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Did I miss it or does this article not mention the gas savings? You can charge this car for free at Tesla's superchargers or cheap at home, with gas at over $4

Did I miss it or does this article not mention the gas savings? You can charge this car for free at Tesla's superchargers or cheap at home, with gas at over $4 a gallon thats a huge savings, theres people who easily spend $300 a month on gas, thats probably going to be the biggest part of the savings for most people, this article should have at least mentioned that. edit: US average is $368 per month: http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/05/news/economy/gas_prices_income_spending/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/05/news/economy/gas_prices_inco...

codex 14y ago
That's the household cost, not the per-car cost. Most households have more than one car.
- wavesounds 14y ago
  You're right I should have mentioned that. But It gets complicated because a family would probably use this car for their longest trips/commutes, would use this one more then their secondary car for elective trips. Also this is grouping in single person households with coupled households and its including people who dont drive to work and the states containing the most people who would buy this car are also the states with higher than average gas prices as well. I haven't been able to find the statistic on how much an average Californian who drives to work spends but I think its on the order of hundreds of dollars in savings per month, which this article doesn't mention.
droithomme 14y ago
If US average spending on gas is $368 per person per month, that's 100 gallons of gas per month, or 1200 gallons a year. Typical car these days gets 30 mpg, so that's 36,000 miles a year. Even if driving a gas guzzling SUV that gets only 19mpg, that's 22,800 miles a year. Yet according to the US DOT Federal Highway Administration, the average annual miles driven is 12,334 per year. So the $368 that CNN claims is a lie. Except it was per two adult/two car household, and taken at a point in 2011 when gas prices were at $3.98 a gallon. Here's more recent numbers. http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/05/report-u-s-households-spend-record-amount-on-gas-in-2012/ http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/05/report-u-s-households-spen... "The Energy Information Administration reported that the average household spent $2,912 on gasoline in 2012." Note that the 2012 number is a secondary high record (2008 held the record), and uses the actual final numbers for the full year, rather than a CNN number that cherry picked a momentary peak and extrapolated to the whole year and then never published a follow through with the actual numbers. Typical CNN! Not reliable to cite. Anyway that's around $1500 a year per adult/car, or a bit over $100 a month. $1500 buys 408 gallons of gas, which gets you 12,240 miles at 30 mpg. Now these numbers make sense because they match what we actually know about how far people drive.
smackfu 14y ago
They didn't mention it because it's not one of the "ridiculous assumptions" the article is about. That $940 per month cost at the end reflects the gas savings of $284 per month.

codex 14y ago

That's the household cost, not the per-car cost. Most households have more than one car.

wavesounds 14y ago
You're right I should have mentioned that. But It gets complicated because a family would probably use this car for their longest trips/commutes, would use this one more then their secondary car for elective trips. Also this is grouping in single person households with coupled households and its including people who dont drive to work and the states containing the most people who would buy this car are also the states with higher than average gas prices as well. I haven't been able to find the statistic on how much an average Californian who drives to work spends but I think its on the order of hundreds of dollars in savings per month, which this article doesn't mention.

droithomme 14y ago

If US average spending on gas is $368 per person per month, that's 100 gallons of gas per month, or 1200 gallons a year. Typical car these days gets 30 mpg, so that's 36,000 miles a year. Even if driving a gas guzzling SUV that gets only 19mpg, that's 22,800 miles a year. Yet according to the US DOT Federal Highway Administration, the average annual miles driven is 12,334 per year. So the $368 that CNN claims is a lie. Except it was per two adult/two car household, and taken at a point in 2011 when gas prices were at $3.98 a gallon. Here's more recent numbers. http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/05/report-u-s-households-spend-record-amount-on-gas-in-2012/ http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/05/report-u-s-households-spen... "The Energy Information Administration reported that the average household spent $2,912 on gasoline in 2012." Note that the 2012 number is a secondary high record (2008 held the record), and uses the actual final numbers for the full year, rather than a CNN number that cherry picked a momentary peak and extrapolated to the whole year and then never published a follow through with the actual numbers. Typical CNN! Not reliable to cite. Anyway that's around $1500 a year per adult/car, or a bit over $100 a month. $1500 buys 408 gallons of gas, which gets you 12,240 miles at 30 mpg. Now these numbers make sense because they match what we actually know about how far people drive.

smackfu 14y ago

They didn't mention it because it's not one of the "ridiculous assumptions" the article is about. That $940 per month cost at the end reflects the gas savings of $284 per month.