> 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 ca

> 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).