enough to be “only” when a storm approaches.
