Well I bought a TESLA almost a year ago to this day. Didn’t do it to be green. Thought they were good cars and I’m a gadget guy.
Was just texting my son and dad. I drove over 15k miles and spent about $350 on electricity, including superchargers and and charging at home. I can charge for free at work, which means I don’t really pay at all unless I’m on the road. Had to charge a bit at home over Xmas since I was going to/from airport and not charging at work. So, my at home charging costs were under $50 for this year. I spent about $750 after gov rebates getting a home charger, though, which I don’t really use. I could have saved money by just using the existing outlets for “trickle charging”, but the high speed charging at home comes in handy when we’re about to go on a road trip or coming back from one. So, I think it is worth it.
I timed this whim well. A year later the car would cost more, etc. Also, where I live electricity is fairly cheap, under 9 cents/kWh.
Within the last year I also bought a solar system that seems to cover about 2/3 of our needs 3200 sq ft house and will probably pay for itself w/in 7 years or so. Probably less after electricity goes up due to “Let’s Go Brandon”. After rebates our system was about $4500. If we had tried to “go off the grid” and covered all of our electric needs, the cost would have more than doubled.
Voted for Trump and hate “Green New Deal” but don’t think people should dismiss ev’s or cheap solar home systems, especially given what “Let’s Go Brandon” is doing.
So you justify your Tesla on tax rebates and you get to charge it “free” at work? i.e. it’s cheaper for YOU because somebody else is picking up the tab. R-i-i-i-g-h-t.
After rebates our system was about $4500.
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Wonderful, little rebate elves sent you a check.
At least you’re honest about it.
But your tax rebates don’t come out of thin air or free. Having a hard time understanding why the government/taxpayer needs to give you money for your decisions.
a Govt rebate??......What??..I don't have an EV and I haven't received a Thank-You note from you yet?..../s
I did something similar.
In fall of 2019 I bought an 18 solar panel system and a used BMWi3, with the range extender. About 40K for everything.
My brother just bought a brand new gas guzzling suv, about three months ago. I begged him not to do it. He got angry with me. Today, he’s wondering why he didn’t listen to me.
You bought a solar system— nice.. I am looking at the cost of a universe. jk..
I prefer real cars over glorified golf carts.
Fixed it for you.
And try doing the EV and charger cost without subsidies from someone else, along with your feel-good solar panels! Nobody is subsidizing my gas costs! You're also cheating the gov't out of the gas taxes for the roads - more freeloading, which someone else has to make up for.
If you were really honest, you would look at the real cost of vehicle & equipment (no subsidies), energy (w/o freeloading, and cost of the time to re-charge), evaded gas taxes, opportunity cost of the vehicle purchase vs. keeping the ICE vehicle, and the total carbon cost of the EV - those rare earths aren't cheap.
“I can charge for free at work”
Probably why you’re only getting a 3%
annual raise..../s