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That kills the concept that people will eat meals while charging. What will restaurant operators who were going to allow Tesla to install charging points, such as this chain[1], do about this?

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/30/12076172/tesla-supercharge...

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You'll have to move your car mid-meal or pay a small fee. Not quite the commercial it once was but not a dealbreaker for me either.

Restaurants could perhaps strike deals with Tesla to allow customers waived fees up to an hour or two?

Considering Tesla is optimizing for customer experience, such deal is unlikely to placate a carowner who now needs to wait for an extra hour or two for for a spare spot.

If the restaurant is optimizing for such customer, they can always install their very own high-speed wall charger http://shop.teslamotors.com/products/wall-connector-with-8-5...

Some hotels, restaurants and wineries have done this, and they show up as "destination chargers" on Tesla maps.

I wouldn't quite call 24$ per hour a "small fee" for parking. If you're in a restaurant for two hours after you've charged that's nearly fifty bucks just for parking.

If you plan to have 2-hour meals, you do not need to charge at a supercharger. Thats what destination chargers are for. They are cheap enough, that every parking lot can be equipped where there is demand.

Then think of it as a fee for charging.

It's like going to the toilet mid-meal.

This is about time spent after having finished charging. As you are well aware, the charge current on Lithium batteries has to drop off a cliff as they near completion, so a full charge on a Tesla supercharger is still 1h+

(Which is why most on a trip never charge fully)

Personally it's a non-issue for me.

Maybe for those who it is an issue for, Tesla can one day do an OTA which sends the car into an automated parking pattern.

>>When charge finish, automatically circle parking lot until parking spot found.

In the long run, the cars will move themselves, so that would work anyway.

Not to mention the valet service currently available at overly-popular superchargers.

Well if the restaurant is proving the space for super chargers then two ideas, one is they decide if there is a fee or they have designated valet service for their customers

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