dgpcolorado said:
Tesla chose 400 kWh free per year because that would cover most owners' limited road trip needs. I find that interesting because I did 9000 miles of road trips in my first nine months! But I didn't get my car for urban commuting; I got it, in large part, for road trips.
I have a short commute, but I'm a bit of a weekend warrior. I do roughly 10k miles/year of road tripping per year.
Hmm.. if a Tesla gets 3 miles/kWh, that's 3,333kWh per year. That's well over the 400kWh Tesla is giving owners.
Of course, that assume all of that road trip uses the Supercharger network. In reality, the first charge of every weekend are from charging at home. So that's 60kWh / week or 3120 kWh/year.
So even with my 10k miles/year enabled by the superchargers, I'd only actually use it for about 200kWh, or
half of my allowance.
Seems like Tesla did their homework, and is being very generous to boot.