The Tesla costs 4 cents per mile for fuel and the Jaguar or Mercedes costs 17 cents per mile. If you drive 20,000 miles a year you will save $2,470 per year in fuel costs with a Tesla.
A 12 year old 2006 Jag XJ8 costs about $4,000. A used Tesla costs about $40,000. It will take about 15 years of fuel savings to pay for the additional cost of the Tesla. If saving the environment is important to you as it is to me the extra fuel saved would no doubt help something but the exhaust of a Jag or Mercedes is cleaned up considerable and the catalytic mufflers clean up the gas pretty well so the difference in driving a Tesla seems about even to me especially when considering the method of making electricity by the power companies which requires considerable raw materials and which emits gases which are also cleaned up before being released.
In addition, many power plants use the spent particulates to make dry-wall boards which are used in most buildings except for some log cabins. Making electricity and delivering it to the Tesla batteries requires scads of wire, utility poles and charging stations and the batteries cost about $30,000 for the owner to replace so Tesla’s are not financial friends to their owners.
In other words, so far as replacing gasoline engines with electric motors, …. we are not there yet and won’t be for the foreseeable future. Sorry greenies…. Growl, growl.
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