Tesla Model 3 named winner in KBB’s 5-Year Cost to Own Awards 2022. MAGA wets panties

[Joe Capitalist]

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-mode...to-own-awards/

Tesla Model 3 named as one of the winners in KBB’s 5-Year Cost to Own Awards for 2022


The Tesla Model 3 was recently deemed by Kelley Blue Book as one of the winners in its 5-Year Cost to Own Awards for 2022. KBB’s 5-Year Cost to Own Award explores the costs associated with the ownership of a vehicle. This includes the vehicle’s price, maintenance costs, fuel or charging rates, any state tax, and registration fees, as well as a car’s depreciation over a 5-year ownership period, among others.

As per the automotive research company, the 2022 Tesla Model 3 leads the “Electric Luxury Vehicle” segment with a 5-year cost to own of $48,233. According to Kelley Blue Book, the Model 3’s 5-year cost to own is $16,411 less than the segment average. This is quite impressive, especially considering that the Model 3 is Tesla’s entry-level vehicle today.

The fact that the Model 3 was dubbed by KBB as one of the winners in its 2022 5-Year Cost to Own Awards is quite unsurprising, especially if one were to consider that electric vehicles like Teslas do not need as much maintenance as their internal combustion engine-powered counterparts. And being part of Tesla’s ecosystem, the Model 3 enjoys a number of perks that some of its rivals in the “Electric Luxury Vehicle” segment do not enjoy as well, such as Supercharging rates, which are extremely convenient and affordable

[Walt]

Some great stuff is coming out of electric cars.

[Watermark]

Some great stuff is coming out of electric cars.

Flames and smoke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle_fire_incidents

[Into the Night]

Flames and smoke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle_fire_incidents

Well put.

[Into the Night]

Some great stuff is coming out of electric cars.

Well...if you like that sort of thing.

[Into the Night]

Some great stuff is coming out of electric cars.

Such as CO2, large amounts of lithium mining tailing waste, large deposits of sulfur salts, child slave labor, and high costs.

[Nordberg]

Such as CO2, large amounts of lithium mining tailing waste, large deposits of sulfur salts, child slave labor, and high costs.

They have been mining lithium for a long time.

Make sense, Check your batteries.

[Into the Night]

They have been mining lithium for a long time.

Make sense, Check your batteries.

Leaving large amounts of tailing waste and large deposits of sulfur salts. I guess you also support child slave labor as well.

[Into the Night]

They have been mining lithium for a long time.

Make sense, Check your batteries.

So you LIKE strip mining! You LIKE the pollution of toxic sulfur salts! You LIKE child slave labor! You LIKE CO2!

[Damocles]

You never really own a Tesla. Tesla Corp can reach into and change programming in your car every time you charge at one of their stations.

[ThatOwlWoman]

You never really own a Tesla. Tesla Corp can reach into and change programming in your car every time you charge at one of their stations.

Wut?? Like what programming?

[Damocles]

Wut?? Like what programming?

There is a simple code change to allow the car to go at quicker speeds... If you pay the extra money they simply change one item from N to Y and boom, car has some extra speed that you have paid for... If you fix your own Tesla this voids the warranty, and regardless of what you paid for they can then update the software. The 1st thing they do it change it so quick charge from a Tesla station no longer works, the second is they take away the boost so you car no longer performs as you paid for it to perform.

[ThatOwlWoman]

There is a simple code change to allow the car to go at quicker speeds... If you pay the extra money they simply change one item from N to Y and boom, car has some extra speed that you have paid for... If you fix your own Tesla this voids the warranty, and regardless of what you paid for they can then update the software. The 1st thing they do it change it so quick charge from a Tesla station no longer works, the second is they take away the boost so you car no longer performs as you paid for it to perform.

Oh dear. Why would they disable quick charging? Costs *them* more money when you use it?

I'll pass that along to Mr. Owl, who has been researching them for a possible future purchase. Do you have a link or site I can send him?

[Damocles]

Oh dear. Why would they disable quick charging? Costs *them* more money when you use it?

I'll pass that along to Mr. Owl, who has been researching them for a possible future purchase. Do you have a link or site I can send him?

There's some guy who does videos of himself fixing up "totalled" Tesla vehicles, he talks about these things regularly.

I would suggest him going for a Rivian (The R1T is a great electric pickup truck). I love Tesla vehicles, don't get me wrong, I just dislike the "warranty" rules and the reality that I am basically renting it. If you want to trade it in you have to go through Tesla for that too... per their contracts that you sign when you "purchase" one of these things. It really depends on how much your husband cares about open source stuff. If he doesn't care that nobody at all but a Tesla mechanic can ever work on it... then go for it.

[Joe Capitalist]

Oh dear. Why would they disable quick charging? Costs *them* more money when you use it?

I'll pass that along to Mr. Owl, who has been researching them for a possible future purchase. Do you have a link or site I can send him?

Don't pass that on. Damocles had NO FUCKING IDEA what he's talking about. Any link he sends you will be from a MAGA website infested with with lies and misinformation. Do your own research or talk to a Tesla owner. There's a reason Tesla can't keep up with demand. People LOVE their Teslas. And MAGA wets panties.