Tesla Shareholder Meeting 2016
Questions on ElonsFAQ asked in this interview (1)
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0:00Audience MemberHi, my name is Haydn and I'm a shareholder. I got my 85D last July and since then it's gotten about 150,000 miles or so on it. And even with daily full recharging, we've only lost about 6% total battery capability.
0:15Audience MemberAnd there's been no real maintenance cost except for like four sets of tires.
0:20Elon MuskBut so my question is, depends on which tires you. Oh, this sounds like you have the high performance tires, man.
0:25Audience MemberNo, 19.
0:26Elon MuskReally? Okay, a lot of miles maybe.
0:29Audience MemberLike, regarding the free long distance travel and superchargers for life, how long do you intend to act on that? And then once the Model 3 comes out and there's upwards of 500,000amillion cars out there, how are you going to keep up with that?
0:44Elon MuskRight? I mean, today we wanted to make it really straightforward and easy. So that's why the superchargers are set up at least to date for people that have bought the car as free long distance for life.
1:02Elon MuskObviously that has fundamentally a cost. And so I think, I mean, I don't want to make this some big news headline, but the obvious thing to do is to decouple that from the cost of the Model 3.
1:17Elon MuskSo it will still be very, very cheap and far cheaper than gasoline to drive long distance with the Model 3. But it will not, it will not be free long distance for life unless you purchase that package.
1:31Elon MuskIt's not like I wish we could. This is not. But in order to achieve the economics, it has to be something like that, you know, but, you know, it's like, I want to just emphasize like what Tezo's motivation is, is to make electric transport as affordable as possible.
1:50Elon MuskThat is what informs all of our actions. So if we do something and we charge for this or charge for that, it is not because, you know, we want to make things more expensive, is because we can't figure out how to make it less expensive.
2:07Elon MuskThat's all. It also just sort of pains us to see people misvaluing their time at supercharged stations so often. It is far more convenient and faster for you overall to charge at home or at work.
2:23Elon MuskIt takes one second to plug in. You don't have to go to a separate location and wait for the car to be there. And time and time again, we see people that drive to a supercharged station, sit in their car, wait there for 20, 30 minutes and then drive to a different destination.
2:37Elon MuskAnd if they do the math and the value of their time, it makes no sense. Yeah, I think part of it is just people are used to a paradigm where they go to a gas station to fill up, and that's just normal.
2:52Elon MuskSo then they get an electric car. It's like, oh, I need to go to the supercharging station to fill up, because that's what's normal. But actually, the best thing to do with an electric car is to charge your car, where you charge your phone.
3:06Elon MuskLike, you know, would you really take your phone to a gas station? Like, no. So I think a lot of it is just people kind of. They're used to an old way of doing things, and they kind of do it by default.
3:20Elon MuskBut as JB was saying, like, driving to a supercharger and, you know, in order to, like, maybe get $5 worth of electricity and spending half an hour for your time, like, you're, you know, maybe barely at minimum wage.
3:38Elon MuskSo it's actually not. It's just not the best thing for people. But, you know, they kind of do it out of habit.