My Tesla Model Y Juniper Cost $41 to Charge at Home for Just 282 Miles, Boston Gas Would Be $15 for the Same Distance

At $.33/kw, that charge should be $25.00....not $41. At $3.13/gallon for Boston gas...$25 gets you 8 gallons. You would need to get 35mpg to match that EV.

$41/282 miles is $0.145/mile, not $0.33.

It's still much more expensive than in other parts of the country, but the math wasn't mathing.

Just get solar panels and the electricity rate is definitely less than. 33 cents pet kwk

F*ck Boston! I pay $25 per month to charge my Tesla Model 3 eight hours per day, seven days a week with Tesla Energy.

Haters are gonna hate. You gotta be dumb to charge somewhere for $0.51 /kWh. Hell Teslas superchargers avg $0.30/kWh . Be smart and find you cheaper electricity. I charge at home for $0.09/ kWh and when traveling find most hotel chargers are free. Just have to look hard enough.

F*ck Boston! I pay $25 per month to charge my Tesla Model 3 eight hours per day, seven days a week with Tesla Energy.

That is very misleading the 125kwh is for three months March April and May

Maybe you should retake high school math. The Facebook user clearly suffers from basic arithmetic problems, and so does the author. Ps - blocking torque fake news from my feed.

The calculation is wrong it’s not 33 cent per mile. You’re calculating the total cost of charging which includes the energy that is now in the car’s battery that hasn’t been used against the mileage of the car. This car consumes roughly 250 Wh/mi at $0.33 per KWh it’s $0.08 per mile. So very close to a Corolla but this is an SUV not a sedan.

At 2cents kw hour at midnight always charge at this time. I pay way less than 15 dollars. My latest power bill for 1600 square foot home 78 dollars. Paying less than a hundred for power is why I have no solar.

Driving around with a clean conscience except for all the harmful micro particles shed by car tires...

Cry me a river.

None of the math works, and the premises are biased (WHY would the EV be assigned 100% of the household fixed charges?). BOGUS. Count on “Torque News” for insidious fossil fuel-supporting propaganda. If there is even rough cost parity, it is due to artificially suppressed cost of gasoline due to government subsidies.

This article is a lie. The EV costs are exaggerated, the gas costs are miscalculated, and the vehicles compared aren't even the same much or anywhere near the same performance category. At least use another SUV.

Additionally, the garage insulation statement is absurd. Insulate from what? Gasoline fires are far more common than battery fires. They also burn incredibly far. Battery fires usually smoke for several minutes before producing a flame. Aresonists use gasoline to start fires, none of them bother using batteries. It would take too long.

Stop lying to people.

I think you meant lumber not lumbar.

This article is full of errors and poor assumptions to drive a specific narrative. There's no integrity in this reporting which goes to show you the ethics of the author.

Read some of the comments. Cherry picked data and random numbers are used. Just as 1 example, they're using winter efficiency data.

This article is pure fake. First, it came from someone unknown. Second, a supercharger would have been cheaper. Third, I have a model Y and charge at home and it never cost that much.

$41 at 33 cents per kWhr would mean the car has a 124kwhr battery....which it doesn't...it is 75 as stated above. Assuming worst case starting to charge at 0% SOC the max cost would be $24.75.

282 miles is the EPA range ... City driving would actually use more than that as Evie's are much more efficient in traffic in City driving. Considering again, worst case scenario of 282 you get 8.7 cents a mile.

Good luck getting over 25mpg out of a 384 hp 0-60 in 4.6 secs gasoline suv. Second 125kw for 282 miles is misleading. Who puts 282 miles on a vehicle in 2-3 months? Driven fast a X plaid goes 312 miles on that much electricity. $10 fee is not right and should be averaged out. Nice click bait.

My Tesla Model Y Juniper Cost Me My Digity, Self-Respect, Wife, Friends, Child, and My Dog, but I’m Happy to Say I Support Dogetard!

Good article. Dashes the myth proported by EV owners about how much they save on fuel. There can be big savings, but it is dependent on electricity rates, gas prices, weather, and other factors. EVs are cool, although Tesla is probably the best, but I would not buy one now because of Musk. Anyway, I live in MN, a bad climate for an EV. Even if I had a set up for a home charger, I would still pass on an EV. I want the car to serve me, not spend so much effort to efficiently use the car.

Not a single comment about how (assuming the car came with a dead battery and all charging was at home) that this shows you were using over 420watts per mile, which is nearly double what it should be. Meaning something draining the battery like phantom drain, sentry mode, lots of time being in the car not moving, manually forcing the HVAC to max heat/fan, etc. it would actually be even worse assuming they gave it to you on even have a charge. 125kwh is about the equivalent of 1.5 full battery charges of nearly 300 miles per battery charge so should have gotten another 150+ miles (again assuming you got the car with a basically dead battery). I would bring it in for service.

At $0.33 per kwh you are at near equivalent of $2.60 per gallon of gas for car that gets 30mi/gal (based on basic math, $.88 vs $.87) though an electric car should still save on maintenance and use less while idle or stopped in traffic.

I would also look into eversources rebates for charging at home or switching to an alternative electric company (allowed when on national grid or eversources). Some offer discounts or rebates for EV charging during certain hours when using a compatible charger that can report usage, while also often charging less for the electricity itself (though still the insanely high delivery fee on MAs electricity). One example is ClearView energy. They rebate charging done between 11pm and 6am.

Tesla Y has a 75 kwh battery. 75 * $0.33 = $24.75 with a range of 300 miles. Ignore the $10 being he would still pay that regardless of having an EV or not.
Someone's math is bad.

So the person never said they get 282 miles on a charge, they said their car has 282 miles on it.

It's 6 cents per mile not 30 cents. My Model 3 gets 5 miles per KWh and I pay about 30 cents per KWh including the EV off peak discount that National Grid offers. A 30MPG car would pay about 9 cents per mile.

I live in Washington state where we pay the 3rd highest gas prices in the US and consequently the lowest electricity prices (my prices is under $0.07 per kilowatt hour through our electricity coop). We have an SUV and payed somewhere between $500 - $800 per month in gas when it was our primary commuting car. I pay roughly $40 per month to charge my tesla at home. I had no clue people in other states paid that much for electricity.

I'll take things that didn't happen for $500 Alex.

What kind of mileage are you getting per gallon? At best you got 5 gallons for $15, that means you're getting close to 60 miles per gallon. Your gas cost for 282 miles is closer to the cost of charging the Tesla

In NY they have programs with better rates for overnight charging. I’m also using excess solar production, so an EV is a no brainer for me. It’s like I’m driving for free. Downside is, since it’s free I drive a lot more so I’ll probably wear it out sooner.

Sign up for time-of-day pricing. We charge between midnight and 8am to get a lower rate from Con Ed. We signed with an electric supplier for 9.9 cents per kilowatt hour.