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Even if you plant to drive it into the ground, you have to spread the cost of the car over the lifetime of it's use. If the Telsa only lasts 9 years, that's is
by rhino369 10y ago
Even if you plant to drive it into the ground, you have to spread the cost of the car over the lifetime of it's use. If the Telsa only lasts 9 years, that's is going to add cost to his usage. If it lasts 30 years, that's going to reduce the cost of usage.
Otherwise any sort of calculation of expenses is missing one of the biggest components, the cost of the car.
- femto113 10y agoI think 9 years is at the high end. The drive train was replaced at 65K and the battery was replaced at 75K miles which probably makes "into the ground" not much longer than when the 8 year warranty runs out.
- roninb 10y ago> Otherwise any sort of calculation of expenses is missing one of the biggest components, the cost of the car. They include the cost of the car as the first calculation... > Total Cost of Ownership: >> Cost of Tesla: $79,000 used with 35,000 miles Is that not enough? Do you need to calculate the potential earnings every day that you decide not to sell the car over it's lifetime? Also, perhaps this is tangential, but the author was calculating how much they had lost or saved over the course of ownership up to that point. I feel like the OP in this subthread didn't actually read the article and just commented after skimming over the cost breakdown thinking it was supposed to be something it wasn't (i.e., a cost/benefit analysis for the car's lifetime).