[Arrowhead1952]

That $109,000 price tag could buy one 27,250 gallons of $4 gasoline. At 25 miles/gallon, one could travel 681,250 miles. How long does that battery last/? Only 100,000 miles? At 681,250 miles you would go through six batteries. How much are those batteries? About $25,000. So, to go 681,250 miles you would have to buy five extra batteries at $125,000. Add that to the original price of the vehicle and you will have spent $234,000.

< algore>Facts, facts, facts. Why do you use facts and common sense in this argument? We are trying to save the planet. < /algore mode>

[Dimples]

So, to drive that 681,250 miles you need a car. The Tesla is a "supercar." As noted above, a comparable supercar is the Porsche 911 Turbo. Unfortunately, to buy the Porsche you have to spend $136,500 ... there goes your 27,250 gallons of gas ... in fact, if you buy the Tesla over the Porsche, you get one "free" battery replacement because of the money you saved in the initial vehicle purchase and STILL have $11,500 to buy "fuel".

Drive BOTH cars for 200,000 miles using the same EPA drive cycle. At $0.10 per kWH, You'll spend about $4500 in "fuel" costs. But since you still had an $11,500 "purse" left over from the money you saved buying the Tesla over the Porsche (even after the Battery Pack replacement), you still have $7000 left in your pocket.

At $4.00 per gallon and an EPA combined mileage of 18 mpg, you'd spend about $45,000 in fuel costs driving that same $200,000.

So after 200,000 miles if you'd bought the Tesla you'd be ahead $52,000. Yes, facts are very useful things to bring to an argument