I don't want you to hurt yourself winking and noddingwrongfunds wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:36 pm By the way, when a Model 3 Performance owner says something about saving money (or operating costs) on Tesla vs say Civic, you should just nod and wink Now I give you that some places in USA do have very cheap electricity rates where it might be cheaper to operate than a gas powered car but the real life difference is quite a bit less than advertised. Jason of youtube fame (EngineeringExplained) drove his M3P 2500 miles recently. Total electricity costs was less than an equivalent gas car but not by a lot, at the most 25% savings if I recall.
I agree with you it is important to look at specific numbers for each person, the specific cost of electricity, and the specific cost of gasonline. Here is a helpful spreadsheet from an article published on Clean Technica:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 1712918261
You can use this spreadsheet to plug in your own numbers. Yes, the local cost of electricity is important. So is the cost of gasoline. Here in LA, the average cost of regular unleaded per gallon is $3.27 a gallon. I used to drive a car that required premium, which today in LA is averaging $3.62 a gallon. The higher the price per gallon, the more money owning a Tesla will save you.
My original point, which may have gotten lost in all the numbers, is to show that the TOTAL cost over several years for owning and driving a Tesla is quite a bit less than the TOTAL cost of owning some ICE vehicles, despite the higher upfront sales cost of the Tesla.
BTW, if I recall correctly, Jason of Engineering Explained lives somewhere either in the midwest or northwest where gas prices are a lot lower.