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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Tavek

Het gevoel was correct. De lijn heeft stilgelegen voor werken.

En dit in beide fabrieken, GF1 en Fremont:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-late-february

Model 3 production was idled from Feb. 20 to Feb. 24 before resuming at the company’s assembly plant in Fremont, California, according to the company. The automaker makes the Model S sedan, Model X sport utility vehicle and Model 3 at that site and batteries at a plant known as the Gigafactory east of Reno, Nevada.

“Our Model 3 production plan includes periods of planned downtime in both Fremont and Gigafactory 1,” a Tesla spokesman said in an emailed statement. “These periods are used to improve automation and systematically address bottlenecks in order to increase production rates. This is not unusual and is in fact common in production ramps like this.”

De Tesla Superchargers worden ook serieus duurder (relatief ca +30%), dit voor de Teslas die niet of nooit gratis bijladen. Tesla moet en wil natuurlijk verder uitbreiden, en met de megachargers voor de Tesla Semi in vooruitzicht hebben ze het geld ook extra nodig:

https://electrek.co/2018/03/11/tesla...-supercharger/

Tesla officially introduced its paid Supercharger network access plan over a year ago, but it’s only now starting to have a greater impact since virtually only Model 3 owners are on it and the vehicle is just now starting to hit the roads in greater numbers.

And with that, the automaker is now increasing the cost of the paid Supercharger access, but a spokesperson still insists that it ‘will never be a profit center’ for the company.

Just as a reminder, the default Supercharger access model when buying a new Tesla Model S or Model X is already the new pay-per-use model unless the buyer is being referred by an existing Tesla owner, in which case, it reverts to the old unlimited free access model.

Model 3 buyers don’t have access to a referral incentive and therefore, they directly fall under to the new pay-per-use model, which consists of paying per kWh charged from a Supercharger station or per minute of using a station in the states and provinces where Tesla can’t officially “sell” electricity due to local restrictions.

When introducing the program, Tesla said that it aimed to still make the cost of Supercharging cheaper than gasoline and that it doesn’t aim to make its Supercharger network a profit center.

Instead, they want to use the money to keep growing the network which now consists of over 1,180 stations and close to 9,000 Superchargers.

But this week, the rates were updated across the US. Some states saw massive increases of as much as 100 percent – though most regions saw their rates increase by 20 to 40 percent.

For example, Oregon saw an increase of $0.12 to $0.24 per kWh, while California, Tesla’s biggest market in the US, got an increase from $0.20 to $0.26 kWh and New York’s rate went from $0.19 to $0.24 per kWh.

We asked for Tesla to comment on the increase and a spokesperson sent us the following statement:

“We occasionally adjust rates to reflect current local electricity and usage. The overriding principle is that Supercharging will always remain significantly cheaper than gasoline, as we only aim to recover a portion of our costs while setting up a fair system for everyone. This will never be a profit center for Tesla.”

The new rate can be seen on Tesla’s website here:
https://www.tesla.com/support/supercharging?redirect=no