It probably varies with your location. I still don’t use my 160 mile range Leaf for road trips, so no public charging for it. But my daughter has used our 309 ish mile Equinox for a couple of road trips, one multiday 275 mile one way trip (3 charging sessions, one on the way, one at location, one on the way home), a a couple of same day 140 mile one way trips (one session at destination). Chargers were unoccupied (no waiting to start session) and worked each time. I’d have to look up cost, but i am guessing about $0.40/kWh, or roughly 3x what it costs at home. Equinox isn’t a particularly fast charger compared to newer cars, but slightly more than a hour on the longer trip, iirc. Top off on short trip was 30 mins.
Looked it up. I paid Avg $0.55/kWh. About $ 0.18/mi. ICE Equinox 31 mpg hiway, $3.00 gas, about half the cost per mile, not counting $0.02 mile for oil change.
98% of my daily driving needs are met by charging at home (which you can’t do with ICE). On the handful of the days that I do 300+ mile a day road trips those problems are infrequent and never a show stopper.
Not defending a Nazi, but given Tesla’s ramp up in sales in 21-22, we would be seeing a fall in resale value and record high numbers for sale regardless of Musk’s behavior.
I haven’t checked closely, but a fair amount of accelerated depreciation also came from the drop in price of the new y’s as production ramped up. I’d be hard pressed to assign weights to the various reasons, but given the current new sales drop i’d argue it isn’t solely supply.
Tesla’s sales fall more than consensus estimates. Hard for me to understand if there was more production than deliveries how they can claim they were production constrained.
Someone should write some kind of AI code to use satellite images and estimate how many Teslas are parked, new but unsold, in the parking lots and dealerships.
You have some access to spy satellites that confer images in real time? Most satellite images on Google are years old.
I can tell you for certain that the large Tesla dealer in my town has at least a few dozen cars and at least a dozen of those awful cybertrucks. They are lining them up in a sequence to look cool, but they are really saying “please please please someone come take one of these off our hands!”
