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My mother just told me her MYLR saved her life by seeing a speeding red light runner that she was not able to see, and stopping her car from entering the intersection. So glad I convinced them 3 years ago to get a MY.

My word Tesla. Give this man some coin and publish one of the best adverts available. Informative, concise with a touch of humor. Well done sir.

Agree, no marketing needed, these vehicles sell themselves. Technically the tesla is a masterpiece.

The savings are much higher where electricity is 10 cents per kilowatt (Canada), that is $25,000! Remember almost zero maintenance expenses after 5 years (new Summer tires).

Brilliant Will. I’ve had the same exact experience. Four years of ownership and we’ve saved $25K in petrol and maintenance. Complete joy. Safest car on the roads, ever ❤

Except it’s mostly not savings, it’s subsidies paid by petrol car drivers given road tax would be £180 pa at least and patrol is taxed at roughly 100% compared with 5% for domestic electricity. Those subsidies will go. The EV purchase price is around £10k higher for a basic car e.g. Vauxhall Mokka and depreciation is much higher. For fast charging, there is also the cost of a charger at around £ 1000. The cost also increases hugely once you have to use public chargers at up to 85p/kWh. I am happy that you are pleased with your purchase but the economics are not favourable to electric cars in the future.

Had a model 3 long range,white on white. Perfect for what my wife and I needed. 2 months of owning it she was hit going through an intersection at 50mph. She made a left into my wife and hit the front corner of the car. My wife’s coffee stayed put,it took most of the shock off my wife and kid in the car. Just a scar from the airbag that burned her. 3 months later bought a model y performance and happy with that. The Tesla insurance has only been 142 a month. Gotta love these cars and it costs about 40$ a month to drive

Im a believer of Tesla

NOBODY buying any new car is ever going to "save money"! NOBODY buying a new EV with a $30,000 battery is ever going to "save money"!

Yes you’re absolutely right. Owning a Tesla and maintenance is far more cheaper than any other combustible engine car. I’ve seen a friend of mine who owns a Tesla and he shares his experience with Tesla. Buying a Tesla is expensive, but maintaining it is super cheap.

The only thing I don't get is they still dont support vehicle to grid, I know they might eventually budge on this issue, as I think there Cybertruck offers it. I know it only a small feature for most EV car owners, but specially now you can get electric deals that give you better rates off peak, then during the peak time you could power your house, or if there a power cut or going camping, it a really hand feature that i just wish they support. It even more crazy when I think lower cost EV like the Leaf and MG4 support it.

Only worth it if you're a homeowner. If you rent like me, plug in hybrid is the most you should go.

Great video as usual, thanks Will.

I’m a pensioner, and do bugger all miles a year, but I love my Model Y. I charge mine on a 3 pin plug, so I’ve saved the £1000 for a home charging point too.

What is the resale value?

what about tire wear? how many sets of tires have you gone through in 4.5 years? and what is the battery state after all this time?

I’ve had my Model S for over 8 years, almost 190,000 miles and I’m still not bored of it either 😁 Great vid Will 👍

@7:37 before I got my model Y, there were two or three times I stopped my daily drive 2015 Mustang and got out, generally to retrieve my office badge from my gear in the rear, only to have to hop back in quickly to put on the brake because I’d forgotten to put it in park. The Tesla has removed the burden of having to remember to do that. It also won’t let me drive off with the charging connection connected. Simply idiot proof.

You forgot about 1000 per month depreciation and zero seconds hand demand for private sales

You didn't save anything, you lost 50% of the value, if not more,Tesla's devaluate the fastest.

It’s an okay car. Fun acceleration, low maintenance and fuel costs. It’s heavy, isn’t great in the corners, insurance costs are now high, and the depreciation is brutal. Oh, and no one will take your car as a trade in or buy used because of concerns over future repair costs and battery viability. If you get a Tesla (not recommended unless it’s a company car), make sure you lease it.

In 5 years with our work commute we save 30k switching to tesla in gas and maintenance cost. We have solar at home so the charging is free.

Nice review, recently my thoughts are coming closer and closer to Tesla Model Y. It's price has dropped so much, that it is quite comparable with any standard comparable ICE car!

Thanks for the details. I've not accounted for each item like you -- I'm still stuck on how fun this car (Model Y, 2021) is to drive and take on road trips. (Actually, it takes me on road trips.)

