It is quite interesting. It appear see that Telsa possibly take the position that the original owner holds the software user licence and these licences can’t be transferable. If you did buy a Telsa, one would be in for a shock…
This is what their Privacy and Legal clauses say about supercharging…
Pay Per Use
All vehicles ordered after January 15, 2017, and vehicles ordered by January 15, 2017 but built after April 15, 2017, are enabled for Supercharging on a pay per use basis. Any credits for free Supercharging that are given with the purchase of a vehicle, including any annual renewal of credits, expire upon the sale or transfer of the vehicle and are not transferable to any subsequent vehicle owner, or to any other vehicle. Credits for Supercharging expire after a set period of time and do not rollover into future periods.
Looks like ‘supercharging’ is a user pay basis and if one hasn’t paid Telsa directly, it get removed from the second hand vehicle (inc. Any remaining credits).
Premium Connectivity Subscription Agreement
You cannot transfer the Service to another person or another Vehicle without our prior consent, use it for commercial purposes or re-sell it
This gets deleted too as it is not transferable…
4. Termination, Suspension, Reactivation, Change and Transfer of Service
Transfer of Service, Sale of Vehicle, Termination of Lease
The Service is not transferrable to any future owner of the Vehicle.
You must notify us if you sell or transfer your Vehicle or end its lease. If you fail to notify us, you will remain responsible for all charges for any Service incurred in connection with such Vehicle. It is your responsibility to remove all data and content (including any personal information), if any, that you may have stored on your system before you sell or transfer your Vehicle.
An owner is contractually obliged to notify Telsa of ahy change in ownership/sale of a vehicle. This is possibly so that they can remotely remove software which one hasn’t paid Telsa a licence for…but may be installed on the car by the previous owner.
I wonder how may Telsa owners are aware of there restrictions…do they care as after selling the car it isn’t their problem… however in Australia is could be if the car is sold through a business/second hand dealer and it is advertised with the features which are later removed by Telsa.
This personally would be show stopper for me buying a second hand Telsa as one would not really know what one is buying. One day one could wake up to find they they have in effect bought a car which has in most part had its software removed.
The Privacy statements are also ‘interesting’ as Telsa collects considerable information on the drivers of its vehicles. Maybe Telsa wants the information on the second hand car buyer so that they can start collecting information (on the new person rather than thinking it was still the former driver). It looks like the Google or Apple of the Automotive industry, with the difference being the manufacture has remote control over one’s software licences and potentially consumer rights.
