I think that’s the underpinning of the design. No body panels and no paint shop=cheaper to produce. Assuming they can make it work, it’s certainly innovative even if not everyone’s cup of tea from a design perspective (I personally don’t care for it but I do appreciate them trying something different). I think the…

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the main purpose of Tesla trying folded steel body panels was to avoid the insanely high cost of stamping presses and tooling. The idea is that folding flat steel is much simpler and less machine intensive. On such a low volume vehicle the cost savings per piece…

“You don’t take out a loan for an iPhone,”

My energy cost is $.12/kWh. It costs us ~$5 for 100 miles on our ID.4.

Well I not only know how to read ‘TSLA’, I also know how to read income statements, cash flow statements and balance sheets.

Yeah I know. It’s like a lot of people here have jobs tied to big oil, legacy car companies or dealerships and thus, feel threatened by Tesla and love to hate them for that reason.

Tesla haters gonna hate. Meanwhile if you want a laugh, check out how much debt Toyota has compared to Tesla. There's a lot more to this than just profit per vehicle. Servicing hundreds of millions in debt is crippling the old automakers. 

Lol.  Tesla killed it in earnings and this is what Jalopnik posts.  

This is a re-release of the same bs study that they guys keep pushing. You need to work on your journalism skills.

Yeah this garbage has been spread arond for a while. You should delete this and apologize for spreading bs.

I agree. Living in WA, I’m charged $0.10 per kWh. That’s roughly ~33% of the range in my model Y. Which is $2.50. We have a $225 dollar registration fee every year. Slapping that on to an average of 12K miles driven is an additional 1.875 cents per mile.

In what world do you live in where replacing the engine on your ICE car only costs 2-5k$?

Cost to buy and drive for 10 years:

Absolutely. As an EV driver, this headline does not pass the smell test. Can’t believe the editors didn’t catch this, though they probably got paid extra to let it slip through.

Sounds like she could be jalopnik writer of the month lol

Hahahaha people are still posting shit like this? Next article should be; vehicles equipped with airbags and seatbelts strangle and kill more people than vehicles without. Repost some articles from 1970. Has about the same amount of truth as this crap. 

I averaged .26 kWh/mi today in a Model 3. That’s 26kWh for 100 miles. I buy my kWh for $.11 at home, so that’s $2.86 for 100 miles. Gas is $3.25/gallon here soooo..

It easy to forget about the bill you don’t have to pay and focus on the one that is due. I am bracing for my first electric/gas bill in the eight months since switching to solar. I will just sum up all the utility bills for the same period from prior year, and then decide.

Is this Facebook where grandpa is spouting whatever BS some random Fox News talking head told him to think? JFC I expect a bit more from a site dealing with cars. 

Seriously?