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Posted on 10/07/2025 5:36:07 AM PDT by V_TWIN
An unlucky man purchased a Tesla from a used car dealership only to learn that it was nearly impossible to charge the electric vehicle after driving it off the lot.
When the first charger didn’t work, Boycott sought out a few more stations. When none of them worked, he turned to the Illinois dealership and Tesla.
A Tesla representative eventually got back to Boycott and let him know that “the car is currently unsupported for supercharging and warranties are voided due to [it being a] salvaged vehicle.”
Tesla does offer an inspection option for customers trying to get their Tesla back on the Supercharger network, but for a fee of a couple thousand dollars.
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Yes I would certainly look into litigation.
But when the window sticker says “NO WARRANTY AS IS”....well, I dunno.
Has he seem pictures? Perhaps he should be grateful. A spit-ball re-wired wreck on a Supercharger might be fun!
I put a rooftop tent camper on my 2020 F-150 a year ago this week. Since then we’ve traveled through 28 states with it. It’s purely recreational. I don’t waste any time thinking about where I’m going to get gas, I just pull off at the next exit.
I do sometimes stretch it a little looking for clusters of gas stations at an exit under the impression that gas is a little cheaper there.
I drive a similar F-150 for my job and run all over the place, often pulling a 6000 lb trailer. I assume 50-70,000 miles a year is my total driving. I see these pathetic losers sitting at the charging stations for hours sanctimoniously staring at their screens or out the window and laugh as I pull out three minutes after pulling in, ready for another 6-8 hours of driving.
I bet you wish you had that GTO back.....running or not! 🙂
If your question is sincere, you should drive one around for a few days to find out first hand. It will depend on your use-case and openness to the idea.
I mentioned to a Tesla owner that I didn't think my driving profile is amenable to EV as I drive x-country several times per year. He disagreed as a person who also makes similar trips (canada to FL). He indicated charging stops are user-friendly as you can use the restroom and grab a snack while it's super-charging, ~25 minutes. I usually stop frequently for potty breaks but don't linger. Still not sure if it's a good fit for me, but I do dig the Cyberbeast and the features it has.
“I do dig the Cyberbeast and the features it has.”
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Until it’s time to inevitably replace a very expensive battery......if you haven’t already, you might want to add that to your consideration. 👍
I may be overly cautious, but I’m not sure he should even be recharging it. I think these lithium batteries have the potential to be dangerous and bypassing, or lower, security of charging sounds reckless.
Caveat Emptor.
You can charge them at home with a 30 amp dryer circuit.
People get hundreds of thousands of miles on tesla batteries. It’s amazing how long they last.
Nowadays even a non-running ‘65 GTO would be worth five figures.
“I’m not sure he should even be recharging it.”
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Does Elon offer a 100 yard long charging cable? 🤣
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“Why would I *possibly* want to consider an EV.”
If you need a daily urban commuter car an EV could work. 1.4% of vehicles on the road in the USA are EVs, but 78% of EV owners also own an ICE vehicle. That tells you the difference between hype and actual use.
There have been several variations of this article released. From what I've read, this person is likely to get his money back and state authorities are investigating how the salvage car made its way back to regular title.
I appreciate the humor, but I do think that Elon is smart to absolutely limit Tesla’s liability with these cars.
This article highlights the fact that recharging is controlled, not just be the car, but by the Tesla charging station, as well. No matter what you or the car may “think”, Tesla may be able to limit dangerous amounts of electricity flowing into it.
People may not want to think about it, but I am sure that every Tesla sold comes with 2 clocks - one in the car and one at Tesla. When the clock times out, Supercharging is over and so is the warranty.
It is human nature to always want to get “one more charge” out of a rechargeable battery.
As far as convenience of charging the EV on the road, what your friend said is real. We take our EV on most long trips because we do our homework and make sure there are plenty of fast chargers to choose from. (Homework I did before getting the EV to make sure it, our newest car, would be good for most long trips.) Last year in August I drove it home from New Brunswick to Alabama -- a 1,740 mile one-way trip. All but two stops were completed in 10-15 minutes, and one of those two stops that took longer was while I was away from the car getting a bite to eat. Like your friend says: it wasn't 10-15 minutes to charge plus another few minutes to go use the restroom. I'm comfortable with walking away from the EV while it charges to go use the restroom or buy a soda. I won't do that when filling up my gas pickup. So the 5-7 minutes I fill up my gas pickup is in addition to the extra few minutes to go to the restroom.
The aforementioned 1,740 mile trip. It took me 43 hours, but that includes a 10 hour hotel stay plus a half hour I had my laptop out doing work while at a charger, past when the EV was charged for me to get on the road. So call it 32.5 hours of driving/charging/restroom/eating time to drive 1,740 miles. That's about what I'd do in a gas car. (Note: my wife wasn't with me making the stops last longer and be more frequent LOL) And it cost $220 in charging. That's probably a little less than gas would cost, particularly with the gas costing $4.60 - $4.80 / gallon in Canada last year (after converting liters to gallons and CAD to USD), and driving down through the northeast U.S. where gas is more than in Alabama.
But do your homework before getting an EV as one of your two cars. For example, my wife and I don't visit up north during the winter. If we did, we'd take our gas pickup. And if we did it a lot, we wouldn't have bought an EV because we'd want our newer car to be the one we usually take on trips. Nor do we visit places with routes that don't have good fast chargers. And that's just the trips.
The main gas savings is from home charged miles. My EV gets 3.9 miles/kWh on average with local driving (that includes kWh used for running the A/C and the lights for the times we drive at night). There's a loss of 10% while charging and converting AC power to DC power. So call it 3.5 miles/kWh added to your power bill (if I didn't have a lot of home solar). That's 16 cents per kWh with Alabama Power (after you add in the fuel charge rate rider that AP has to pay for coal/natural gas/biomass/uranium to run their power plants, plus a 4% state tax on top of everything). And Alabama Power gives you a 2 cent per kWh discount if you charge your EV at night 9 PM to 5 AM. So call it 14 cents/kWh (if I didn't have solar usually charging the EV). Thus, $1 divided by 14 cents, times 3.5 miles, means for every $1 added to your power bill you get 25 miles. That's for a crossover shaped EV.
In Alabama where I'm at, gas has been $2.899/gallon for a while. 25 gallons of that would be $72.48. But for that same $72.48 added to the power bill for charging an EV would get 1,811 miles (using the $1 = 25 miles calculation above). We drive ours 18K miles per year on home charged miles alone (1,500 miles per month). With home solar providing 80% of the power we consume in our all-electric, two-story home, including charging the EV, it brings a bit of self-reliance that I couldn't have if we still drove mainly just gas cars. I simply can't produce my own gasoline. If I could I would because hydrocarbons are superior to solar and wind from a dependability and physical science perspective. The only problem with hydrocarbons is that there's too much political science between the point they're extracted from the ground to the point where I can buy them on the over-regulated energy market.
So this table also doubles as a lit fuse timer.
Start charge and this is average time to fire.
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