Electric vehicle charging cost
Interesting article, Gas is cheaper to fuel than a Tesla, which on top of charging cost, has a battery which apparently depreciates $1000 a year. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4160351-tesla-model...
Forum Discussion
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Take a new TESLA. Drive it until it needs a battery. How much much does a new battery cost -- installed and car pointed out of the shop?
STOP! I don't want to hear about a reclaimed or rebuilt battery.
I asked that very question of several employees of the company. I got answers so similar they must have been scripted.
The average of all the replies went something like “Well that’s not really a question that can be easily answered. Your existing battery would be evaluated as to how much we would credit you for the core, the labour charges could be from X to Y, we would of course give you a loaner while we have your vehicle, and a bunch of other variables.”
When pushed the answer always came back to something like “Somewhere between (US) $10k to $13k currently, but commodity prices are always fluxuating........”.
As an aside, a friends Tesla was recently written off, the company offered him an EXTREMELY generous discount on a NEW car in exchange for his John Hancock on a form assigning his right to the remains. Far more than common sense or economics would dictate.
