Tesla released a report in which the cost of ownership of the electric car and the car on the gasoline engine. The document is available on the company’s website.
In the disclosed report on the effect of TESLA cars on the environment and economy, the company’s experts compared the cost of ownership of the electric focus and a passenger car Toyota Camry and BMW 3. It turned out that at the middle distance – after 60 thousand miles or about one hundred thousand kilometers – Toyota Camry is more profitable other cars. Here, the cost of ownership of the Japanese car on a mile or 1.6 kilometer is 50 cents or 37 rubles, Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus – 55 cents or about 40 rubles.
The report states that the cost, tax and other expenses for the TESLA car when purchasing it is slightly higher, but this is compensated by low fuel costs (in the case of an electric car – electricity). The cost of ownership of BMW 3 mile is approaching one dollar.
However, after five years, or when an indicator of 60 thousand miles, the machine on electric traction becomes more profitable in maintenance than the traditional car. At first, the cost of ownership of Tesla Model 3 and Toyota Camry is equal, and then the electric car begins to do cheaper.
“Operational costs for the entire service life of electric vehicles are lower than that of vehicles with an internal combustion engine, due to lower maintenance costs and cheap electricity, and the residual value of used Tesla cars remains extremely high,” the company’s specialists summarized.
previously analysts stated that the Russians are more often transplanted on electrocars not due to environmental awareness, but for the sake of savings. For example, in the Far East, where some popularity of electrocarbers recorded, higher prices for gasoline, and electricity on the contrary is cheaper than in other subjects of the Russian Federation.