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Tesla Model X Gets Free Supercharging Again. It Might Not Be Worth It

Tesla is offering free Supercharging on new Model X purchases and leases.

Building on these developments, the enterprise also hiked the starting price of the SUV by $5,000.

That makes it ineligible for the $7,500 federal tax credit.

Tesla is bundling the purchase or lease of a new Model X electric SUV with free lifetime Supercharging once again. The offer made a comeback last week after several years on hiatus. At first glance, it’s a nice incentive for potential buyers of the slow-selling flagship EV, but the details are a bit more complicated.

The same incentive was offered with the Model S late last year, and it says that the free Supercharging is tied to the owner’s Tesla account and. Cannot be transferred to another vehicle, person or order, even if the car is sold. This is different from what some older Model S owners have benefited from, where the free Supercharging stays with the vehicle forever, irrespective of who drives it.

As a reminder, Supercharging means using Tesla’s expansive network of DC fast chargers, which has over 27,000 stalls in North America.

However. While tying the free Supercharging with a single account might not be a dealbreaker, the new pricing for the Model X could well be. The electric SUV is now $5,000 more expensive—starting from $84,990—making it ineligible for the $7,500 federal tax credit. To be eligible for the federal incentive, electric SUVs have to be priced under $80,000. The Model X was just a hair under the limit before the price hike.

With the price increase and the tax credit now gone. Tesla’s largest SUV is effectively $12,500 more expensive than it was last month. What’s more, free Supercharging is unlikely to balance things out. As we found out when doing the numbers for the Model S, 83% of EV owners have a home charger and. Use that for their electric vehicle energy needs. But let’s dive a little deeper.

, the average American drives 13,473 miles every year. Taking the Department of Energy’s home charger stats into account, we can assume that 83% of these miles—11,182 to be precise—would be driven with energy from a home charger. The rest–2,291 miles–would theoretically be driven with energy from Superchargers.

The base Tesla Model X All-Wheel Drive has an official energy efficiency of miles/kilowatt-hour, . Meanwhile, the average rate for Supercharging is around $ (Tesla doesn’t offer an average base rate, so we had to look at its Supercharger map and do our best to come up with this figure).

To drive 2,291 miles. A Model X would need 827 kWh of energy, which would cost an average of around $356 per year. So, to offset the $5,000 price hike, it would take 14 years. For the full $12,500 price increase (including the lost federal tax credit), it would take 35 years.

Still, just for fun. Let’s do the math for when an owner would exclusively use Supercharging and do without a home charger. That would entail an average energy use of 4,864 kWh. Which would have an average cost of $2,091 if it would be paid out of pocket. In this case, it would take two and a half years to offset the $5,000 price hike and. Six years to offset the $12,500 effective price increase of the vehicle.

Is that worth it? It could be, but the owner would have to throw away one of the biggest benefits of driving an EV, and that’s charging at home. Moreover, Tesla can revoke free Supercharging “in the event of excessive charging,” which is quite arbitrary and could mess up someone’s plans of using the perk.

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This ‘sold-out’ street-legal electric motorcycle is also an electric snowmobile

It’s a tale as old as time. A man takes a ride on an electric motorcycle and thinks to himself, “This is great, but you know what it’s missing? The ability to morph into an electric snowmobile, too.”.

Ok, perhaps it’s not the most common thought among us. But that hasn’t stopped it from apparently becoming a reality thanks to Canadian designer Steven Foster, who has now spent three years developing and testing that exact concept to bring the Avvenire Combat e-motorcycle to life.

The Toronto-based EV brand Avvenire, which was spun out of low-cost e-bike and mobility business Daymak. Is preparing to launch the Combat Ebike, a 3-in-1 menace on tires…and on snowmobile tracks.

That’s right. This electric motorcycle is something of a shapeshifter, claiming to offer three different types of rides. The bike can be set up to run as a typical street-legal electric motorcycle, an off-road electric dirt bike, or a snowmobile. The last one does require a bit more work on the rear end, though, where the wheel is replaced by a snowmobile track mechanism.

“The Combat Bike can be a dirt bike, a snowmobile, and. A street-legal bike, 100% electric—all in one at a reasonable price! It was something I’d always dreamed of. The 3 in 1 makes it an all-year vehicle,”.

states Aldo Baiocchi, President of Avvenire Electric Vehicles International.

Building on these developments, the organization asserts that the Founder Edition of the novel bike has already sold out, despite the internet being surprisingly devoid of mentions of the new bike… at least before the press release announcing how sold out it was.

Now Avvenire is offering pre-orders for the supposed next batch of bikes. With a $2,000 discount on the $9,999 MSRP for anyone who cares to take a big enough gulp and lay down a full payment. Fortunately, folks won’t have to wait long. The delivery date for those pre-orders is expressed to be later this month.

Hmm, with the delivery date of the regular production bikes so close, it almost seems like those Founder Edition bikes should already be out there somewhere.

Regardless. We can at least enjoy learning a bit about the specs on this new 3-in-1 electric motorbike. A 5,000W (7 hp) motor is noted to power the bike up to a top speed of 37 mph (60 km/h). That might be closer to scooter-level performance, but you do get the ol’ leg-swinging-over-the-bike feel of a motorcycle.

Moving to another aspect, there’s no word on how fast it travels when in snowmobile mode, but. I’m guessing not quite 37 mph.

A kWh lithium-ion battery sufficient for 43 miles (70 km) of road range “at top speed” powers the bike, which supports riders up to 285 lb (130 kg).

Additionally, there isn’t much else available regarding the bike’s performance. We do have several images that appear a bit prototype-like, and Avvenire has often relied heavily on renders for its product images. Similarly to the largely computer-generated teaser video launched to go along with the Combat Ebike “sold-out” announcement.

I love the concept here. A single bike that you can ride on the street in the summer and. In the snow during winter sounds like something out of a Canadian fairytale. I dig it.

But something seems a bit off about the whole thing. The supposedly “sold-out” bike doesn’t appear to have existed until we all learned it was sold out, many of the photos look like a prototype with flat panels, and the corporation’s website nearly has more mentions of investment opportunities than trying to sell its products.

I know they’re still trying to get that three-wheeled EV of theirs into production after several years of work, and that probably burns through capital. But this bike feels a bit like an early launch that is trying really hard to generate some really fast funds. And we’ve seen before how that can go sideways.

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