Hacker News Reader

Totally relevant news to 99% of us readers who wont be driving a Tesla anytime soon :)

even years ago, a model s was as expensive to own, all costs accounted for over the span of seven to ten years, as a honda odyssey minivan. they are about to release a car that costs 35000 dollars.

There's literally a sh*t ton of assumptions, and caveats to the comparison you're referring to: https://www.teslacost.com/model

Also, the "winner" of his comparison was a RAV4 EV (by about $20K) The Tesla finish mid-pack (behind the Ody)

So three years ago, the high-end, not-meant-to-be-cheap $92,800 car was 5% more expensive than the Odyssey according to a decent-looking model (but cheaper according to some reports), and significantly more expensive than the since-discontinued Rav4 EV.

Fair, it's not a slam-dunk that the Tesla S was a great purchase if your goal was saving money. I'm pretty sure it' wasn't the best option in that case.

The Model 3 sticker price is less than half the S85, though. Short-term, yeah, most people still won't be driving a Tesla, but when I see volume increasing and unit price decreasing, I extrapolate to "Tesla could easily become a major player", not to"this is irrelevant to 99% of us".

Reply on news.ycombinator.com