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To: miniTAX

Oh really...

My Tesla 3 gas been from mile one less per month than the S60 Volvo that it has replaced. In payments. Zero down on both have good credit.

That means from the first mile it was less capital outlays for that Model 3 vs the ICE. Understrand this the monthly cost for the Tesla is less than the equivalent does 5 passenger luxury sedan that used to sit next to it. From day one. That should be simple economics.

If I paid for retail power it would be 10 cents per kWh ,I don’t but let’s roll with that. I avg 180 watt hours per mile in my exurban/suburban drives. That’s 5 miles to the kWh which means each mile costs 2 cents per mile.

So what would petrol have to be in the 30 mpg Volvo to equal 2 cents per mile in fuel costs? This is middle school level mathematics. You would need to be able to buy retail at the pump taxes included 60 CENT per gallon fuel. Remember the monthly capital cost is already lower so fuel is the determinate. Yeah it’s not golf carts nice try buy for a sedan wrong oh so wrong.

Oh and my Model 3 has FSD expecting the S60 never had, hands free in traffic and road trips...priceless.


45 posted on 03/25/2025 4:26:21 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: GenXPolymath

‘Yeah it’s not golf carts nice try buy for a sedan wrong oh so wrong.’


You are off topic. We were talking about EVs in a free market context. Your EV is ‘competitive’ only because it’s favored by arbitrary and stupid regulations and because it’s heavily subsididied by ICEs and fossil fuel taxes. The proof positive of such skewed economics is that when subsidies stop, EV sales crash, see the Germany example.
There is the massive evidence of EV failure from Germany and there is your personal success case (and I don’t doubt it, I use myself an electric vehicule everyday), which one woild I believe?


57 posted on 03/25/2025 11:40:48 PM PDT by miniTAX
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