Tesla has more than 300,000 reservations for the cars, and if all those owners started using supercharger stations for free, that could get expensive for Tesla. 1, 2017 will get roughly 1,00AP Electric car maker Tesla Motors has decided to stop offering unlimited free use of its 734 fast charging stations worldwide. 1 must take delivery before April 1 in order to get the unlimited free charging., charging stations are across the nation, but many are concentrated in population centers long the East and West Coasts.At the average U.Tesla says the change will let it expand the supercharger network and it will not make a profit from the charging stations. 1 would still get unlimited free charging.Tesla Motors Inc.end-of.Tesla wouldn39;t say specifically how much its fees will be, but it said charging would cost less than the price of filling a comparable gasoline car.

Electric car maker Tesla Motors has decided to stop offering unlimited free use of its 734 fast charging stations worldwide, just months before it39;s scheduled to start selling a mass-market electric car.S.The stations were set up to enable long-distance travel by Tesla electric cars.Buyers of new cars ordered or sold on or before Jan. electricity price of 12. A 30-amp public charging station can only do 10 miles in a half hour, the company says on its website. But after the credits are used, owners will have to pay fees that Tesla didn39;t detail on Monday. In the U. Vehicles ordered or sold on or before Jan. says cars ordered after Jan.68 to fully recharge a Tesla Model S with a 275-mile battery at home. The company says it will release fee details later this year and that prices could fluctuate over time and vary by regional electricity costs. Electric car maker Tesla Motors has decided to stop offering unlimited free use of its 734 fast charging stations worldwide.Still, the move shouldn39;t hurt Tesla sales because the company remains the market leader for electric vehicles, and owners don39;t use the stations that often, said Tasha Keeney, analyst for Pedal assist electric scooter manufacturers the industrial innovation fund at ARK Invest. Tesla is in a really good position with 30 percent of the market."

EVs are the way forward.The move means that those who buy Tesla39;s mass-market $35,000 Model 3, which is due to go on sale in the second half of next year, won39;t get unlimited free charging.Tesla39;s stations are used only 5 percent to 10 percent of the day, Keeney said, but many Tesla owners use them as a social gathering place to talk with other owners.S. Tesla owners charge their cars at home more than 90 percent of the time, she said, using the Superchargers mainly for trips or when they need extra range.9 cents per kilowatt hour, it would cost $9. The company39;s Model S sedan can go between 219 and 302 miles per charge depending on battery and software configurations.The Supercharger stations can give the cars 170 miles of range in a half hour. We don39;t see that changing," said Keeney, whose fund has holdings in Palo Alto, California-based Tesla Motors Inc. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said previously that Model 3 owners would have to pay to use the charging stations.