,,, things such as your experience while buying the car, transparency and consistency, and having lines of steady communication with your future and current customers.
Hoo boy, this is fun! So you think you need a customer "service" experience, with transparency, etc. Well, I'm not understanding what it is you want. Last car I bought (the 3) I called up my Sales Center and asked if they had what I wanted. They said they did. I told them I'd be over in the afternoon (as they are 115 miles away), I was, and wrote out the check and we drove home. Obviously I don't need transparency or consistency if I'm going to buy it. Neither do I need a relationship with the sales staff.
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"Cost of supercharging is $0.28 per kWh, with an average of 0.3 kWh/mi, comes to about 9-10 cents a mile.. A regular car that can do 30 mpg (which isn't very high) comes to 7 cents per mile, which is 30% cheaper. If you go with a performance vehicle the costs increase (less mpg + premium) but in either case supercharging is very comparable to gas prices."
First off, my cost per kWh yesterday cost me $.065, not "9-10 cents a mile". So, it's not always 28 cents per kWh.
Yesterday I charged at Folsom and added 150 miles. Cost me $9.82. You say that should have cost me $15 or so. I would have gotten better range if we hadn't been doing curvey roads in the mountains and 80+mph on the freeway. Whatever. A "regular car" is lucky to get 20 mpg unless you're driving a VW or some such low powered vehicle. But how would I know? I haven't driven gas cars for seven years. The folks I know who buy gas pay $4 a gallon, and get maybe 20 mpg. 150 miles would cost them $30. Not less than $10.
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5 bucks gets you 18 kWh. I don't know what kind of driving your wife did to get a legendary value of 72 Wh/mi if she drove 250 miles on 5 bucks. My 85D averaged about 300, while I'm sure the Model 3 is less I am also certain it's not that much less.
Well, we do get pretty good range driving cruise at 60 on the freeway... but OK, I got convoluted in the math. My bad. <Five bucks got me ~75 miles, yes, ~18kWh. But you know that cost charged per kWh varies with cost of local electricity. I'm fairly sure that price per kWh is not $.28 everywhere. Obviously I pay less than your quote and my car gets better range than your 85 (320 miles on about 70 kWh. Se la vie.)
The point is, that gas and electric power do not cost the same. Many people claim that an electric can go 4 - 8 times farther on a dollar. If I get 300 miles for $20, that means I would get 15 miles per dollar. If gas is $4 a gallon, a gas car would have to get 60 miles per gallon to equal what I get, and they don't. Oh, well maybe yours does, but most don't. And my Teslas will eat most everything at the stop light. Something that gets 30 mpg won't eat anything.
And that's not even counting the fact that I don't have oil changes and filters and tune ups and plugs and stink and getting to stand out in the rain as I fill up. Charging in my garage is a lot easier than driving to find a gas station, too. Ten seconds to plug in. And at far less than supercharger prices. Your gas prices don't come down when you are just driving around home. My power prices drop in half or lower at home, where I do 90% of my driving.
Bottom line: I think your numbers are not all perfect. Gas cars are not as efficient or clean as electric, and just because there may be cases, most times the gas car is more expensive. You picked the highest price for filling an electric, but your gas price stays the same. So, not apples to apples, I think.
