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To: miniTAX

“Hold my beer, I am “charging” my combustion engine car at the fuel station in 2 minutes.
This is power-equivalent to 10 MW charge, if this means anything to you. But I doubt it since you are barely literate.”

It took me 30 seconds to plug my Telsa into the L2 and I walked inside and let it do its thing by the time dinner was done it was back to 80%.

Hold my beer it took 30 seconds to plug it and walk away oh and I get wholesale prices on ERCOT power it was 6/10s of a cent per kWh when I charged it. ERCOT power has been negative since 10 am it went barely positive as the sun set.

It takes 1 kWh to send it 4 miles heated seats and driver zone ripping. That means every mile today cost me 0.15 cents per mile in energy costs. This model 3 replaced a equal sized Volvo that used to struggle to get 28 mpg.

The equivalent gas price to 0.15 cents per mile at 28 mpg is...4.2 cents per gallon ha hold me beer indeed.

Also the payment on the Tesla is $200 LESS per month vs the S60 so from day one it has been cheaper in capex.

I love it when people who don’t know S**t about EVs never drove one never owned one have zero clue how fundamentally changed the world is.

But but what if you don’t get wholesale prices on power sure retail in N Texas is 11 cents per kWh again at 4 miles to the kWh that’s 2.75 cents per mile and the 28 mpg equivalent is 77 cents per gallon. Be smug all you want I am laughing all the way to the bank driving around with the equivalent of at WORST 77 cents per gallon in fuel costs. Keep doing that 2 min fill up paying someone else to get rich. No skin off my hands I consult in oil and gas makes me richer and my solar panels pay be every month too I like money don’t care how it’s made selling talent to oil interests or electrons off my huge roof lines to the state power board zero F given it’s all mail box money. I wouldn’t trade my FSD for any anything. I routinely take my 3 to Midland ,Houston ,Austin and New Orleans never once had range issues there are supercharger ever 50 miles and my LR has enough to do Austin or Houston.direct it’s one 20 min stop in a 5+ hour drive to Midland and one stop to New Orleans which is 9+ hours 20 mins is piss, grab a beer and some BBQ sandwiches and move on. I have a F250 diesel to do.truck things I hate going to the pump because I know it’s costing me ten to 20 times as much per mile to drive it when you include all the maintenance plus fuel. I only drive it when a client pays for the diesel now and no FSD so you have to hands on the whole way anywhere. FSD 14 is hands free 98% of the time I have done door to door Shreveport hands free in December right to the casino valet incredible tech.

But hey do you if you wanna pay more for the 4% of all trips longer than 30 miles per the DOT the average person does per day by all means again I get paid either way in in the energy business all energy.


98 posted on 01/16/2026 12:25:22 AM PST by GenXPolymath
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To: GenXPolymath

“ FSD 14 is hands free 98% of the time ”

How do you know when to grab control for that 2%?


99 posted on 01/16/2026 5:19:15 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GenXPolymath

“It took me 30 seconds to plug my Telsa into the L2 and I walked inside and let it do its thing by the time dinner was done it was back to 80%.”


1 minutes to plug and unplug per day, ie 7 minutes per week, still much more time than for me to fill my diesel tank once every 10 days. That was my point.

“I love it when people who don’t know S**t about EVs never drove one never owned one have zero clue how fundamentally changed the world is.”


Don’t be so cocky, young padawan. Because you own ONE EV doesn’t mean you know the whole picture. I sell scooters and motorbikes for a living. Including electric ones, which nearly nobody buys. And I have years of electronic and software design experience of low power embedded systems . BTW, I also ride electric scooters and electric unicycles. So I have more first hand knowledge of the technical and economic sides of EV than you could ever dream of.

But I don’t see the point on which you want to argue. Do you want to say that the massive rejection of EV by consumers, the huge loss it caused to major manufacturers like Ford, Chrysler, Wolkswagen or Stellantis, the massive drop in EV sales as soon as subsidies and tax credits are removed... all those undeniable FACTS are irrelevant compared to your personnal feelings about y.o.u.r EV? It must be good to be always right when all the facts are wrong...


100 posted on 01/16/2026 11:03:48 AM PST by miniTAX
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