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Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Not a Tesla App may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, geographic region and/or Tesla model.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

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Security of your Personal Information

Not a Tesla App secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Not a Tesla App uses the following methods for this purpose: SSL Protocol.

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and
  • Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
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  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
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  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
  • Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
  • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

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Changes to this Statement

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Effective as of April 1, 2021

Tesla to Expand Supercharger Access to Seven Additional Manufacturers

By Karan Singh
Not a Tesla App

As of January 13th, Tesla has added even more manufacturers that will soon be capable of charging at Tesla’s Superchargers. Six manufacturers already have access to Tesla’s Superchargers in North America, with a handful of more on the way.

Today, Ford, Rivian, General Motors (GM), Volvo, Polestar, and Nissan all have access to Tesla’s Superchargers with the 3rd party vehicle access option in the Tesla App. All those vehicle owners have to do is select a stall in the Tesla app and tap the “Release Magic Dock” button.

Coming Soon

Tesla has added seven new manufacturers to its Coming Soon section for Supercharger Access. While not everyone loves Tesla, everyone loves the reliability and speed of Tesla’s Superchargers. There’s no doubt many owners are looking forward to being able to access these select Superchargers. Since these locations include Magic Docks, which include a NACS to CCS adapter, the driver doesn’t need to have their own adapter.

These are the seven manufacturers that will soon receive access, according to Tesla.

  • BMW

  • Genesis

  • Hyundai

  • Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)

  • Kia

  • Lucid

  • Mercedes-Benz

That will bring Tesla’s list of associated manufacturers with Supercharger Access in North America to 13 - bringing most of the major vehicle manufacturers online.

The last few remaining stalwarts are Honda, Toyota, and Volkswagen - of whom Volkswagen is in a rather interesting position. Volkswagen runs Electrify America and Electrify Canada - and the Electrify charging brand has built a reputation for EVs being unable to charge, or being inefficient or difficult to work with.

On the flip side, they’ve partnered with Rivian to build their future electric vehicles - and they could potentially bring the Volkswagen brands, including Scout - to Superchargers sometime in the future. Let’s hope that the last few standouts take the leap to adopting NACS and joining the Supercharger network. After all, a better charging experience is better for EV ownership and adoption, thereby accelerating Tesla’s mission of electrifying the planet.

Tesla Introduces New Route Options and Nav Improvements for Chinese New Year

By Karan Singh
Not a Tesla App

Tesla has launched a new update in China, which includes a large number of new features, including a major focus on navigation improvements.

This is still a 2024 build, but it seems like it may be the last one we’ll see - especially since we’ve already heard 2025.2 is on its way.

Let’s take a peek at the new update and all the new features.

Navigation Improvements

One of the new features is the ability to choose how your vehicle chooses a route. If you have “online routing” enabled, then your vehicle’s routing is determined remotely, which lets it take more things into account. However, we now have alternate routes; the driver has limited control over how the route is chosen.

This update introduces new options on how the route is determined, giving the user more control.

Fastest Time - This option appears to be the current default, likely similar to how the vehicle picks a route today.

Least Congestion - This option appears to select routes that have minimal traffic congestion, thereby making your drive that much easier and safer - even if it's a longer route. It's a good use of Tesla’s integration with live traffic data.

Prefer Highways - We saw this option coming as it was initially discovered alongside the new Trailer Profiles feature. It prefers highways over other routes, and while that can be useful, we’d prefer the opposite too - an Avoid Highways option.

Lowest Tolls - This is an interesting option. It doesn’t avoid tolls like the pre-existing option but finds the route that’s the fastest and has the lowest tolls. That’ll be an interesting option for people where toll routes have a big impact on travel times.

While it doesn’t appear that this brings the long-awaited avoid highways feature, it does give users a lot more control over the route the vehicle takes. While Teslas in China use Baidu maps with exciting features, these changes are to Tesla’s backend, so we expect these features to arrive in other regions as well.

Service Area Functions

As part of navigation improvements, approaching a highway service area in China will now automatically open an on-screen prompt, directing you to restaurants, convenience stores, and charging facilities within the service area. It’ll even point out big-name restaurants.

We’d love to see something similar to this in Europe and North America, especially as you pull up to a Supercharger at a rest area.

For those who prefer a little less in-your-face advertising of local businesses, this option can be disabled in Vehicle Options > Navigation > Service Areas.

It’s not clear whether this option will be available outside of China in the future.

The Service Area pop-up from Tesla China.
The Service Area pop-up from Tesla China.
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Other Features

This is the big holiday update for China to celebrate the Chinese New Year. While the update includes some additional new features that we haven’t seen, the rest of it looks to be China-exclusive games, apps and other holiday update features we’ve already received.

The three exclusive games are from Tencent - Happy Landlord, Happy Mahjong, and Throw Eggs, and will be region-restricted to Chinese vehicles.

This update also adds Actually Smart Summon for vehicles equipped with EAP or FSD.

The final one is a bit interesting - Supercharger Bollards. Certain Superchargers in China have ground posts or bollards that automatically raise or lower. These locks prevent non-charging vehicles from parking in the Supercharger spots. Unfortunately for users, it meant you had to open the Tesla app to lower a specific bollard before being able to park to charge your vehicle. However, with this update you can now unlock the bollard from inside the vehicle - the button to unlock the bollard will pop up automatically as you’re navigating to the Supercharger.

We’re hoping the Service Area functions and Navigation improvements make their way to other markets in some capacity, so keep your fingers crossed for a North American or European version of this update soon.

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