Regardless if I want it or not, I will have to buy it if my reservation number gets called, just because who would turn that down? I could be the coolest kid in the neighborhood. That is, as long as it isn't the beast mode. This might be the only point that will convince my wife to let me buy one. Or that we don't have to take her model Y on unpaved dirt roads anymore.
Agreed. In Chicago it would look like this every morning for me. No thanks. Lol
OR: What's the point of having a second childhood if you don't get toys to go with it?
With a Tesla, you just set preconditioning and the snow is cleared off.
Shouldn’t it be impervious to crime? I do have to park outside, although with the angle/height I could actually get it up my steep Bay Area driveway, if it is t too wide for the rock walls on either side.
It depends on your definition of once a year. We typically take one trip a year towing our camper. BUT that trip is typically 6+ weeks and 10,000 miles. So $800/week is more than we typically spend for camping, food, admissions, and gas. Basically by renting a truck you are more than doubling our costs.
If I were going to get the CT--made a reservation 4 years ago but have decided against it--and wanted some extra range to operate in remote areas with few superchargers, and didn't want to cough up $16k while losing 1/3rd of my bed storage to the range extender battery, I'd get a small gas generator with a 240 plug and run it at night while camping to do some charging. Saw a few today at Costco that would occupy a small part of the bed, can easily be lifted by a single person, and run $600-$800.
I've thought of this solution too. Although I hate to go the wrong direction, and buy another gas drinking device, it could definitely solve that problem, until a real portable battery supply solution comes along. I'd especially be okay with it if it was a rare occasion, and it wouldn't hurt to have a home back up power source anyway. There are some pretty amazing little carry-on suitcase sized gasoline generators out there nowadays that are quite efficient.
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I think we’ll see the melt-up continue into next year now that we’re past the (rather limp) drop engineered to show that the CT is no big deal.
Not to mention tubercles on whale fins.
You are spending 10% of the year traveling - definitely renting is not very attractive to you, unless you can find better deals for the long travel.
Actually, to correct the record, my wife points out that she saw it first, then pointed it out to me. Then I saw it.
There are generous depreciation rules for heavy trucks (gross loaded vehicle weight over 6000 pounds) for commercial use in the US (up to 100% for 100% commercial use with bonus depreciation and Section 179). These deductions are better than those for cars used commercially (Huh! No wonder there are so many monstrosities on American roads. Yet another subsidy for and barrier to entry protecting legacy ICE OEM’s and the fossil fuel industries).
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