I forget the exact details, I had several exchanges with one of their VP's, though not from Engineering.
I would have been able to meet up with the engineering team in Manhattan, but that fell through.
Evidently you can charge it everyday & the expected life (at full power) is over 100,000 miles, probably 125,000. At this point it will still operate but performance will fall off.
The story is that they haven't had to replace a battery yet. There isn't an available number for the price. I would guess it to be several thousand. Maybe $3,000 or so. I'd expect that to drop by the time one had to be replaced. Using it as a second car it might take me 10 years to roll 100,000 miles.
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Charge runs about 350 miles. I think many of these specs are on the website.
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The toxic waste would be the battery. The battery is supposed to be recyclable, but I have no idea what the ancillary environmental issues are with respect to manufacture. The company is based in California, where the environmental laws are strict, but wherever the battery is manufactured is unknown to me.
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Electricity is supplied through house current, plus the optional solar panel.
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Toyota is obviously less expensive & more available. I would imagine one would do a cost analysis to consider where the price of gasoline & motor oil would have to be to formulate a breakeven.
Of course, you should have fewer dollars spent in maintenance due to the few moving parts in the power plant vis a vie the gasoline engine.
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Last I checked, two weeks ago.....an order today would deliver a Tesla in 13 months.
In the can are plans for a sedan, and a larger family car. |
