Tesla charging passport to decide lifetime supercharging winners

Cassie Miller

3 hours ago

Tesla is tying a major reward to its new Charging Passport feature. Nine owners will get free Supercharging for as long as they keep their current Tesla, based on their 2025 charging patterns.

How the Charging Passport feature works

Charging Passport sits inside the Tesla app as a yearly recap of Supercharger use. It sums up a driver’s 2025 activity, and it highlights distance added, total energy, locations visited, gas savings, and key milestones on the road.

The feature pulls data from Supercharger sessions linked to the vehicle and account. So drivers can see their charging footprint for the year in one place, including a map of routes and sites.

Contest structure and main prize

The contest is global and uses three categories to rank drivers. Three winners come from each category, for a total of nine owners who receive lifetime Supercharging on their current vehicle.

The benefit is tied to that specific car and account, and it remains valid while the owner keeps that vehicle. But if use breaks Tesla’s terms, the company can revoke the perk.

The three categories are:

Longest distance between Superchargers
Most energy charged
Most unique Supercharger sites visited

Longest distance between Superchargers

One set of winners comes from the longest single gap between two Supercharger locations. The company applies the Haversine formula to calculate this distance on the surface of the Earth using latitude and longitude.

The metric looks at straight-line distance between charger coordinates, not actual road distance. So long stretches through remote areas can stand out if they connect distant points on the network.

This category puts a spotlight on range planning and trips through less-dense charging regions. And it rewards drivers who push into new territory using official Supercharger sites.

Most energy charged over the year

A second group of winners comes from total energy pulled from Superchargers. The app adds up every kilowatt-hour charged during 2025 through the network for that vehicle.

Heavy users who rely on Superchargers for commuting or frequent long trips will tend to score high. But a handful of intensive road trips can still add a large energy total in a short period.

Most unique Supercharger locations visited

The third contest path focuses on variety. It counts how many distinct Supercharger sites a driver has visited during 2025, and it ranks owners by that number.

Each location counts once toward the total, regardless of repeat visits. So drivers who vary their routes and visit new areas can climb higher in this category.

Eligibility rules and data requirements

The contest has clear participation rules. These limit the field to owners with recent software and active use of the feature.

To qualify, an owner must:

Open the Charging Passport in the Tesla app at least once before January 1, 2026
Use Tesla app version 4.51.5 or later
Run vehicle software version 2021.44.25 or newer
Charge at three or more different Supercharger sites during 2025
Keep the setting to share charging data with the app switched on

The statistics that decide the rankings lock based on the last time the driver views Charging Passport before the deadline. So if someone opens the feature late in December, that view becomes the reference point.

Hence, drivers who want to compete need to update both car and app and open the recap in time. And it ties the contest firmly to data recorded in 2025.

Ties, limits, and excluded use

Tesla has set basic rules to break ties. If two or more owners end up with the same value in a contest category, the one with higher total energy charged during 2025 gets the spot.

The company also applies several limits:

Owners who already have free Supercharging cannot win this new award
One person can win in only one category; if they lead in more than one, the extra spot passes to the next ranked driver
Vehicles used for commercial work, like rideshare or delivery fleets, do not qualify
Lifetime Supercharging remains linked to the original vehicle and account and can be removed in cases such as unpaid fees or misuse

Charging Passport also includes a badge system that tracks major charging milestones. These badges appear inside the app and give drivers quick markers of what they have done during the year.

All the Iconic Charger badges you can collect:

These badges run alongside the contest but do not decide the main prize. Still, they track many of the same patterns, such as variety of sites and total energy.

Owners reach Charging Passport inside the Tesla app. They open the app, tap the charging section on the home screen, and select the yearly recap or Charging Passport card when it appears.

Drivers who hope to compete for lifetime Supercharging need to open Charging Passport before January 1, 2026, so their stats are recorded for the contest. Tesla is expected to contact the nine winners by email and apply the free Supercharging benefit to their accounts by March 1, 2026.

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