I paid $22,500 for a Toyota Corolla that gets 40mpg. My gas is free compared to the price you’d pay for a Tesla.
My model 3 cost $27,000 if I wanted to buy it. On lease it’s $100+ less per month than the $58,000 Volvo it replaced. I never keep a car past 5 years so leases make sense for my use cycle. It’s a two year lease I’ll be getting a 2025 in April next year and it will still be less per month than a new XC60 they stopped making the S60 and turned it into a crossover now. I charge my Tesla off the panels above it so it is saving me $3600 per year in fuel at least. Those panels payed themselves off years ago selling power to ERCOT at peak rates during the day. So much so u double the size of the system as soon as the first batch broke even. The added benefit is at the flip of a switch to be off grid. Plus having 360 miles of range every day the sun is out which is 220+ days in this part of Texas. Dotgov can has and will turn off gas pumps they can never turn off the sun and since I’m grid free at a flip the grid is irrelevant to me. That alone is priceless as a orepper.