I wish Tesla would just list the price of the car instead of trying to be cute with the “savings”. If it’s a $92,000 car, it’s a $92,000 car. It isn’t magically an $82,750 car. Tesla is going to want a check for $92,000, so that lower number is just smoke.
Since they’ve cranked up the supercharger rates and they don’t include unlimited supercharging any more, those gas savings might not be quite so favorable. Besides Tesla has absolutely no idea how many miles I’ll drive, my local gas prices, and what gas mileage I’d get in the car I’d be driving if not the Tesla. So that gas savings number is utterly bogus, just a wild guess.
The $3750 is valid. Well, sort of. Well, not really. There’s sales tax paid on it. Figure about $300 or so (at 8% sales tax). They should probably list that number as $3450, that would be more honest. I know, Tesla doesn’t know what sales tax I pay. They could guess. It’s hard to guess worse than 0%.
But if we’re going to get real about what these cost, let’s add in some extra costs for insurance because Tesla can’t seem to get parts to repair facilities, because they are so expensive to fix that they’re often totaled when they should be repairable. And it’s an electric, many states gig us for and extra hundred or two each year because we’re not paying gas taxes. Let’s put that in too.
If they want to include what they see as price adjustments for ownership, that’s fine, but let’s be honest and realistically include all of them, otherwise let’s just simply list the selling price of the car.
I love my Tesla.
Not so much the bad numbers.
Since they’ve cranked up the supercharger rates and they don’t include unlimited supercharging any more, those gas savings might not be quite so favorable. Besides Tesla has absolutely no idea how many miles I’ll drive, my local gas prices, and what gas mileage I’d get in the car I’d be driving if not the Tesla. So that gas savings number is utterly bogus, just a wild guess.
The $3750 is valid. Well, sort of. Well, not really. There’s sales tax paid on it. Figure about $300 or so (at 8% sales tax). They should probably list that number as $3450, that would be more honest. I know, Tesla doesn’t know what sales tax I pay. They could guess. It’s hard to guess worse than 0%.
But if we’re going to get real about what these cost, let’s add in some extra costs for insurance because Tesla can’t seem to get parts to repair facilities, because they are so expensive to fix that they’re often totaled when they should be repairable. And it’s an electric, many states gig us for and extra hundred or two each year because we’re not paying gas taxes. Let’s put that in too.
If they want to include what they see as price adjustments for ownership, that’s fine, but let’s be honest and realistically include all of them, otherwise let’s just simply list the selling price of the car.
I love my Tesla.
Not so much the bad numbers.
