I was just about to post that I'm waiting for the day they decide to set up shop like a gas station and have a few in every city. I have no doubt it will happen. Just in the area my parents live (Miami), within a 30 min radius they're building 4 new super chargers to make that idea more of a reality.

You're right on the at home charging, who wants to go to the gas station anymore? And as it currently stands, you can travel just about anywhere within the US with a Tesla (it just takes a bit longer due to charging, but the car plans the whole route out for you with charge points and estimated battery life) I also like how the superchargers tend to have food and hotels around, it's an awesome program

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I see them at whole foods when I shop too, but those are different chargers, not from tesla, but I was told they're still free, not sure if thats true.

In Indianapolis there are a lot of EV charging points I see Tesla's at all the time, it's pretty awesome. A lot are free but many cost a few bucks at most. better than the whatever amount I pay with my Jeep, I stopped looking

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Posted by dabigfella

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:17 pm to Old Money

are they really building 4 in miami? I wanted to lease one for my vacation home there a year ago, but the only supercharger close by was like 30 minutes north of miami near ft lauderdale. I didn't see any superchargers on the way to the keys and I had to have a car capable of driving to naples, the keys,orlando when we were down there. If they ever built one on the way to the keys I would definitely lease one for down there.

I also believe with the infrastructure in place tesla will one day be charging non-tesla's to charge at their stations, nothing confirmed, but a guess if I had to make one. I find it hard to believe every automaker is gonna invest in a network of chargers when they probably won't mass produce BEV's

either way its a massive paradigm shift coming imo, i could be wrong who knows, but the people ive spoken with who own teslas cant fathom going back to a non-tesla. Tesla sold more $100k+ cars than anyone last year, extrapolate that dominance into cheaper sectors and I dont see how they wouldn't outsell any brand in any segment if they could produce the quantity of vehicle needed. They cant now but elon promised plans for 3 more gigafactories this year......

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