I'm stating the obvious here but I want to be clear, using superchargers on road trips is cheaper than fuel for your car but most people are not taking big road trips all the time and they will mainly charge at home where they will get SUPER CHEAP rates. I can fill up my Tesla for $8-$10 (300 miles) compared to $60+ in fuel. In addition, most cars on the road will be electric within a decade and these charging rates will go down...way down.

My Ram 1500 gets 14 mpg. Figure real world data for the gas cost estimate.

Good comparison when a person can truly afford a 50K type car. Unfortunately I do think those who want to justify the premium car will use the analysis say now it makes sense to spurge.

Thats excellent now as we continue to scale over a longer period time. If we keep this scale consistent Every 700 miles you save “$20”. If we say you do 15000 miles a year 15000 miles / 700 miles = 21.42 21.42 x $20 = $428 in gas savings Yeah not that big a difference lol

Thank you😉

The trip meter kWh/mi figure only shows the kWh used to move the wheels. It does not include the charging losses from “charger” to battery (10% in my case). My Juicebox shows the number of kWh actually pulled from the grid (I don’t know if the Tesla wall charger shows this). Also, look at your Tesla phone app under Charger Stats and you can see the number of KWh that actually filled your battery. This value (for me) is again about 10% greater than the trip meter value, because Tesla ignores kWh used for other purposes (battery temperature control and cabin heating and cooling, etc. displayed in their trip meter screen. All in all, the trip meter kWh is about 20% less than I pull from the grid. I pay at least $0.25/kwh in Connecticut (electricity is generated by natural gas and 35% from renewable) and my previous car used regular gas. So our savings calculations are at opposite sides of the spectrum. Thanks.

Love this review!! Thank you ❤

how many miles is 6%? I lose about 3-4 miles per day (24 hours). no sentry or cabin heat protection

Yeah, the ICE metrics are pretty rosy IMO. I’m in the 20-23 MPG range and 91+ octane required by my Ice has me over $150 for gas on that same trip. Take my wife’s QX 80 and it’s even worse.

Some cars do get 30mpg. 2024 Toyota Prius get 57 city and 56 highway miles per gallon.

20 dollars saved per trip let's say 1 week x 52 weeks a year so that is 1040 dollars. And even if you save 20 dollars every 2 weeks that's 520 dollars. In 2 years you get that Samsung Galaxy you was wanted so it all adds up.

Without FSD there's no reason to even buy a Tesla

Lmao I went to North Carolina with a 2021 Toyota Camry and I wasted over $160 in gas so to pay $54.97 I rather take the Tesla

The only thing about the rwd drive is that it’s so much slower than the LR and performance

Why 20%? Seems artificially high. Wouldn't 10% be more than adequate?

$20 more but two hours more vacation time.

So when you did this road trip, you stopped every 150 miles to charge? Cause you said we charged 5 times during the trip? Very good video with good advice! :) cheers from the Netherlands!

Great video. Handsome little spokesdude. My son and i are renting a Tesla Y in Las Vegas this week. Thanks for the instructions!

5 stops to drive 700 miles.

sounds like the same features of other cars. lane tracing and auto cruise control.

Thank you so much! I live in Texas and my situation is just like yours! 0.32/kWh with Tesla supercharging, and 3.2 dollar per gallon. Thank you so much you let me give up buying a Tesla because I live in an apartment and there is no charger. I think Tesla is more suitable for those family with single house.

Plus the 20-30 minutes of wasted time every time you have to stop and charge

Until majority of gas stations get into EV charging and most people can charge where they live and work, the EV case will continue to remain difficult to prove. For now, there isn’t a significant advantage of owning an EV over a gas or hybrid equivalent. I would even argue that overall, it costs more to own a Tesla over an extended period of time, all things being considered (including the cost of the time spent at charging stations).

did you add in the value of your time sitting there doing nothing

Looks better and performs just as well. Nice! Thanks for sharing this vid.

What kind of car do you have that gets 20mpg my daily get 15mpg and uses 93 so according to your prices to charge a Tesla would be way cheaper for me

If you can get in the office and only charge off your work's tesla charger, your cost of electricity is actually $0

$3.20/gallon? Was this video made when Trump was still president?….😂

So what do you do for the half hour it takes to charge your EV? I'm guessing that they have restaurants/fast food at the charging stations so maybe timing out food breaks/charging breaks to coincide would make this scenario somewhat feasible. But waiting 30 minutes for anything always seems to take longer when there's nothing to do.

