- Hey, everyone, thanks for joining me today.
Wanna give you a heads up first.
I'm a little under the weather.
I apparently ate some bad food at a barbecue yesterday,
so I'll be cutting it a little bit short
and I'll just be trying to sip my tea
a little bit as we go along here.
We're gonna cover just two stories today, my long and short,
and they're kind of the same thing,
so I kinda wanna just jump right into this
and I will have a few moments for questions after the fact.
So let's take a look here at my long, and this is
that Tesla is now resurrecting free Supercharging.
All current owners will have free
unlimited Supercharging for life.
One difference is that it's switching from the vehicle
as people that bought before January 15th, 2017,
where if I sold it to you, it would still have
the free Supercharging, to now it's with the owner,
so if you were to get a new car,
you would still retain that, I believe.
So details are coming out and you can kinda see
there's some good posts out there on Teslarati
as well as Electrek, and this, I think, is
a very nice surprise because there's no
economic reason for them to do this.
In fact, I was thinking about shorting this idea
because the nature of it will basically be going
against what the company needs, which is money
to pay for this program, so yeah, so there's that.
Now, if you have questions or anything, by the way,
I do have chat up on the other window here,
so you can let me know, but the way this will go down is
you basically, if you log in, if you have
a Tesla Model S or X and you go to your My Tesla page,
typically would show you your Supercharger rate,
and like, it would have the limit and all that stuff.
Now, that's all gone, so you have
free Supercharging, so congratulations.
Now, they also did an update to the referral program
and this is my short for the thing here,
so the short this week is the referral program
and the changes that they've made to it,
so now, what they're doing, and it's kind of bittersweet,
on the one hand, you have $1,000 off
plus free unlimited Supercharging
for anybody that uses a referral from someone else,
and so folks like myself and other YouTubers
that have, you know, channels where we get
a lot of people using our code, this is just better for you.
The problem with it is that it only covers five people
for the remainder of the year,
and the current referral program wasn't done yet,
so that kinda kills me because I was excited about this,
that they would keep having these,
and I would be able to continue offering
this referral to you guys for a long time,
and like dozens and dozens of people could get it,
but now, only five for each owner,
for the remainder of the year, and I already have
two of this new referral program, so there's only
three people left that I can help become a Tesla owner,
so I'm kinda bummed on that.
Like, I think it's cool that they're doing
free Supercharging, but at the same time, I'm kinda bummed.
I mean, I'll log in and who knows, even,
who knows, maybe it's already past three.
So I'll take a look and just show you here
what the referral program looks like.
So there it is, you can see I have
two friends referred already.
It carried one over, even though they said
the program started on the 19th,
and this one was on the 16th, so I'm a little confused
about what's going on there, but here it is.
You can give up to five friends unlimited Supercharging
and $1,000 credit towards their new Tesla.
Now, something I haven't talked about before
and I wanna go into this, just because
I wanna be totally transparent with you guys, like,
I don't get money when you use this code.
It really is far more for your benefit.
I guess in one hand, it excites you and entices you
to follow my channel more or something like that,
but they do give rewards back,
and the rewards are pretty cool,
so the current referral program, starting May 19th,
although I have one from May 16th that counted, apparently,
first, you get a Founders Series Tesla Model S for Kids.
This is the little Radio Flyer thing that's pretty cool.
I'm excited to see my son driving around in that
and I'll definitely give you some footage of that
and tell you kinda what's going on once we receive it.
Also, two qualifying referrals,
which I already have in this new program,
get an early access token to a Solar Roof.
I am not gonna get a Solar Roof, but you know,
it says if you do not wanna use this reward token,
maybe give it to a friend, so maybe we'll do
a raffle later in the year, you know,
kinda once these things close out and we have that.
For three referrals, you get these 21 inch wheels.
That's cool.
I'm not really big on the flashy side of the car.
I like the more tech side, but hey, I'll take it.
Then you get a Founder Series Powerwall 2 if you get four,
so that's worth some real money.
The question is about when this will actually happen
and they did note that installation charges will apply,
so you know, it's not gonna be free to you,
but you'll be getting a big chunk of it free.
Then part of the program that I was excited about
when I first saw this was the Tesla Semi-Truck unveil,
and I'll try to make this bigger
so you guys can actually read it, sorry about that.
See, look, they changed it again.
When I first looked at this, it said September 28th.
Maybe the date is still a little bit up in the air.
So you know, assuming that I get that before September,
which like I said, two of the five are already gone,
you know, I'll be able to go to the Tesla Semi-Truck unveil
and show you guys that.
Now, the previous program had something
that was pretty awesome,
which was the ability to get a Model 3 event invite,
so the unveiling of the Model 3
or the, what are they calling it, delivery event,
and I did get enough referrals in to get an invite there.
We'll see, you know, once the invite gets here,
I'll talk more about it.
So these are the changes to the referral program.
I'm short on this just because I'm bummed
that only five people get to take advantage of this.
I think it's a super awesome program.
I don't even care, really, about most of this stuff.
I mean, the Powerwall's cool, but you know,
some of these things are nice,
but I think it's more for you guys
and me being able to share this experience
and this company I've come to love with as many people
as possible, so I'm kinda bummed that it looks like
it's only limited to five people, but who knows?
They changed this in the middle of a program,
so we'll even see, you know, if it changes yet again.
I expect that some people have maybe already hit five
and are emailing Tesla saying, hey, what's up, what's next.
So that is essentially my long and my short.
