Anyway, I think this Tesla is well on its way to a billion miles. Just keep driving on...
Haha Warranty has a habit of expiring after so many months or miles.
The 2021 Tesla owner in the video said his battery is only covered for 120,000 miles. I checked: It’s true. Let’s just say for the sake of argument that a Tesla Model 3 owner WILL be buying at least one battery for 250k miles and ignore the warranty (realism, not advertising; Tesla would NEVER have reduced its battery warranty if the facts supported their fanciful claims).
At $22k per 250k miles, that’s 0.088/mile in “major maintenance,” disregarding all other maintenance & repairs.
My 2014 Honda Civic is due for a timing belt. After that, it’s good through 250k, having cost me 0.018/mile, including tires & oil changes.
Yeah. Tell me about all the benefits of EV.
Oh, “no gas costs”.
I see.
My Civic will have burned 8333 gallons of gas, or 0.083/mile by the time it hits 250k.
At 2-2.5x the cost/mile of EV charging costs, I didn’t have to “route plan”, stress about miles/day traveled (”range anxiety”) or, for that matter, wait HOURS for a charge in between. Tesla is literally planning on building ‘travel centers’ around their remote charging stations; clever way to capitalize on a captive audience.
And it only cost me an extra $11/week over those 5 years vs. EV.
MY CHOICE. MY MONEY (not anyone else’s, i.e., ‘EV rebates’ etc.).
Bonus: My car’s range didn’t degrade over time. /s
Every time I read a thread on EVs, 2 things are evident:
1. EVCB (electric vehicle confirmation bias),
2. Hypocrisy (I’ve never found a SINGLE person who has EVER refused an EV rebate on principle).
Everyone thinking about EVs should research carefully, and read stories such as this one before making major purchases they cannot justify as easily as someone making 6 figures.
If EV cultists wanted to be scientific vs. emotional, they’d support hydrogen, not this EV garbage/fraud.