[Clarkey]

Originally Posted by bossy22

this is true. It's known that you shouldn't use superchargers regularly. To keep your battery life extended, limit supercharger use. So only for road trips. Also, charge between 50 and 80% the majority of the time. And in winter, warm up your car. If you follow those rules, your battery can last a long time. My buddy's roadster has only had a 10% degradation in his battery over the past 8 years.
Some people want free power and were charging at superchargers all of the time. With our car, we get free unlimited supercharging. With new models, tesla is giving credits/year 400kwh which equates to approx 1000 miles. So you are limited to how much you can use them. After that you have to pay. 24cents/minute above 60kw, and 19 cents/minute below 60kw. This is to help keep battery life extended, as well as pay for all of these new chargers going in.
We've only had our car for a year and half and it's testing at 100%. We follow the recommend guidelines, and i fully expect to get 10 years out of the battery.

I don't know how tesla is dealing with the degraded batteries. They have a 8 year unlimited warranty, so i imagine tesla will just have to replace them.

too complicated, keep burning gas!