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Originally Posted by glennQNYC
The Model 3 just doesn't make sense financially. My estimates are it will cost over $5.00 per 100 miles to fuel. Not a unbelievable bargain; especially when you consider it's a $50,000-70,000 vehicle.
Any pure EV isn't realistic to be your only car. These are second or third cars.
I also think EV owners should be required to generate their own power so they don't tax the grid. When I hear about brown outs and power shortages I want to scream from the mountain tops and ask why we're pushing cars into the grid.
Also- Tesla owners are truly insufferable. I feel like unplugging their car whenever I see one publicly refueling... Not that I've ever done that.  |
Back in 2013, I did a bunch of total vehicle cost calculations on a Tesla Model S and my then 200,000-mile E90. My calculations showed an EV needs to cost $35K to make economic sense to purchase. And then there's still the range anxiety and refueling time issues to deal with. EV's aren't there yet.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."