Teslas are now more expensive to recharge than it is to fuel an equivalent petrol-powered car – at least if you’re using the Tesla Supercharger network.
A recent price increase to use the fast-charging Tesla Superchargers and incorrect fuel figures on the Tesla website mean claims that recharging using a Supercharger is “less than the cost of petrol” are incorrect.
According to Tesla the cost of charging a Tesla Model 3 is $7 per 100km compared with $12 for a rival petrol car.
Those estimates include at least three incorrect figures: how much electricity a Tesla Model 3 uses, the cost of electricity at a Tesla Supercharger, and the price of petrol.
The recent increase in the Supercharger cost to 52 cents per kilowatt-hour is well up on the 42c/kWh on the Tesla website.
That means recharging even the most efficient Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus – which consumes 18.8kWh/100km, according to figures supplied to the government – would cost $9.78 per 100km using a Supercharger.
A rival BMW 330i costs $8.00 per 100km assuming an average cost of premium unleaded of $1.38, one sourced from the NSW Government’s Fuel Check website.
Consuming a claimed average of 5.8 liters per 100km – well below the 7.0L/100km figure used by the Tesla website – the BMW is 18 percent cheaper to fuel than a Tesla is to recharge.
Choose the hybrid-powered Lexus IS300h and that per-100km fuel cost drops to $6.76 – about 31 percent less than the cost of a Tesla charged with a Supercharger.
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“Choose the hybrid-powered Lexus IS300h”
Studies have shown that hybrids do just as well as good compact cars. So, singling out hybrids might not be totally forthright.
Thats all well and good but Tesla dont give the losses associated with supercharging! Given the battery pack is refrigerated and liquid cooled to cope with such high current loads I doubt if 10% of the power get to teh battery! A Swedish motering magazing drove a Tesla 3 and Volvo TDi down to Nice in the South of france, the Volvo cost half what the Tesla cost! And that ignores the tax content of road fuels neurone, thats over half and soon EVs will be paying a mileage charge so the EV will cost 4 time a gas car!
Most all liberal Democrats need to have their Brains recharged