It seems even Tesla owners don't fully understand the way they work! I have just bought my 3rd Tesla this week. I sold the last one on FB privately in 4 days. It was 2 years 5 months old with 82,000 miles on it (miles NOT km's) My depreciation was £35,000. (around 50%, which considering the high mileage is pretty good). My fuel for driving the 82,000 miles cost me circa £400 as when using Tesla chargers the electricity was included for life as part of the cost (the new buyer also gets the benefit of the free electricity across Europe). If I was buying petrol I would have spent circa £17-20,000 on fuel. Add that back into the equation and my depreciation is only around £15-18,000 circa 20-25%. Check the numbers on any other 80,000 mile 2 -3year old petrol car and see how it stacks up. Oh, I also got 19% corporation tax relief on the purchase price immediately!
My average mileage was 670 miles per week and the range in good weather was circa 200 miles and cold weather circa 170-180. I regularly went below 5% and charged to 100% and had very little battery degradation. Same with the previous Tesla which I drove 53,000 miles in 2 years.
I have driven to Geneva twice, the first time when the Tesla network was much smaller back in March 2015. It took 1.5 hours longer than when I drove in the Range Rover. In the summer of 2017 I drove with the kids to Bergen for a week's road trip. Again only using Tesla's own chargers and no issues at all.
I've had the new 100kwh battery Tesla a few days now and have racked up 500 miles. The range is a bit better, I anticipate 240 being my real world range in good weather.