I am in Pennsylvania USA. The savings is not as great here because of the insurance, my insurance is $2200 a year.

Not the same scenario for all owners... insurance is oretty expensive, also repairs and maintenance. So maybe what is ideal for you is a nightmare for others. Il wait for your future video when you have to replace the battery.

I would love to get a Tesla, but the price of buying one and insurance has given me pause in making the plunge. 650 dollar a month payments and double the taxes and insurance, makes me content to stay with my old 2017 Subaru a while longer. If I drove many thousands of miles per year only then an electric vehicle would make sense.

Tesla keeps lowering their prices so your residual value will be low compared to the price you paid in 2019.

Great video , thanks

I have saved over $2000 US on 12K miles driven in year one. Electric Utility pricing is $0.06 / kWh. What I didn’t count on is over $800 in mileage credit, utility rebates, and free charging. Only $1300 of that is from fuel savings as do (2) 3000 mile round trips per year supercharging. But I have made a killing off of work travel where we get paid $0.65 / mile from the IRS, but I am only paying like $0.04 / mile to drive those miles. Pretty soon that loophole will be closed as there is not an EV specific IRS travel credit, so I am making a pretty nice profit on work travel. Not to mention having an SUV that will smoke most corvettes is super fun.

I agree with you 💯, my Model 3 is amazing and it just makes driving so much more fun. I must admit I’m not saving as much as you are but it’s still saving me money. Great video 👍🏼

Location is everything. Here in California, the electricity costs of running a Tesla are the same as the fuel costs for a Toyota Hybrid. Throw in that the Tesla is almost worthless after the 8 year drive train warranty expires (Tesla will give you 12% of the original cost but only for a trade in) whereas the Toyota will go on running for years without any huge repair costs, and you see that Tesla's are not economically viable in the place where they started.

Not sure how you can calculate something different than Hertz rental )dumped most of their Teslas). Hurts proved that that car is one of the most expensive cars out there to rent, because of the cost of insurance and the cost of repairs. And that is not even to mention when that battery goes and it will go it's not if it's when that battery goes. The car is totaled. So after 10 years if that car if it's still running and IF the battery works, it'll be ready for the junkyard you will be forced to just drive it till it dies. And let's not talk about, how in Chicago when we hit the cold snap they were being told everywhere because they could not handle the cold. You did not see one Tesla on the expressway, they're all locked in their houses or towed. Unfortunately electric vehicles have to solve this problem, and they have to solve the problem of the expense of the battery. I was purchasing a Cyber truck, canceled my order. When I seen people are getting less than 200 miles on a brand new cybertruck I was done. Add in The cold weather literally you'll be lucky to get a hundred miles. Hate to say it but I'm going out and buying an old ice engine I just can't wait for them to get these cars up to par with ice engines. I'm hoping, they can come up with a battery that you can charge up in 10 minutes and a battery that'll last the lifetime of the car.

wait a minute.. how can you have zero car payment each month when the car cost 38k $ ? unless you paid for it cash ?

Pretty much my experience as well Will 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I live in the USA and the insurance for EVs is much higher. You’re getting away cheap!😊

you can make these figures say anything… what about a tesla verses a £10,000 second hand family car? you would save £30,000 immediately then invest that for 4 years… this is just a tesla advert

I know for a fact they eat through tires like crazy with all that torque

Charging cable is a thick chunk of copper. Don’t leave it dangling outside your house for the tea leaves to have it away with.

After 9 months of ownership and 10k miles, I spent $381 on charging, saving me at least $1,300. Minus $275 annual electrification fee and $500 more in annual insurance, I still saved $600+.

Good to see some EV love

Have you had a chance to compare the comfort of the 18" vs 19" wheels?

There are opinions online that tesla cybertruck won't be sold in europe as it won't comply with pedestrian safety regulations, too may sharp edges

Don’t buy a Tesla because it’s electric. Buy it because it really is the best car on the road AND it’s cheap to run. Fuel source? Whatever.

Depreciation and insurance wipes out all other savings.

great video waiting for my Model 3 that i should have got 4 years ago but went for a Rav4 my bad also hope it will convince my wife to take up driving again as she doesn't like driving the Rav 4

You have some nice energy cost tbh Its like 1/3 of what i pay in freaking poland, a bit crazy tbh Personally i would need "a bit" better price on car itself and for sure battery to consider it, outside of having tour energy cost obviously but for everyone what they can utilize :) If we are at being safe can you make movie about manual opening backseets dors in case of emergency thats somewhat courious topic for me ;)

That extra 10,000 you spent over and above an equivalent ICE car could have been dumped off your mortgage and saved you thousands. Repeat and rinse every 3 years.

