I wouldn't take an electric car on a road trip. That is for sure.
We have free supercharging, so 0$/mile! In reality of we charge at home we're hovering around 4-5 cents/mile.
I'd guess we would have been about 35-45$ for the full round trip 1,000 mile trip had we had to pay for charging.
Q
#1: Yeah, but how about for the pickup?
It would be marginally more expensive but hard to nail down since the power is not directly passed on to us. We pay 11 cents/min for slower charge rates and 21 cents for typical charging speeds.
Question #2: Who pays for the electricity you get for free?
Tesla owns the Supercharger stalls (like the one's in Weatherford, Ardmore, OKC, Catoosa and Ponca City) so the cost is passed on to them and I don't believe they receive any state-level incentives that are directly or indirectly paid by tax payers.
Question #3: Is any part of buying and/or charging your Tesla subsidized or a deductible expense as an individual?
The biggest take away is the federal credit (Since we had an early Model 3 we got a $7,500 credit for 2018). Otherwise unless you have free supercharging, the cost is past on to you and is baked into the per-unit-time cost. If you used them for business/leased through a company they are as deductible as a normal vehicle; with the bonus that you a much smaller routine maintenance expense.
Our free supercharging is 5,000 miles since my folks also bought a Model 3 and used our referral code. When that credit runs dry we'll be back to paying until I order the truck or Model Y through our referral code.
Woody
I wouldn't take an electric car on a road trip. That is for sure.
I don't foresee many farmers and ranchers lining up to buy one of those.
I also don't see RV'ers lining up either.
I think it more for the folks that want to buy a "truck" and then go looking for a shed or garage to store it in so it doesn't get damaged by hail.
Short answer is that as far as a "working" truck goes, it will probably fall flat.
Smart move, I traded a 2000 with 260+ thousand for a 2010. Chevy's brighter ideas between the 00 and the 10 turned a great truck into something that might self destruct at any minute. If I could do it over I would look for a low mileage pre 07.I'll be keeping my 2006 Chevy diesel for the foreseeable future.
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