{"id":484822,"date":"2022-04-18T08:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T03:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=484822"},"modified":"2022-04-18T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T03:53:20","slug":"low-usage-musk-on-why-tesla-removed-mobile-connectors-with-car-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/low-usage-musk-on-why-tesla-removed-mobile-connectors-with-car-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Low usage&#8217;: Musk on why Tesla removed mobile connectors with car purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that its electric vehicle company Tesla has removed mobile connectors with car purchases because its &#8220;usage statistics were super low&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said that Tesla believed that the usage amongst owners was too low to justify supplying the cable with every new car delivery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Usage statistics were super low, so it seemed wasteful. On the (minor) plus side, we will be including more plug adapters with the mobile connector kit,&#8221; Musk wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>According to the auto-tech website Electrek, Tesla changed its long-standing policy to deliver every vehicle with a mobile charging cable and instead, it starts selling them separately for $400 for level 2 charging and $275 for level 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that its electric vehicle company Tesla has removed mobile connectors with car purchases because its &#8220;usage statistics were super low&#8221;. Musk said that Tesla believed that the usage amongst owners was too low to justify supplying the cable with every new car delivery. &#8220;Usage statistics were super low, so it seemed wasteful. On the (minor) plus side, we will be including more plug adapters with the mobile connector kit,&#8221; Musk wrote on Twitter. According to the auto-tech website Electrek, Tesla changed its long-standing policy to deliver every vehicle with a mobile charging cable and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}