I also own a M3 and the best way to describe it is, Tesla is like an I phone and everything else is android !

Bro one of the best Tesla review videos I have seen. Informative and entertaining.

And the depreciation? I watched this morning a Finnish Tesla KZfaqr regretting his worst financial decision ever with his Model 3. Depreciation of over €1 000/month or €30k over 26 months. And Auto Trader ptces for similar Teslas as yours start from £18 500.

Agree completely, We got our Model 3 Dual Motor in September 2018 and after 5 Years 3 Months took to the Service Center for the First Service. Got an Estimate of $768 and was pleasantly surprised when they said it would only be $259.05. We are Happy we chose the Model 3.

That was fun! Thanks for the info, the facts (not the FUD comments littered below like so many road apples - watch your step!), and the energy. People who don’t know Teslas or EVs say all kinds of silly things. People who do know, well… they just know 😉. Keep up the great work!

Private sale 2019 m3 standard with 50k miles more like £16,000 not £23,000 unfortunately

Depreciation?

Superb 😊

So a 12 minute advert then

Anyone who charges their EV in a Shell EV charger has no dignity left.

In no particular order: Teslas are engaging but incredibly easy to drive, they are clearly among the safest if you are unfortunate enough to crash, they are pretty well thought through in terms of design of systems, there’s amazing technology hidden away to keep them efficient and in the long term should prove great value. But I have come to Tesla without being a Tesla Fan. I had 20 months in a range of other EVs before alighting on a Tesla (cheapest LFP Model 3 because I am a non-home-charging type and expect to use and abuse the LFP pack). All EVs are some sort of compromise, but after nearly 14,000 miles in six months (yup, just checked, had to pay for it again today, another £400 and I would have been paying more than that in fuel if I still had my last ICE car) I’m paying about 8-10p per mile when I Supercharge (at least 80% of my juice) although maybe 15p on more premium yet convenient Volt’n’Bolts with the likes of FastNed, Osprey, Connected Kerb or whatever…. Today, in that beautiful 10 degrees and dry roads, I’ve done 100+ miles since a charge and am over 5 miles per kWh (last year I drove 3,000 miles in a week in a Renault Migraine, which was great but only gave 3 miles per kWh) and I still had fun and comfort in equal measures. Yup - don’t have to be a Fanboi, but can still like and appreciate this amazing bit of kit. Not the least sorry I didn’t wait for the refresh and planning on at least 5 years and, hopefully, another 100,000 miles.

Sorry - EV’s are not for me but good video. I haven’t a drive or any access to charging points, except an expensive public charger I hope you didn’t buy it to save the planet! Having seen videos on how EV’s catch fire (it’s nothing to do with how often, but what happens if it does catch fire) I wouldn’t park it next to my house. The depreciation is a shock, that’s very good! Totally agree about Octopus.

The max range (running it it to 0% from 100%) of the CyberrTuck is ~ 254 miles without hauling anything in the back or behind it. That's abysmal. EV Trucks needed to be made in the late 2020s. Such a misstep by Tesla who enouraged other companies to make trucks and beat them to it. The pricing and range are not worth buying a Tesla; It doesn't do truck things very well. Model 3/Y on the other hand is a marvels that have changed the world. The Model 2 will continue that trend if they focus.

Own used M3 LR. Reliable and exciting car with many good features and space. Not very refined is the drawback

I have an 11 kilowatt solar array. Charging an EV from it, however, is not free. The power generated by the array is fed back into the grid, in my case, for 0.07cents per kilowatt hour. So my minimum cost to charge an EV is that "feed-in tariff". If you don't get a "feed-in tariff" in your area, then ignore what I am saying.

Please tell us about tyre wear as this seems to be a problem?

60% of UK petrol & diesel is tax. Save fuel save tax.

Tesla app slightly underestimates charging cost because it doesn’t include losses between the charger and the battery. My RWD model 3 is about 92% efficient in that respect. In the US we pay both for the generation of electricity and delivery. Are the figures you quoted inclusive of all charges? Thanks.

What if you only drive 5k per year and factor in the depreciation

And what is 5 year depreciation % for the car. Battery replacement cost after 8 years. Insurance costs due to any battery damage making them unrepairable.