Again, sorry for cutting it so short this week,
but I have just been having a bit of a rough go at it
this past 24 hours here, and I wanted to at least hop on,
let you know that and also tell you
a little bit about what's coming up this week.
So on Wednesday, I have a review of something
that Model 3 reservation holders may like.
It's a heads up display that you may wanna check out
for your Model 3, or your current car, for that matter,
and then Thursday, I'm checking out
the EV sales and Q1 for the US market,
which is coming from EV-volumes.com,
so lots of good stuff coming out.
I'm trying to really amp up the amount of videos.
You know, we do this one here on Monday
and then usually just Thursday.
I'm trying to throw in a third one each week.
I'm not putting it out there that I'm gonna do it every week
but just know for the next few weeks,
I'll have a Wednesday video as well as a Thursday video,
so if you aren't on the email list,
I would recommend checking that out,
going to teslanomics.co and clicking the little join button
and getting that, so that way, you don't miss it.
It just comes direct to your inbox.
You don't have to remember to log in to YouTube
or any of that, so there you have it.
Okay, let's take a look.
I got time for maybe two or three questions.
Steve Turner, Ben, can you share extras with me?
Hey, Steve, thanks for joining us.
Congratulations on your purchase.
I don't know if I can share extras
or if I'll even get extras, is kind of the thing.
I think once you hit an amount, it shuts it off,
but you can start promoting your own, and also, well,
you already bought yours with free Supercharging,
but you know, it's pretty awesome,
so congrats on that, Steve, and thanks for joining us.
Jasper Thompson, how many X's and S's, whoa...
How many X's and S's are there now?
If we all have five referrals, I don't see it should be
an issue for new S and X buyers to find a referral.
The 3 is not part of the program.
Yes, that's correct, the 3 is not part of the program.
Used models are not part of the program.
I mean, I think, like 140,000 or something total worldwide,
so yeah, there's definitely them out there,
and I guess, you know, one thing I could be doing is
trying, once I hit the five, if it does stop doing it,
trying to find other people so I can
point them there so they can get it, so.
Jose Ruben, thanks for the shout out, man, love you too.
James Cooper, would you consider putting
other people's codes on your site?
Also, my 90D problems appear to be solved finally.
They also give you extended warranties
to say sorry for the six months of problems.
Hey, that's cool, good for you, man.
Yeah, I totally would, and that's what I'm thinking.
We'll see what happens once it comes out,
or once I hit that mark, and what the options are,
and yeah, I would love to share the love.
Essentially, what I would do is just redirect
my site over to someone else's link
so people can still take advantage of it.
Kurdish, what do you think of the new info
about the Model 3?
Yeah, actually, I had that up, I was just going through it.
Let me pull that up so I can show you.
Tesla published their Model 3 specifications
between the S and the X, kinda comparing them.
Definitely wanna dig in deeper here.
It doesn't look like there's a ton of data,
but you know, if this stuff is meant to be set in stone,
then that actually tells us quite a bit about the car, so.
Yeah, there you go, delivery timing, one plus year,
30 days or less, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, I mean, it's not gonna be the S, guaranteed.
I don't think there's anything new there, but yeah,
you know, it's exciting that this stuff,
we're only, what, four or five weeks out, so.
Midhun Joseph, any guess on the changes
to the Model 3 charge port is all about?
Yeah, I saw the Electrek post.
I don't know, man.
I'm not really speculative on that.
I hope it's standard. I hope it still works
with everything else, but maybe they'll have
a super high capacity one or something that has a adapter.
I dunno, we'll see.
Maher, Mayer, sorry, don't how to pronounce that.
So if I buy a car from referral,
I'll get free Supercharging or when I get five referrals?
No, you will get free Supercharging for life
if you use a referral code.
Mine is at teslanomics.co/td.
They are going fast, so if you're on the fence, go for it.
Steve, do you think the new incentives are based
on sluggish sales of the Model S and X in 2017?
No, I think it actually has to do with probably
the referral program because they added this back.
They changed the referral program,
and I don't know why they did that,
but the new program instantly said, hey, free Supercharging.
I think I emailed all you guys, like, oh, my God,
check this out, and then after that, they went back
and gave it, you know, retroactively to everybody
because I could imagine a lot of people saying, hey,
I'm gonna cancel this damn order and give me a new one
because I get free Supercharging,
so I think it was maybe kind of a CYA thing, personally.
Seamus Laverty, who is more eco-minded consumer,
a Bolt purchaser or a Model 3 purchaser?
Who might be in it for the cool factor?
I dunno, that's a good question.
I think both cars, in terms of CO2 emission output
compared to an ICE car, are gonna win
over the life of the vehicle, hands down, so I dunno.
I think they're both pretty good.
I don't know which one's which.
I mean, when I checked out a Chevy Bolt,
I was shocked by how many fluids and gears and crap it had,
so I don't know if there's more parts and more maintenance
and stuff like that, but I would say cheers to both,
anybody that's buying a full EV like that, so yeah.
Will Tesla release performance model to lower
the rated S models with the facelift such as the P75, P85D?
Will Tesla release a performance model
to their lower rated...
I don't think so, but who knows?
This company is just changing it every single day, right?
Okay, guys, well, hey, sorry again to cut it short,
but yeah, I'm gonna go hit the sack,
and stay tuned on Wednesday for a new video
and then Thursday for the regular analysis videos.
You have questions or anything, feel free to hit me up,
teslanomics.co, and there's a contact page there,
so appreciate your time today
and I apologize for having to cut it short,
but I will see you back here soon.