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Posted on 04/05/2015 5:36:33 PM PDT by LogicDesigner
While Tesla Motors continues to fight it out on a state level with dealership groups—most recently gaining ground in Georgia but getting shut out in West Virginia—one thing is for sure about the automaker's product: The Tesla Model S is, again and by far, the most-loved vehicle in the U.S.
The Tesla Model S, according to the market-research firm Strategic Vision, boasts figures of ‘love’ from their overall vehicle experience that handily top those for much-loved sports-car models like the Porsche Boxster and 911.
A whopping 92 percent of owners of the Model S summed their experience in the top “I Love It” box. It’s a pretty good indication of what a disruptive product the 2015 Tesla Model S continues to be.
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The Model S wasn’t the only ‘green’ vehicle near the top of the list. The Chevrolet Volt placed second among mass-market cars—second only to the Dodge Charger—in that ‘love’ metric.
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The Tesla Model S is an all-electric car that has between a 208 and 265 mile range and costs between $70,000 and $130,000 depending on the options.
The Chevy Volt is an electric car with a gasoline engine backup. The first 40 miles you drive each day are all-electric. If you need to go farther, it turns into a regular gasoline car with a 340 mile gas tank. The starting price is around $30,000 these days.
Both vehicles also qualify for around $10,000 in tax credits, depending on your state.
Want to defund Iran's nuclear program? Buy an electric car.
See my profile page for why I support electric vehicles.
Sure, when you’re making two-grand-a-month payments or whatever, what are you gonna do, walk around admitting you’re driving a piece of crap?
until it comes time to replace the Batteries
Want to support the toys of the rich, that you can't afford yourself? Then support electric cars!
The tax credits on them are the most socially unjust program ever invented: the poor - who often have to commute long miles to get into the Silicon Valley for work - supporting the rich…
Both are heavily subsidized by the taxpayers.
The Tesla S is, however, an amazing car. I wouldn’t take a Volt if it was given to me.
Makes no sense to support luxury vehicles to “save the planet”. There’s a pretty good chance the owners are thinking of themselves as saviors of the commoners who are subsidizing them. Meanwhile those commoners who drive a beater car are the ones who are conserving resources by keep the old car going.
Based on 84 data points from the 85-kWh version of the Model S and six from 60-kWh cars, the study concludes that the Model S will retain about 94 percent of its capacity after 50,000 miles, with losses thereafter shrinking to about 1 percent per 30,000 miles.
That means that after 100,000 miles, the typical Model S is projected to retain about 92 percent of its battery capacity and range.
Teslas are not really standouts in their $100k+ class of vehicles, of which there are quite a few and all very impressive. Any comparison to cars costing only one-third as much is just laughable.
Same could be said for any luxury car but the Model S blows them all out of the water.
Ping me please for EVI
Sure, the internals are different but the important point is that it drives on gasoline at that point, meaning you don't have to worry about range anxiety.
Maybe I could have said that it turns into a hybrid. In gasoline mode it gets 40 mph highway, 35 mpg city, and benefits from regenerative braking.
Will do!
Corrected!
“range costs between $70,000-$130,000”
I think Telsa has a nice vehicle. But the average Jane and John Doe can’t afford that. Heck I nearly choked on the cost of my truck that I bought last year.
And correct me if I’m wrong (I’m sure you will) but don’t the batteries have to be recharged using electricity? Isn’t electricity generated (for the most part) by oil? How would that defund Iran?
What if there is a power outage? How would one recharge?
I know a guy who bought a Tesla S - he really likes it.
Their “green vehicles” are charged with electricity from coal fired power plants, producing more CO2 than a gasoline powered car.
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>> “What if there is a power outage? How would one recharge?” <<
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This is the salient point WRT electric vehicles!
Each and every one of them will be a coffin on wheels for anyone caught in one in an evacuation emergency.
Whether it is a wildfire, or one of Obingo’s brothers setting off a suitcase nuke in your town, the electric car is death on wheels.
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