TBF Tesla is probably exaggerating their estimated gas cost just as much as the authors of this article exaggerated electricity costs. Everybody’s playing the same game.
It’s not a hard calculation to make yourself. I manually put my kilowatt hour in the calculator so price of electricity is correct. I’ve driven 1480 miles . at 28 miles to the gallon which is about what the car it replaced got that would be 52 gallons. Gas is currently 3.50 per gallon. 180 dollars. I’ve spent 56$ of electricity so 182-56 I get 126$ savings. I think they aren’t counting the whole 1480 I think I have an extra week or two i’m counting since I bought the car. So at-least between 126 and 172$ savings. It’s a big difference. And there is no oil changes and pretty much no break changes either.
Electricity would have to be really expensive to exceed gas. Maybe some parts of the country it is idk but where i’m at it’s way cheaper.
TBF Tesla is probably exaggerating their estimated gas cost just as much as the authors of this article exaggerated electricity costs. Everybody’s playing the same game.
It’s not a hard calculation to make yourself. I manually put my kilowatt hour in the calculator so price of electricity is correct. I’ve driven 1480 miles . at 28 miles to the gallon which is about what the car it replaced got that would be 52 gallons. Gas is currently 3.50 per gallon. 180 dollars. I’ve spent 56$ of electricity so 182-56 I get 126$ savings. I think they aren’t counting the whole 1480 I think I have an extra week or two i’m counting since I bought the car. So at-least between 126 and 172$ savings. It’s a big difference. And there is no oil changes and pretty much no break changes either.
Electricity would have to be really expensive to exceed gas. Maybe some parts of the country it is idk but where i’m at it’s way cheaper.