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Today we’ll go over this week’s biggest Tesla news: massive recalls of thousands of vehicles, new details on the upcoming hardware 4 self-driving computer, plus major changes to Supercharging.
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Whenever Tesla issues a recall, the news love to make a big story out of it, and it happened again when Tesla just issued a recall for over 362,000 vehicles due to a potential safety issue with their Full Self-Driving Beta software. All the Tesla owners who have FSD beta software opted in at their discretion AND the software is expected to continually fix bugs through updates so this is normal, which begs the question: should a software update fix like this be labeled as a recall?
Recent leaks of Tesla’s upcoming Hardware 4 self-driving computer show that it’s expected to provide ten times the processing power of the current hardware 3 chip, which will enable more advanced features needed for Tesla’s journey to achieve full self-driving capability. With the 3 additional cameras that are rumored to be located on the front bumper, which would be the first time we’ve seen front bumper cameras on a Tesla, along with the new HD radar for seeing blind spots, this new hardware 4 could very well finally bring us the highly requested "bird’s eye view" feature. My 2018 Model 3 came with hardware 2.5, and at the time Tesla said that would be enough to handle full self-driving, but a couple years later Tesla announced hardware 3 which effectively left all of us FSD owners with hardware 2.5 saying “Uh, so we’re getting this new hardware 3 for free, right?” Either way, owners who bought FSD capability should absolutely be entitled to whatever hardware is physically necessary to unlock full self driving whenever it is ready so I expect retrofits to happen or a big liability for Tesla if hardware 3 isn’t capable.
For the first time, Tesla will open a portion of its US Superchargers to non-Tesla EVs, making at least 7,500 chargers available for all EVs by the end of 2024 by adding the new Magic Dock adapter to the stalls. It’s great for Tesla as a company because not only will they save a ton of money by allowing the government to help fund the expansion of the Supercharger network but Tesla can charge a fee for non-Tesla vehicles to charge. If that’s not enough, some better news is that Tesla recently reduced the price of their CCS adapter by $75 so if you’re a Tesla owner who doesn’t have one of these, you may want to pick one up because this will allow you access to even more fast charging stations. I bought one of these last year and haven’t yet had the need to use it but who knows: a year or two from now there may be a time when charging at a CCS station will be cheaper and/or more convenient than at a Supercharger, depending on the pricing and demand. Speaking of Supercharging, Tesla sent out an email last week to current Model X and Model S owners offering them to give up their unlimited free Supercharging miles in exchange for an additional $5,000 on the vehicle’s trade-in value when they purchase a new Model S or X. This is probably in response to the new changes to the Supercharger network that we just talked about – opening it up to non-Tesla EVs.
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