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Last I checked you do have to pay for gas so it checks your credit card or your cash before it lets you fuel it. The supercharger is connecting to make sure you have a valid Tesla account to pay for your supercharging.Would you buy a normal ICE car that would call home to decide if you could put gas in it? Or if you could only put in low grade fuel as opposed to better fuel?
I guess you guys think Tesla should just offer supercharging for free?
Granted they could just put a credit card machine on it and let you pay that way, but they don't. You can always charge at non-Tesla chargers if you prefer the other system. I'm not defending them here because I do think they are pretty controlling about what you can do with the car, but they also haven't shown any propensity to misuse it (yet) either. When they do I'll get concerned and shop other brands.