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It's free. If you could get gasoline for 200 miles for free, would you mind waiting for 30 minutes? I guess it's $25-30 worth of gasoline, corresponding to $50-
by flexie 13y ago
It's free. If you could get gasoline for 200 miles for free, would you mind waiting for 30 minutes? I guess it's $25-30 worth of gasoline, corresponding to $50-60 per hour of waiting. I could wait.
With the battery swap that Tesla is now introducing, you could also chose to swap the battery in a couple of minutes.
- vph 13y agocharging electric cars ain't free.
- mmelin 13y agoNo, but using the Tesla Supercharger stations is free for Model S owners.
- Agathos 13y agoIt costs $80,000 but it comes with a free car.
- bhauer 13y agoSo it's built into the price of the Model S and TANSTAAFL and all that. The point being that you don't do a transaction at the supercharger station in the same way you do at a gas station. Theoretically, you could use a supercharger station multiple times a day and pay nothing additional. It's like the "free maintenance" on BMWs. Or "free loaner cars" when your car is in for service. Seems pretty nitpicky to point out that it's not in fact free. Whatever it is, it's quite a bit different than chucking some dollars at Chevron or whomever.
- stephenhuey 13y agoCharging electric cars is free at the stations where Elon Musk is using solar canopies: http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
- kaonashi 13y agoCharging comes at no additional cost.
- bsullivan01 13y agoIt's NOT free, you paid for a very expensive battery upfront.
- jusben1369 13y agoI would mind waiting 30 minutes on my own and with children in the car doubly so. Yes.