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Over 3 years of driving my swasticar, I've spent just $800 on electricity to go over 40,000 miles.
Other than replacing the tires once, no other maintenance.
I'm working on terminating my financing without too much loss, and will likely go back to driving a $30/week gas car for awhile until I can figure something out.
It honestly kinda sucks, but fuck Musk.
Are there any sort of subscriptions that make you keep paying Musk for the car? I think he's already been paid for the purchase, might as well keep the car? Unless you just don't want to be seen in it of course.
I don't like being associated with it. Also in my area people are spray painting and kicking dents and breaking windows of Tesla's...which costs me repair money. I'd prefer to avoid that.
All extremely valid concerns. Sucks, I do like what Tesla stood for until a few years ago. I've always hated that they normalised tablets in place of physical controls though.
Why wouldn't you just buy an EV from a different brand? All the benefits you describe are of an EV, not a Tesla
Got you, sorry to come across preachy. It's probably more that I missed your $30/month point which I guess means to lease a shit box.
Naturally only works if it works but 3yrs back I moved to a electric moped and the savings have been insane. I feel better about hiring a car/grabbing a taxi/being fleeced by the train companies once in a while
That moped sounds awesome! Unfortunately 1-2 times a week my commute is 1.5 hours and...I'm not sure if that'd be great.
If anything, other EVs would be even less maintenance because Tesla uses lower quality materials, has less experience designing cars, and the cars are more prone to faults than almost any other car manufacturers cars.