On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 03:09:43AM -0700, robert winfield wrote: > if you do a quick comparison of the S60 and S85 on tesla web site, the price > difference is $7,000 for the additional 25 kW. > this comes out to $280/kWh. I suspect their cost is less
SuperCharger access is included for the 85kwh, optional for the 60kwh. I'm not sure you took that into account. I think the value of the SC access is around $2k. There HAVE been rumors that Tesla battery costs are very low. I believe Tesla has offered pre-paid 85kwh battery replacements for $10k. You pay $10k for a replacement battery when you purchase the car and then have them install the battery at the time you choose, when you find the original battery not serviceable. They are probably not willing to sell batteries for $10k today, but expect to in the future. That would be ~$120/kwh. -- Willie, ONWARD! Through the fog! http://counter.li.org Linux registered user #228836 since 1995 Debian3.1/GNU/Linux system uptime 67 days 16 hours 31 minutes _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
