re: Tesla sued over non-performance for promised free charging for life.

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Charge your car at home

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Yes, until your local electric reliability council deems your home car charger as "non-essential" and either shuts it down or lowers the charging rate to a trickle.

So unless you live in Texas or California, or some place where extreme heat, extreme cold or wildfires are an issue, you should be good.

This would never happen you say? It's Already Happening With Smart Thermostats.

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How long does it take to charge a Tesla?

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Depends on many factors.

Are you charing at home or a supercharger?

Are you trying to fully charge to 100% or just to get to your next destination?

Are you down to say, 10 miles left and need to go up to 200 miles or are you at 120 miles and need to go to 200?

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And they also throttle the charging based on amount of other cars which prevents from fully charging at normal speeds

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For older superchargers, this is correct. For the stations with the newer superchargers, everyone can charge at full speed, regardless of how many cars are charging.

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They build the charging stations at targets to incentivise the charging experience. The warning text, assuming good reception in store, comes fast. If you are in checkout line, do you leave?

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You get a notification when fully charged, but there's nothing stopping you from checking your Tesla app to see how much time you have left so you can plan ahead for that.

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So, this guy plugs in, leaves it plugged in, then decides to go shopping, out to dinner, visit a crack house, whatever, leaving his car connected to a Supercharger like a dick, preventing other Tesla owners from using the Supercharger, and is pissed that Tesla charges him a fee for his selfishness?

I hope Tesla wins this one, although in Alameda County I kind of doubt it. I used to work in Alameda. People there are a-holes.

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All they have to do is declare the charging is free but the non charging parking time costs x amount per min or hour or whatever.

Is the government (us tax payers) paying for them to charge for free? Or does Tesla supported by tax credits foot the bill with their negative profit and we pay for it that way?

Doesn't seem like they're charging him to charge his car. They're charging him for not letting other people charge their cars.

Sorry I struck a nerve. I am certain you and all other EV owners are smarter than the average smart thermostat owners and read all your EUA's and every page of every contract.

My assertion (I prefer the word speculation) that this is a future possibility is based on trends, namely increased demands placed on electric power grids, from EV's, population growth, etc., as well as restrictions on reliable generation (NG fired) in favor of less reliable wind and solar power.

At some point, load leveling will become a necessary tool to manage peak load demand, and your home A/C and EV charger are prime candidates for "adjustments". Just because you didn't sign up for it today doesn't mean you will have an opt-in/out choice in the future.

My speculation may prove be wrong or right, only time will tell.

ETA:
1. Somewhat related - did you know that your car, if it's newer than model year 2013, has a "black box" event recorder? If you do, you're the exception, as it isn't widely publicized and you have dig into your owner's manual to find any mention of it. Now, did you opt-in for that feature?

2. Picture a scenario in the near-future. A power system operator is experiencing high power demand, enough that it's eating into his system reserves, enough to where his options on curbing demand to prevent a system collapse are:
a) rolling brown- or black-outs, or
b) send a command to car chargers to roll back temporarily and/or to smart thermostats to extend their off-times or raise their temperature setting, again temporarily.

From a power system operator, which is the least bad option? Faced with such an emergency, your opt-in or opt-out may be irrelevant. Because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.

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1. Somewhat related - did you know that your car, if it's newer than model year 2013, has a "black box" event recorder? If you do, you're the exception, as it isn't widely publicized and you have dig into your owner's manual to find any mention of it. Now, did you opt-in for that feature?

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Have you ever looked at the full list of cars with event data recorders in them? The list is 100s long with the vast majority of the models not being EVs.

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Hardly - I actually read contracts and EUA's, and no one controls my thermostat but me. But thanks for playing.

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If you knew this, then why did you make the entirely irrelevant comparison?