Tesla is Increasing the Price for its Supercharger Charging Rates but only to fund new Supercharger Stations.

Tesla increases cost of using its Supercharger stations, still says it 'will never be a profit center'

Tesla officially introduced its paid Supercharger network access plan over a year ago, but it's only now starting to have a greater impact since virtually only Model 3 owners are on it and the vehicle is just now starting to hit the roads in greater numbers.

From article, (Just as a reminder, the default Supercharger access model when buying a new Tesla Model S or Model X is already the new pay-per-use model unless the buyer is being referred by an existing Tesla owner, in which case, it reverts to the old unlimited free access model.

Model 3 buyers don’t have access to a referral incentive and therefore, they directly fall under to the new pay-per-use model, which consists of paying per kWh charged from a Supercharger station or per minute of using a station in the states and provinces where Tesla can’t officially “sell” electricity due to local restrictions.

When introducing the program, Tesla said that it aimed to still make the cost of Supercharging cheaper than gasoline and that it doesn’t aim to make its Supercharger network a profit center.

Instead, they want to use the money to keep growing the network which now consists of over 1,180 stations and close to 9,000 Superchargers.)

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