[0:00] my longrange model 3 has hit 50,000
[0:03] miles in a little over 2 years I'm going
[0:05] to go through all the costs which
[0:07] include charging maintenance and
[0:09] insurance and compared them to what an
[0:11] average gas car would have cost me over
[0:13] those miles I did a whole 50,000 Mi
[0:15] review which included cost and a bunch
[0:17] of other things that's on my channel but
[0:19] in this video I'm just talking about the
[0:21] costs so let's go ahead and talk about
[0:23] my main expense first which has been
[0:25] charging and technically I'm just a hair
[0:27] over 52,000 Mi you can see my total
[0:30] spent charging over the life of my car
[0:33] in 2022 was
[0:35] $689 in 2023 was
[0:38] $1,679 and in 2024 so far it's been
[0:42] $472 and that all adds up to a total
[0:45] charging cost of
[0:47] $2,840 and the app is pretty cool
[0:49] because it actually shows you how much
[0:51] you spent at home versus at
[0:53] superchargers so at home over that time
[0:55] in 2022 I spent
[0:58] $276 in 202 three I spent $718 and so
[1:02] far in 2024 at home I spent $341 for a
[1:07] total at home charging cost of
[1:10] $1,335 and on the other hand
[1:12] supercharging in 2022 I spent $413 and
[1:15] 2023 I spent $961 and so far in 2024 I
[1:20] spent $131 for a grand supercharging
[1:23] cost total of
[1:26] $1,505 which I actually found kind of
[1:28] interesting because we charge at home
[1:30] pretty much all the time except when we
[1:32] go on road trips which kind of makes
[1:34] sense because on road trips although
[1:36] we're only gone for a weekend or a week
[1:38] or two at most we do rack up a lot of
[1:41] miles and superchargers are quite a bit
[1:43] more expensive than at home charging so
[1:46] just keep in mind if you're somebody who
[1:47] doesn't road trip as much as we do your
[1:50] cost for charging can be a lot less than
[1:52] what ours is but anyways
[1:54] $2,840 to go a little over 52,000 Mi may
[1:58] or may not sound like a lot so let's see
[2:01] what it would have cost us if we were in
[2:02] a gas car and what's cool about the
[2:04] Tesla app is that when calculating these
[2:06] savings it takes into account the
[2:08] average gas prices in your state and I
[2:11] think gas is a little more expensive
[2:13] here in Nevada so anyways 2022 like I
[2:15] said I spent $689 charging gas would
[2:19] have cost me
[2:21] $1,771 so I saved a total of
[2:24] $1,082 that year in 2023 I spent $1,679
[2:29] gas would have cost me
[2:31] $4,240 so that year I saved
[2:36] $2,565 and this year so far like I said
[2:39] I spent $472 charging gas would have
[2:42] cost me
[2:44] $1,474 and this year I have saved
[2:47] $102 so far so adding it all up like I
[2:50] said I spent
[2:51] $2,840 charging gas over the last 52,000
[2:55] mil would have cost me somewhere around
[2:58] 7,29 $6 so in total by not having to get
[3:03] gas I have saved
[3:07] $464 which is a pretty good chunk of
[3:09] change and that's only for charging
[3:11] let's go ahead and talk about
[3:12] maintenance next and spoiler alert this
[3:15] will be a short section because I have
[3:17] not done much to my car because I
[3:19] haven't had to maintenance wise the
[3:20] things I've done so far I've put in air
[3:23] filters I've put air in my tires I've
[3:25] done tire rotations three times and I
[3:28] bought a gallon of windshield wash fluid
[3:31] and that's it the air filters I
[3:33] installed myself and listen I'm not very
[3:35] handy so if I can do it you can
[3:37] definitely do it I bought these air
[3:38] filters from Amazon from a company
[3:40] called the basor they're very easy to
[3:42] put in they kit comes with everything
[3:43] that you need I'll leave a link down
[3:45] below if you're interested and these
[3:47] cost me $30 I have put air in my tires a
[3:50] few times it doesn't cost me anything
[3:52] but it is maintenance and something that
[3:54] I can do myself I've also rotated and
[3:57] balanced my tires three times I think
[4:00] Tesla recommends specifically every
[4:03] 6,250 miles to rotate your tires so
[4:06] maybe over the last 52,000 miles I
[4:08] should have done it more often but I've
[4:10] done it three times so far for a total
[4:12] of $40 each which adds up to a total of
[4:16] $120 by balancing and rotating my tires
[4:19] and yes I did have to buy a gallon of
[4:21] windshield washer fluid even living here
[4:23] in Vegas although it was not from Vegas
[4:26] it was from our cross country road trip
[4:28] we got stuck in Colorado in a snowstorm
[4:31] so I went through a ton of the
[4:32] windshield washer fluids I had to refill
[4:34] it I sat at a local gas station there
[4:36] and that cost us a total of $8 and
[4:39] technically I had this maintenance as
[4:41] well this literally happened the morning
[4:44] after I got my car I had 17 freaking
[4:46] miles on the odometer and while it
[4:49] sucked it was 100% the other driver's
[4:51] fault obviously so this actually didn't
[4:53] cost me anything except for some severe
[4:55] heartbreak for a while so between the
[4:57] air filters rotating my tires and the
[4:59] windshield washer fluid maintenance has
[5:02] cost me a total of
[5:04] $158 and you may notice that I didn't
[5:06] include tires and well that's because
[5:09] I'm still on the original tires people
[5:11] say that Tesla tires tend to wear much
[5:13] quickly but at 52,000 Mi mine are still
[5:16] looking pretty good and I do have the
[5:18] acceleration boost and while I do enjoy
[5:20] that from time to time I generally don't
[5:22] drive like a maniac so maybe that's
