Posted on 07/25/2022 5:56:55 AM PDT by conservative98
I know, that’s huge!
I think my TV downstairs is about the same size.
It’s ugly. You may get 300 miles if..there is no traffic, it’ s 71 degrees and clear and it’s daytime.
The grand excess before the fall.
It’s much better looking than anything Tesla is making now, except maybe the roadster.
Everyone go buy one to save the planet!
Barf.
You would like to think they are just stuck on stupid but they probably have reason to believe they can sell some.
I’ll take two... One for each foot.
The cost of electricity to charge it?
Come on man! Nobody asks that.
if you have seen a video of it (which i have) it lights up like K-Mart’s blue light special, and looks cheap with all the flashing lights all over it (they are LED, not much of a bezel, but they are on the front edges, back edges, bumper etc) literally designed to scream “look at me, i am driving a GM EV”.
Dunno about that. Range Rover is neck and neck with Cadillac.
55 inch display screen? That’s 4 1/2 feet wide. Where did they put it? Is it like the front screen on the USS Enterprise? Replaces the windshield. You’d need a huge battery just for the display.
This caddy isn’t anything that I have to be concerned about; way, way out of my league.
Come on man! Nobody asks that.
How much does it cost to charge an electric car's battery?
While electricity costs vary, the average price in California is about 18 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh).
All well and good, but no doubt the charging station will tack on cost and profit.
*** And you are not running the AC or heater.
Hmmm.
I'm seeing stats that say an average EV uses around 30 kWh to travel 100 miles.
At 18 cents per kWh, that seems comparable to a 30 mpg car when gas was about 1.80/gal.
I judge a vehicle by it's reliability and resale value after 10 years. Nobody is going to want to purchase a 10 year old Cadillac EV considering the astronomical costs to keep it running and replace the batteries.........
The built-in fire suppression system that can put out a battery that big was $200,000 of the cost.
I had a Tesla S 90D for more than a year on a lease. In bumper to bumper grid lock it would require 180 watt hours per mile I had seen down in the 150s at 70mph it would avg 200 to 250 a mile. Unlike ICE cars bumper to bumper grid lock is better for an EV they don’t idle and nearly every watt used to accelerate is recovered with regen braking. On average over a year 225 watts per mile was what my cumulative count was. That’s just over 4 miles per kWh. If you are still on 36 or 48 month contact from before Brandon’s folly Texas power is 8 cents kWh retail. That’s two cents per mile. A 30 mpg ICE car would need 60 cents per gallon gasoline to equal 2 cents per mile. Even at the local retail rates of 15 cents per kWh today that only 3.75 cents per mile at 30mpg gas would need to retail for $1.12 per gallon. Second law of thermodynamics machine vs first law machine. I know for some physics is hard but math is universal, ha I love that quote.
Telsas are not meant to save money compared to smaller nonluxury vehicles. Tesla is a status symbol for the upper middle and upper classes. It just happens to cost a lot less to drive it per mile once you pay off the initial capital outlays. The resale value of a Telsa is crazy high so if you only keep it for a few years it works out to less than a grand a month in total costs of ownership even covering 2400 miles a month more than twice the average American driving distance per month. Again Telsa’s are not for middle class peoples never was meant to be.
My next car will be a tri motor Tesla S with full self drive FSD. As of now a Tesla nearly drives itself on the highway. I plan on no lease this time I want to keep it. With the new 4th gen packs it will last for at least 500,000 miles with many 3rd gen packs already hitting 300+k miles in commercial service. It will be the last car I need to ever buy I have covered nearly 500,000 miles since I started driving many decades ago and will never come close to needing 400,000 more miles before I’m dust. The former Telsa CTO came out and said he expects the Gen 3 pack currently in service to have at least a 15 year calender lifespan and will only degrade by 20% or less in that time span. Real world data confirms and my personal experience with one also is inline with this my leased Telsa lost less than 1.3% in my nearly two years and just over 30,000 miles of use it had 18,000 on it when I got it and was a year n half old so when I turned it in it was 3 years old with 48K miles and had lost 1.8% of it’s capacity from new it’s rate of loss was slowing which is what typically happens it’s faster at first then plateaus out for a long slow drop. There are Tesla’s with 380k and only have losses in the 10-13% range a pack is considered in good service with anything less than 20% losses. With over 400 miles in a full pack that’s still 316 miles in a end of life full pack or put another way 8 days of 40 mile average commutes before it needs a charge.Most people myself included charged up via an AC 50amp dryer type outlet every day in an hour or so since it only takes 10kWh to cover 40 miles of driving per day. Most days for me are a lot less it’s only 11 miles to my fav pub round trip. A commute to Frisco the fortune 500 capital of America now beating out NYC in total company numbers as of this year would only be 25 miles round trip. not that I would ever work in corporate America again but if I did that’s the destination. Even from my bubble of an exurb no place is more than 30 miles one way in DFW heck Oklahoma is only 30 ish moles to the casinos. Even with a end of life pack 316 miles gets me all the way to San Antonio without stopping that’s 5 hours in the seat much longer than my bladder will go.
Since there is virtually nowhere on an interstate that is further than 100 miles between superchargers you have a two to one margin of range charger to charger. Most SC are 50 miles or less apart a Model S will take on 200 miles of charge in 15min or less. Why 200 miles because that’s 3 hours in the seat and the limit of my bladder and leg stiffness before I want out for a leak and stretch. 15 min is ideal for a charge stop,leak, beer and snack.
#54 How much will the replacement battery cost?
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