200,00 miles gets you two tesla battery exchanges for 10 grand each. At 6600 bucks for battery charges at 10 cents a kilowatt hour you are actually paying more than gas to operate a Tesla.
Yep, it’s a scam. Prius is Pious spelled by the marketing department.
Thanks for running the numbers on the cost if a Tesla. It puts the discussion into better focus.
If the batteries cost $10k to replace after 5 years, that’s $2,000 per year to drive it on top of other fixed costs like recharging. Not to mention after 50% life the batteries get alot less able to hold a charge, so your recharge costs go up as well and the overall efficiency and distance driven go down, too.
Expensive toy.