[5:24] helped preserve the life of the tires so
[5:26] my maintenance cost is $158 which is
[5:28] super low but how much would I have
[5:30] spent if I was driving a gas car so
[5:32] obviously I couldn't find exact stats of
[5:35] how much maintenance costs for 50,000 mi
[5:37] in the gas car so I asked chat GPT after
[5:40] 52,000 Mi on a typical gasoline car how
[5:43] much would a person spend on average in
[5:45] maintenance costs and it told me the
[5:47] first 50,000 mi in a gas car includes
[5:50] these things and cost somewhere between
[5:53] 1,920 and
[5:55] $4,600 so how much have I saved well
[5:58] pick whatever number you want between
[5:59] 1920 and 4,600 and subtract 158 and
[6:04] that's about how much I saved which is a
[6:06] lot now let's talk about insurance and I
[6:08] do have Tesla insurance and to be honest
[6:11] I don't recommend Tesla Insurance when
[6:13] something happens it is impossible to
[6:15] get a hold of an adjuster or anybody at
[6:17] the Tesla insurance company but they are
[6:20] the cheapest for Teslas at least by a
[6:22] pretty good amount compared to other
[6:24] companies I've gotten quotes from so
[6:25] Tesla Insurance monitors your driving
[6:27] habits it gives you a safety score
[6:29] depending on how safe you drive and then
[6:31] it gives you a rate based on your safety
[6:33] score and I think I saw somewhere a
[6:35] safety score of 90 is average but my
[6:38] fiance and I drive normal I would say
[6:41] and we have no issue getting in the high
[6:43] 90s for our safy score so I feel like 90
[6:45] is not hard to do but I just wanted to
[6:46] clarify that because based on our safety
[6:48] score our insurance premium does go up
[6:51] or down a few dollars a month depending
[6:53] on our score that month and also I do
[6:55] have pretty decent insurance coverage
[6:57] much more than the minimum so keep that
[6:59] in mind so anyway my upcoming premium
[7:01] for this month here in October is
[7:05] $93.7 and that's based off a safety
[7:07] score of 99 and like I said it does go
[7:09] up or down a few dollars month per month
[7:12] but let's use this number and compare
[7:14] insurance premiums to a gas car so again
[7:16] I asked chat GPT what does an average
[7:19] driver pay per month for car insurance
[7:21] and an average gas car it gave me
[7:24] somewhere between 125 and 175 so we'll
[7:26] use 150 just for an estimate so doing
[7:29] some quick math let's do 150 minus what
[7:31] I pay $
[7:33] 9379 equals $
[7:36] 5621 which is about how much I'm saving
[7:39] per month by using Tesla insurance and
[7:41] like I said I've had my car for a little
[7:42] over two years so if we take that number
[7:45] that I'm saving per month at 5621 and
[7:47] take it over two years I saved
[7:52] $1,349 and4 cents on car insurance over
[7:55] 2 years and I know some people actually
[7:57] say that Teslas are more expensive to
[7:59] ensure but most Tesla owners I talk to
[8:01] are actually saving money on their car
[8:04] insurance especially those who also have
[8:06] Tesla insurance and yes again even with
[8:08] that much savings we still wouldn't
[8:10] recommend Tesla Insurance the model 3
[8:13] collision went okay but we got an
[8:14] accident in our model y back in February
[8:17] and it is now October we are still
[8:19] waiting for our deductible because they
[8:21] guy didn't have insurance but it's long
[8:23] story but things just move super super
[8:26] slow with Tesla insurance so let's go
[8:28] ahead and wrap up all up what you've
[8:30] been waiting for how much I've spent in
[8:32] total versus how much I have saved in
[8:34] total so my total cost including
[8:36] charging maintenance and insurance total
[8:39] charging cost at home and supercharging
[8:41] combined
[8:44] $2,840 maintenance
[8:47] $158 and insurance to use an estimate
[8:51] 9379 would I spend over two years so
[8:53] let's just say I spent about
[8:56] $2,250 196 adding all that up that
[8:59] brings me to a total cost of
[9:02] $5,245 sounds like a lot let's go ahead
[9:06] and see how much I saved using math from
[9:08] before the amount of money I saved
[9:10] charging was
[9:14] $464 the amount of money I saved on
[9:16] maintenance so the cost for maintenance
[9:18] in a gas car we said was between 1920
[9:21] and
[9:22] 4,600 let's just say like 2,000 for a
[9:25] super conservative estimate I guess so
[9:27] 2,000 saved on maintenance and insurance
[9:29] I saved a total of like we said
[9:33] $1,349 4 which brings me to a total
[9:36] amount saved of
[9:39] $7,990 4 which if you ask me is quite a
[9:44] bit a chunk of change which my takea
[9:46] away from this is that driving a Tesla
[9:48] is not super cheap $5,000 still a quite
[9:50] a bit amount of money even over 52,000
[9:53] miles but driving a gas car can be a lot
[9:56] more expensive so there you have it all
[9:58] my cost over 52,000 Mi I posted my
[10:01] 50,000 Mi review video and I had people
[10:03] tell me despite all the stuff that I
[10:06] showed you that my costs were wrong so
[10:08] if you think I'm wrong I'm sorry but I I
[10:10] showed you how I got my numbers but I do
[10:12] love this car and I plan to drive it for
[10:14] a very very long time so I'll make
[10:16] another video just like this one once I
[10:18] hit 100,000 miles so stay tuned for that
[10:20] but between now and then we'll continue
[10:22] to take our car and a bunch of camping
[10:24] trips road trips and other fun
[10:25] adventures so if you want to see all
[10:27] that make sure you subscribe and and as
[10:29] always thanks for watching catch you in
[10:31] the next one