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ALRIGHT GEEZ I'll get the Supercharger!
So I'm getting the Supercharger, AWD, Tech Package, and Brown color. Don't talk me into anything else! My kids' college accounts will be like blood on your hands!
Doing more math - when I compare this to driving my other gas vehicle, I'd only need to charge it for 13,000 miles (3,250 kWh) to break even. So it's getting easier to imagine I'd take a road trip per year for five years, maybe.
Seems to me if you have no plans to go on long road trips, the Supercharger option is pretty much pointless. If you're using your MS as a fast grocery getter, and all your driving could be accomplished with an 80 mile Leaf, why bother? Invest the $2000, and you could very well come close to break even if you add it after the fact.
And to the "You'll get it back at resale" crowd - show one iota of proof on this one. That's complete unfounded speculation.
Elon will regret selling it to me at only $2,000. ;-)
I'd think that would be the first question people would ask because Tesla has promoted Supercharging as one of the main benefits so it's the one that most people who have read enough about the Model S to purchase one have heard of. As far as it's being a scam, well it's no more of a scam then the free service for X years that some cars have. You'd have to be a pretty dumb bunny to not realize that "free" means "included in the purchase price" regardless of what product or service it is you're purchasing.I doubt it affects resale because people probably don't know to ask about it when buying used.
I've decided, and have informed my wife as such, that we shall endeavour to drive the car as much as possible, as far as possible, as often as possible. I will get my money out of this option, goldarnit (not sure if profane cursing is permitted here). Elon will regret selling it to me at only $2,000. ;-)
I doubt it affects resale because people probably don't know to ask about it when buying used. And I do consider it a Ponzi scheme of sorts, albeit one where you know what you're getting so it's not a scam. The Supercharger network is billed as being free - it's not free - it's being paid for ad infinitum by future Tesla supercharger option purchases. If nobody bought a Tesla with that feature from this point forward, they'd shut down the system. Surely the $2,000 paid by the 2013 and 2014 customers has been spent building the immense infrastructure. The maintenance and electricity is being covered by 2015 and 2016 customers. Anyway, it's a fun thought experiment but I'm confident they have enough money in the bank to keep it open for 5+ years even if they stopped selling enough cars.
I've decided, and have informed my wife as such, that we shall endeavour to drive the car as much as possible, as far as possible, as often as possible. I will get my money out of this option, goldarnit (not sure if profane cursing is permitted here). Elon will regret selling it to me at only $2,000. ;-)
Seems to me if you have no plans to go on long road trips, the Supercharger option is pretty much pointless. If you're using your MS as a fast grocery getter, and all your driving could be accomplished with an 80 mile Leaf, why bother? Invest the $2000, and you could very well come close to break even if you add it after the fact.
And to the "You'll get it back at resale" crowd - show one iota of proof on this one. That's complete unfounded speculation.
I think you missed my point on the Leaf quip (although, re-reading it, I may not have been clear); by "why bother" I meant "why bother with Supercharging", not "why bother buying an S over a Leaf".The car will certainly be easier to sell if it has the SC option because without it you are eliminating a whole set of potential buyers. As to the "you can do it with the 80 mile Leaf", well, that works the first year--unless the weather turns bad or the power goes out for a day. The second year, it's a 50 mile Leaf unless you live in a very mild climate.
Whoa. You just blew my mind. Good point.I was thinking today about trade-in value to Tesla though, if you're trading in TO Tesla, supercharging makes no difference, since they can activate it themselves for no cost when reselling it for more. A good question will be for a 60 being traded in to tesla, will tesla give any value to having paid for SC?
I respectfully disagree - I think putting it in those terms makes $2,000 very expensive. Compared to a gasoline vehicle, or a flight, you'd still have to do quite a bit of traveling to get close to $2,000. For the last 15 years my wife and I have done lots of long weekend trips all over the country (far too far to drive from Denver in a weekend) and I'd guesstimate we average about $189 per flight. So that's $378 in travel expenses (2 of us). We'd have to use Supercharging for more than five trips just to break even. And being in Denver, you're driving like 8-12 hours just to get anywhere. It's absurdly desolate around these parts when it comes to road trip traveling. We've rented cars and driven the entirety of both the east and west coasts and marvel in how much you can see and do in a single day of driving. You drive 12 hours from Denver and you're just arriving at Las Vegas. You drive 12 hours from Boston and you've been through New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Richmond VA, and Charlotte NC. Granted we get the pretty views, but it's a sh@! ton of driving to get anywhere. So road trips are a serious commitment in these parts.It looks like you already made your decision (likely the right one,) but I didn't see anyone articulate my train of thought on this. It isn't the cost/value of the free electricity you should be looking at here: It's the cost/value of the road trips, instead.
If you suddenly need to be somewhere else a few hundred miles away without the superchargers, what will that cost? gasoline, rental car? Keeping an older car around and paying for insurance/repairs? Last minute flights and taxi cabs?
Looked at that way, a one time $2,000 fee is actually a real bargain. It isn't the electricity that's the value of the Superchargers - it's where the electricity can take you.
Walter
I respectfully disagree - I think putting it in those terms makes $2,000 very expensive. Compared to a gasoline vehicle, or a flight, you'd still have to do quite a bit of traveling to get close to $2,000. For the last 15 years my wife and I have done lots of long weekend trips all over the country (far too far to drive from Denver in a weekend) and I'd guesstimate we average about $189 per flight. So that's $378 in travel expenses (2 of us). We'd have to use Supercharging for more than five trips just to break even. And being in Denver, you're driving like 8-12 hours just to get anywhere. It's absurdly desolate around these parts when it comes to road trip traveling. We've rented cars and driven the entirety of both the east and west coasts and marvel in how much you can see and do in a single day of driving. You drive 12 hours from Denver and you're just arriving at Las Vegas. You drive 12 hours from Boston and you've been through New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Richmond VA, and Charlotte NC. Granted we get the pretty views, but it's a sh@! ton of driving to get anywhere. So road trips are a serious commitment in these parts.
I respectfully disagree - I think putting it in those terms makes $2,000 very expensive. Compared to a gasoline vehicle, or a flight, you'd still have to do quite a bit of traveling to get close to $2,000. For the last 15 years my wife and I have done lots of long weekend trips all over the country (far too far to drive from Denver in a weekend) and I'd guesstimate we average about $189 per flight. So that's $378 in travel expenses (2 of us). We'd have to use Supercharging for more than five trips just to break even. And being in Denver, you're driving like 8-12 hours just to get anywhere. It's absurdly desolate around these parts when it comes to road trip traveling. We've rented cars and driven the entirety of both the east and west coasts and marvel in how much you can see and do in a single day of driving. You drive 12 hours from Denver and you're just arriving at Las Vegas. You drive 12 hours from Boston and you've been through New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Richmond VA, and Charlotte NC. Granted we get the pretty views, but it's a sh@! ton of driving to get anywhere. So road trips are a serious commitment in these parts.