I never paid more than $20K for a car - My 2000 Mazda MPV, bought new - still running, has 130K miles on it.
So, if I buy a $20K car, and instead, spend the $40K extra it costs me to get a Tesla, on gas, at four bucks a gallon, twenty miles to the gallon, I get 200,000 miles out of it. I sincerely doubt the Tesla is going to last that long, without multiple expensive battery pack changes, and those batteries don't get charged for free. It is a status symbol for the rich, now. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > I love the way they look but unfortunately they are pieces of crap. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the-ev-highway.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 > > http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2013/05/27/if-tesla-would-stop-selling-cars-wed-all-save-some-money/ > > http://jalopnik.com/5887265/tesla-motors-devastating-design-problem > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozguru@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 3:27 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Electric Car! Woo Hoo! Move along to the junk > yard, you silly Prius! > > > >  > On 08/23/2013 11:28 AM, obbajeeba wrote: > >  > >http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57599474/elon-musk-tesla-to-make-affordable-electric-car-in-three-to-four-years/ > > > > > >http://www.teslamotors.com/models > > > >My materialistic side of enlightenment wants one or two of > these! > > > I wonder what Tesla Motors thinks is "affordable"? In the Bay Area > that might be $60K. There are already hybrids at $18K but need to > be around $12K. Electrics need to be $12K to be affordable. > Affordable means different things in this unequal world. >