How much for a new battery and how often do you need to change them?

Your electricity is dirt cheap, if you're talking 7 pence a kwh. Cheapest here is 26 cents US but typically its 50+ cents

Think this is my first ever experience with a British speaker. Very weird comprehension skills to understand whatever English that was lol. Glad to see another Tesla fanboy out of the U.S.!

Eeeeehhh....getting nervous are we?

I love the bit about not buying a VW due to dieselgate! I just wish I’d thought about that before I bought my Audi Etron. The car was in the garage more than on the road it was soooo unreliable! And Audi didn’t care a hoot!

I am all for using more efficient methods to use energy, however it is not as much as a no brainer as you make it out to be. No doubt teslas are great cars in many respects, but if what you are going for is to be in the lower end of operation cost, each person has to do their own calculations and tolerance in their budgets for those numbers to change. You are gonna be spending in the range of 320-420 pounds / month (electricity 5-10, depreciation 294-330, ~25-30 maintenance, insurance 40-50) over the life of the car. Now, keep in mind that what makes this competitive for you at the moment will only tend to increase. More demand on electricity from EV's will only increase your rate, increased production and sale of EV's and better EV's will increase depreciation, taxes will not be eternally exempt for EV's and more likely than not will return in a few years. The huge initial cost differential from the cheapest EV to the cheapest comparable ICE vehicle is still too high to make the change a no brainer, thanks though for being the first few to support the development of the electric vehicle market (sincerely, I am not trying to be sarcastic. Long term, I think EV's will become a no brainer, not yet though).

£570 for insurance 😮, what insurance was that and where do you live? I pay over twice this amount and I have exact same car.

Sorry, yeah, I know you are doing tesla videos and all, but one argument for fuel driver cars is wroom wroom. You are completely forgetting the wroom wroom factor here. That is priceles. When you drive next to lovely girls in the parking lot and you have that Datsun 100A and you go wroom wroom, they all go and say that you are so lovely and they want to ride with you and have your babies. If you try to do the same with your tesla, the car does not say wroom wroom, it goes weeeee, and goes away. So, no noise, no girls, and that's a bad thing if you don't get the girls, mate.

Maybe I'll get to try one one day but have to buy another house first😐

Where did you find the degradation chart. Pls advise

I have a cupra Born had it for Two years now, I can charge for free at work, only do 4500 a year, the story's I get from people who have no idea

There are two kinds of reality, today. There’s Social Media Reality vs. Real Reality. There seems to be a lot of Social Reality about Tesla lately. This video snuck by the censors. Thank you for sharing a Real Reality video.

I don’t have a gas car as a daily so I can’t save £12k from fuel.

the usual argument about savings. no servicing, yet how much was the car. I bought a car for 10k so I've saved more, plus with servicing I've still saved more lol

I mainly agree in your points, but you forgot the ekstra cost for tiers. The tiers ar bigger than on my old car = More ekspensive, and due to HP and touqe. The lifespan is 30% less (My original Michelin´s lastet 52.000 km. my nekst Hancook IOS only lastet 25.000 km)

Agreed.

Please maintenance your Tesla’s break. At least that….

Jealous of your electricity rates overnight.

Awesome Review. I'd highly recommend trading it in before the warranty expires or you may be using that savings to replace the battery.

I am sure the children working in the mines in Africa under slave labour conditions and polluting their water ways are really happy for you and all you ev buyer

Dude, I hate to break it to you, but you’re actually an outlier in this utopian EV world. The bottom line is the EV experience is good within 50 to 100 miles radius, anything beyond that the utopia can quickly turn into a nightmare. And I’m just talking about range and charging anxiety under normal weather conditions. If you’re factoring in cost of insurance, long-term maintenance and repair, the value proposition is just not there. Anyway, good luck to you.

Not for me. It's like sitting in a greenhouse with no pants to look at.

A video for all the happy 😊😁 EVangelists...

Never has there been a car that's flopped so much more like ha ha ha😂

Auto Insurance costs $800 more per year than an ICE

you are lying . then why hertz started to sell the 100.000 teslas to get gas cars. You should be sued

fantastic... you have present a great video. Thank you for the great entertainment .

0 rattles?

I think you need to clip the portion of you wife driving and put it on youtube short and X.

Enjoy the coin.

Thanks awesome video