Posted on 11/04/2017 7:34:24 AM PDT by jerod
Well put. If I had that kind of cash (plus the $90K or so estimated cost of a photovoltaic roof to charge it — there’s no reason taxpayers and electric company customers should foot my fuel bill) I’d be driving one now.
There’s reportedly a $6000 destination charge that is mandatory, so the $35K Model 3 is actually the $41K Model 3, and the options often desired by buyers lift the sale price another $5-$6K. Meanwhile, a raft of established makers are coming on with new hybrid and all-electric models, and the factory bottlenecks are not going to get fixed. Then there are the mineral sources needed for the batteries, lack of local service in many places, and eventually angry shareholders...
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