A lot of media people who have tested a Tesla Roadster have criticized the perceived mileage it gets on a single charge. Of course, when you give an automotive journalist a car he's going to thrash the hell out of it. (A few years ago I saw a bunch of Chrysler 300s after a media day at a local track. It wasn't a pretty site.) It's to be expected that a person given the task of writing about a vehicle will do anything and everything he can to the car in question in an effort to get every last ounce of performance out of it.
It makes for interesting reading, and more importantly... great photos to go along with the article.
However, unless you spend more time at a track than in traffic, very little that's been written about the Tesla in mainstream automotive journalism is relevant to the real world.
What is relevant is this article I found on endgadget.com earlier this week.
A Tesla driven in a normal day to day manner could potentially get about 280 miles on a charge. That's just over 450 kilometers. Now we're talking.
And how much does it cost to charge? That depends where you live and how much your electricity costs, but I've seen estimates ranging from $0.06/mile to as low as $0.02/mile.
Worst case scenario.... a "fill up" costs just over $16.
Best case... less than $6.
And electricity prices don't fluctuate on a whim either.
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Just a little more data regard the mpg. The original data looks good.
Electricity costs of $0.06/mile yields only 50mpg but $0.02/mile
yields 150mpg with gas costing $3.00 a gallon.
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