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It's a really fun car to drive and quite comfortable on the road, so yes, it's worth it.
Our summer electric rate is about 34 cents/kwh. In winter they bump it up, last January it was 45 cents. If you can explain to me how to get home electric for under 40 cents from Neversource, I'll be most appreciative. (yes we have solar, but every kWh that goes directly into the car is still a foregone income of 34-45 cents from the net metering, so the cost to me is the same.) It's ironic that superchargers are often cheaper than charging at home.
Nope, no time of use plans here for residential customers. They are talking about implementing it, but it will apparently take years to install the requisite metering capability.I am not familiar with the local offerings in your particular area, but in general most places allow time-of-use plans where cheap energy is available off-peak and overnight since pretty much every grid in the universe has idle capacity at 2 AM.
The most expensive way to charge at home is to sign up for and pay for the premium flat-rate plan, and then charge at night.
Tesla had the best charging network and routing guidance aside from Volvo, who uses Google and is pretty amazing there, too. So if this is a road trip mostly car, its hard to argue against the advantage of the SC network.Is it really worth it getting a Tesla?
It's a really fun car to drive and quite comfortable on the road, so yes, it's worth it.
Our summer electric rate is about 34 cents/kwh. In winter they bump it up, last January it was 45 cents. If you can explain to me how to get home electric for under 40 cents from Neversource, I'll be most appreciative. (yes we have solar, but every kWh that goes directly into the car is still a foregone income of 34-45 cents from the net metering, so the cost to me is the same.) It's ironic that superchargers are often cheaper than charging at home.
Actually, being in NJ and Interested In Charging, I know a bit more about NJ's situation.I am pretty sure that most of the US does not have TOU electricity rates. I had some a few years back that was mostly for solar customers and now it is gone. In CA, sure - TOU dominates. But not in most of the US.
Mostly we pay under 15 cents so there is not much of a need. But MA and parts of NY pay really high rates. There maybe others like NJ that are also pretty high and probably other NE states.
Here in NC, we pay like 12 cents. When I had TOU, it was 5 cents at night.
Some of the pro-Tesla and anti-Tesla posts are pretty hyperbolic.
Yes - body repair is slow and expensive. Insurance for me is not a big deal and was maybe 15% higher than a comparable car.
As far as handling - having a low COG is really helpful. No one should be taking full throttle off in a traction limiting situation - what do you think any car at a higher RPM would do? And you can turn down the regen. It would be pretty cool if Tesla did that automatically (as an option) during low traction situations.
Yes - communication with SC is terrible. The good news is that you don't need to that often.
I tried not to buy a Tesla because of Elon. But there wasn't a good enough alternative at the proper price point.