airborne spoon
Active Member
Y'all are forgetting one variable... those of us that have free supercharging
So when I travel, (which I do an excessive amount of the time) all the charging I do is free. when i don't travel my utilities are free at home as part of my lease. but as always I am the outlier when it come to data points.
For the average person where i live gas is $4.10 for cheap crap, home power is $0.15/kWh if you remove the variable of the losses to charging and say you pull 76kWh and travel 200 miles it would cost $11.40. In a similar ICE car that gets 20 mpg it would cost $41 to go the same distance, even if you bump that ICE car up to 30 mpg it would still cost $27 in gas to go the same distance.
Now i have no idea how much it costs to use a supercharger, and I'm lead to believe it varies not only by state buy by utility provider to that SC station. But you never (almost) fill to 100% at a SC, in all my travels, (I have 21,000kWh from SC and 25,000kWh from AC) I usually add 40% which equates to about 30kWh or about 120 miles. So even if a SC cost .40/kWh that would still only be $12. For the ICE in my example of 20 mpg you're looking at $24.6 to go the same 120 miles. So again the ICE loses.
And yes I ignored the OP example of comparing a model S to a corolla because its an asinine comparison. a carolla is a freaking canoe and the S is a yacht you cant evenly compare them, and any attempt to do so is a fools argument and should be discarded with the trash.
So when I travel, (which I do an excessive amount of the time) all the charging I do is free. when i don't travel my utilities are free at home as part of my lease. but as always I am the outlier when it come to data points.
For the average person where i live gas is $4.10 for cheap crap, home power is $0.15/kWh if you remove the variable of the losses to charging and say you pull 76kWh and travel 200 miles it would cost $11.40. In a similar ICE car that gets 20 mpg it would cost $41 to go the same distance, even if you bump that ICE car up to 30 mpg it would still cost $27 in gas to go the same distance.
Now i have no idea how much it costs to use a supercharger, and I'm lead to believe it varies not only by state buy by utility provider to that SC station. But you never (almost) fill to 100% at a SC, in all my travels, (I have 21,000kWh from SC and 25,000kWh from AC) I usually add 40% which equates to about 30kWh or about 120 miles. So even if a SC cost .40/kWh that would still only be $12. For the ICE in my example of 20 mpg you're looking at $24.6 to go the same 120 miles. So again the ICE loses.
And yes I ignored the OP example of comparing a model S to a corolla because its an asinine comparison. a carolla is a freaking canoe and the S is a yacht you cant evenly compare them, and any attempt to do so is a fools argument and should be discarded with the trash.