Actually, I took the $2,000 into account On their page you check the SC option for the S60 and then comapre with the S85. The diff is $280/kwh I suspect their costs are much less than that tesla has nice tech and I really want one At the moment tho, all I can afford is a leaf As an aside, if you look at the floods in Colorado and How they are affecting the fossil fuel industry there I suspect this may accelerate the move to EV's
------------------------------ On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 8:15 AM EDT Willie McKemie wrote: >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) > _______________________________________________ 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)
