- Feb 7, 2012
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Due to some unfortunate news, that my mother in law has stage 4 lung cancer, my wife is pushing hard to move back to her hometown to be there in case it is the end.
... I'm probably putting the cart before the horse since nothing is set in stone yet, but I was offered a position 44 miles from our hometown that would be a MAJOR boost in salary and title for me, so it would probably be stupid not to take it for my career and keeping the Mrs. happy.
My commute would be ~100 miles a day round trip on all 2-lane 55mph roads and I am seriously looking at a Model S if / when we make the move.
My wife and I currently both have Lexus IS350's, she would keep hers and I would probably sell mine.
Crunching the numbers I came up with the following:
Lexus currently has a $325/mo. payment, $120/mo. in insurance, based on the "new" commute I would be looking at like $350/mo. in gas, then 2200 miles a month just for work I would figure $200/mo towards maintenance the Tesla would not have (oil changes, belts, plugs, etc etc etc).
.... to drive the Lexus in the new situation would be ~$1000/mo.
Looking at the Tesla, I could get the floor model 85 Kw (not Performance) battery at the local dealer for a payment (not counting tax incentive) for $1050/mo on a payment. I expect the electric bill (based on reading Tesla owners forums) to jump ~$50/mo., since we would be moving out of a metro area and I would be going to a "safer" car, I would think insurance would stay the same or drop, and the only real maintenance on the car would be tires/brakes.
.... this puts the Tesla ownership cost at ~$1220/mo.... not counting the tax credit and the Tesla buy back promise (they'll buy it back in 3 years for AT LEAST 50% of the cost you paid).
$220 more a month +/- .... Its extremely tempting.
... I'm probably putting the cart before the horse since nothing is set in stone yet, but I was offered a position 44 miles from our hometown that would be a MAJOR boost in salary and title for me, so it would probably be stupid not to take it for my career and keeping the Mrs. happy.
My commute would be ~100 miles a day round trip on all 2-lane 55mph roads and I am seriously looking at a Model S if / when we make the move.
My wife and I currently both have Lexus IS350's, she would keep hers and I would probably sell mine.
Crunching the numbers I came up with the following:
Lexus currently has a $325/mo. payment, $120/mo. in insurance, based on the "new" commute I would be looking at like $350/mo. in gas, then 2200 miles a month just for work I would figure $200/mo towards maintenance the Tesla would not have (oil changes, belts, plugs, etc etc etc).
.... to drive the Lexus in the new situation would be ~$1000/mo.
Looking at the Tesla, I could get the floor model 85 Kw (not Performance) battery at the local dealer for a payment (not counting tax incentive) for $1050/mo on a payment. I expect the electric bill (based on reading Tesla owners forums) to jump ~$50/mo., since we would be moving out of a metro area and I would be going to a "safer" car, I would think insurance would stay the same or drop, and the only real maintenance on the car would be tires/brakes.
.... this puts the Tesla ownership cost at ~$1220/mo.... not counting the tax credit and the Tesla buy back promise (they'll buy it back in 3 years for AT LEAST 50% of the cost you paid).
$220 more a month +/- .... Its extremely tempting.