Nice review. Just sold my 22 Rivian R1T and bought a 21 F150 with a V8 lol and a 23 Tesla Model 3 base to replace it. Had the Rivian for 18 months and loved it but its not really a truck the way I use a truck and I hated public charging which I needed to do it twice a week while driving to and from our house at Cape Cod. I am uising the Model 3 as a "station" or home base car. Commuting 25 miles each way to work, local shopping, etc. I am sold on an EV for daily driving - its serene, relaxing, and cheap. But I disagree that you should not be concerned about range or longer trips with the Base Model 3. People that haven't owned EVs say 270 miles that is plenty! Well that is the ideal range limit. Mix in cold weather, driving 75mph plus on 65 mph highways (if you don't you are getting run over) and suddenly its not 270 miles. Oh and do you drive ICE vehicles until the tank has its last molecule of gas left? Of course not, so you are charging at 20% probably. For sure Tesla Superchargers blow all the other networks away, Electrify America in particular SUCKS - can tell lot of stoires there. But now Tesla is opening up to GM and Rivian. Wonder how Tesla owners will feel when suddenly there is a queue at superchagers with Fords, Rivians and soon to be other makes clogging them up?

Most ICE vehicles are NOT getting 30mpg on the highway either… not really a great comparison.

wow, great videos. very informative. I am from Warren, MI. On of my biggest reasons for thinking about tesla is that I like the fact that I can fuel up at home rather than gas stations. Thanks for your videos.

I do a lot of freeway driving - 35k miles/yr on my 2022 MY- so I’m already at 75k miles. The windshield is a rock magnet! I collected my first chip about 6 months in but decided to delay replacement until a crack formed. Fortunately the chip was on the passenger side and a crack never formed. But in the next 1.5 years, I’ve collected a total of 8 chips! Recently 2 cracks have formed so I will now be replacing my windshield. I’m glad I waited because it would have been pretty disheartening to have replaced it shortly after getting the first rock chip only to continue collecting so many more.

Annnnnd it should only get more expensive as more people get ev’s

Why use cover at all, as long as you don’t need the longest range possible? - The rims looks best without cover.

Please blink if you're held against your will in your wife's basement

And gas saves u a lot of time too.... 20mins per charge

Wondering whether supercharging at 21 cents a kWh (after 11pm) or home charging at 46 cents a kWh (offpeak) is better considering the wear on the battery with super charging. I should add that the supercharging is in the next town over (non-PG&E) vs I have PG&E in my town. I live very close to the border of the two towns.

"I measured it" - "I don't have a ruler on me"

FALSE AND LIES!!! Click bate!!

You're also saving a ton of time by getting gas as opposed of waiting for that charging time

I am incredibly frustrated with Tesla customer service and problems exactly like this they did a lot of good for mankind and a lot of Ingenuity but then they don't think about the right and wrong of screwing people like this

lets be real, what car is getting 30 MPG other than like a prius or small car? I have an f150 and get about 16.5 MPG's

If it cost more to provide USS, just past it on to customer. I am happy to pay extra for the features that's more reliable. TESLA! don't fix what's not broken.

They made something very simple and made it very complicated. Excellent work. LOL

I hated the stock ones and took them off the day I bought them almost 5 years ago. I just bought some turbines like yours off amazon for $140 and got them in a day or two at the most, the look great and were easy to install. you should have done a test with factory wheels and no caps for a reference. I have zero care about the efficiency, its all about the look.

yep, i just went back to gas after driving electric for six months. nothing beats 30 seconds at the pump. tired of sitting at chargers for an hour. i never got a chance to try the tesla stations, just evgo, electrify america, etc. evgo stations are always full, always broken, and they charge $0.60kw from 12pm-10pm (on peak), on top of needing to pay for a monthly subscription. charging will run about $25 on peak. off peak is $0.28kw and that's only $10-$15, but the hours are 10pm to 6am, and the chargers are still packed at midnight since everyone wants the cheaper pricing. even if technology got us to five minute charging, it would still be close to gas prices. the biggest benefit to ev is no maintenance. just tires, and if you use regenerative braking/one pedal driving, you probably won't need brakes for at least 120k miles.

What car is getting 30 mpg?

Its all depends the best comparison take Acura mdx loaded for 75K and Tesla model X loaded for 110K even if driving 100000 on tesla only spent 6500 and Acura mdx 13000 only 6500 difference but you paid 35K more for tesla its not worth at all, plus acura much better interior and plushy.

Great video, thanks for getting straight to the point.