TESLA vs GAS: TRUE Costs After 50k Miles

[00:00] my longrange model 3 has hit 50,000

[00:03] miles in a little over 2 years I'm going

[00:05] to go through all the costs which

[00:07] include charging maintenance and

[00:09] insurance and compared them to what an

[00:11] average gas car would have cost me over

[00:13] those miles I did a whole 50,000 Mi

[00:15] review which included cost and a bunch

[00:17] of other things that's on my channel but

[00:19] in this video I'm just talking about the

[00:21] costs so let's go ahead and talk about

[00:23] my main expense first which has been

[00:25] charging and technically I'm just a hair

[00:27] over 52,000 Mi you can see my total

[00:30] spent charging over the life of my car

[00:33] in 2022 was

[00:35] $689 in 2023 was

[00:38] $1,679 and in 2024 so far it's been

[00:42] $472 and that all adds up to a total

[00:45] charging cost of

[00:47] $2,840 and the app is pretty cool

[00:49] because it actually shows you how much

[00:51] you spent at home versus at

[00:53] superchargers so at home over that time

[00:55] in 2022 I spent

[00:58] $276 in 202 three I spent $718 and so

[01:02] far in 2024 at home I spent $341 for a

[01:07] total at home charging cost of

[01:10] $1,335 and on the other hand

[01:12] supercharging in 2022 I spent $413 and

[01:15] 2023 I spent $961 and so far in 2024 I

[01:20] spent $131 for a grand supercharging

[01:23] cost total of

[01:26] $1,505 which I actually found kind of

[01:28] interesting because we charge at home

[01:30] pretty much all the time except when we

[01:32] go on road trips which kind of makes

[01:34] sense because on road trips although

[01:36] we're only gone for a weekend or a week

[01:38] or two at most we do rack up a lot of

[01:41] miles and superchargers are quite a bit

[01:43] more expensive than at home charging so

[01:46] just keep in mind if you're somebody who

[01:47] doesn't road trip as much as we do your

[01:50] cost for charging can be a lot less than

[01:52] what ours is but anyways

[01:54] $2,840 to go a little over 52,000 Mi may

[01:58] or may not sound like a lot so let's see

[02:01] what it would have cost us if we were in

[02:02] a gas car and what's cool about the

[02:04] Tesla app is that when calculating these

[02:06] savings it takes into account the

[02:08] average gas prices in your state and I

[02:11] think gas is a little more expensive

[02:13] here in Nevada so anyways 2022 like I

[02:15] said I spent $689 charging gas would

[02:19] have cost me

[02:21] $1,771 so I saved a total of

[02:24] $1,082 that year in 2023 I spent $1,679

[02:29] gas would have cost me

[02:31] $4,240 so that year I saved

[02:36] $2,565 and this year so far like I said

[02:39] I spent $472 charging gas would have

[02:42] cost me

[02:44] $1,474 and this year I have saved

[02:47] $102 so far so adding it all up like I

[02:50] said I spent

[02:51] $2,840 charging gas over the last 52,000

[02:55] mil would have cost me somewhere around

[02:58] 7,29 $6 so in total by not having to get

[03:03] gas I have saved

[03:07] $464 which is a pretty good chunk of

[03:09] change and that's only for charging

[03:11] let's go ahead and talk about

[03:12] maintenance next and spoiler alert this

[03:15] will be a short section because I have

[03:17] not done much to my car because I

[03:19] haven't had to maintenance wise the

[03:20] things I've done so far I've put in air

[03:23] filters I've put air in my tires I've

[03:25] done tire rotations three times and I

[03:28] bought a gallon of windshield wash fluid

[03:31] and that's it the air filters I

[03:33] installed myself and listen I'm not very

[03:35] handy so if I can do it you can

[03:37] definitely do it I bought these air

[03:38] filters from Amazon from a company

[03:40] called the basor they're very easy to

[03:42] put in they kit comes with everything

[03:43] that you need I'll leave a link down

[03:45] below if you're interested and these

[03:47] cost me $30 I have put air in my tires a

[03:50] few times it doesn't cost me anything

[03:52] but it is maintenance and something that

[03:54] I can do myself I've also rotated and

[03:57] balanced my tires three times I think

[04:00] Tesla recommends specifically every

[04:03] 6,250 miles to rotate your tires so

[04:06] maybe over the last 52,000 miles I

[04:08] should have done it more often but I've

[04:10] done it three times so far for a total

[04:12] of $40 each which adds up to a total of

[04:16] $120 by balancing and rotating my tires

[04:19] and yes I did have to buy a gallon of

[04:21] windshield washer fluid even living here

[04:23] in Vegas although it was not from Vegas

[04:26] it was from our cross country road trip

[04:28] we got stuck in Colorado in a snowstorm

[04:31] so I went through a ton of the

[04:32] windshield washer fluids I had to refill

[04:34] it I sat at a local gas station there

[04:36] and that cost us a total of $8 and

[04:39] technically I had this maintenance as

[04:41] well this literally happened the morning

[04:44] after I got my car I had 17 freaking

[04:46] miles on the odometer and while it

[04:49] sucked it was 100% the other driver's

[04:51] fault obviously so this actually didn't

[04:53] cost me anything except for some severe

[04:55] heartbreak for a while so between the

[04:57] air filters rotating my tires and the

[04:59] windshield washer fluid maintenance has

[05:02] cost me a total of

[05:04] $158 and you may notice that I didn't

[05:06] include tires and well that's because

[05:09] I'm still on the original tires people

[05:11] say that Tesla tires tend to wear much

[05:13] quickly but at 52,000 Mi mine are still

[05:16] looking pretty good and I do have the

[05:18] acceleration boost and while I do enjoy

[05:20] that from time to time I generally don't

[05:22] drive like a maniac so maybe that's

[05:24] helped preserve the life of the tires so

[05:26] my maintenance cost is $158 which is

[05:28] super low but how much would I have

[05:30] spent if I was driving a gas car so

[05:32] obviously I couldn't find exact stats of

[05:35] how much maintenance costs for 50,000 mi

[05:37] in the gas car so I asked chat GPT after

[05:40] 52,000 Mi on a typical gasoline car how

[05:43] much would a person spend on average in

[05:45] maintenance costs and it told me the

[05:47] first 50,000 mi in a gas car includes

[05:50] these things and cost somewhere between

[05:53] 1,920 and

[05:55] $4,600 so how much have I saved well

[05:58] pick whatever number you want between

[05:59] 1920 and 4,600 and subtract 158 and

[06:04] that's about how much I saved which is a

[06:06] lot now let's talk about insurance and I

[06:08] do have Tesla insurance and to be honest

[06:11] I don't recommend Tesla Insurance when

[06:13] something happens it is impossible to

[06:15] get a hold of an adjuster or anybody at

[06:17] the Tesla insurance company but they are

[06:20] the cheapest for Teslas at least by a

[06:22] pretty good amount compared to other

[06:24] companies I've gotten quotes from so

[06:25] Tesla Insurance monitors your driving

[06:27] habits it gives you a safety score

[06:29] depending on how safe you drive and then

[06:31] it gives you a rate based on your safety

[06:33] score and I think I saw somewhere a

[06:35] safety score of 90 is average but my

[06:38] fiance and I drive normal I would say

[06:41] and we have no issue getting in the high

[06:43] 90s for our safy score so I feel like 90

[06:45] is not hard to do but I just wanted to

[06:46] clarify that because based on our safety

[06:48] score our insurance premium does go up

[06:51] or down a few dollars a month depending

[06:53] on our score that month and also I do

[06:55] have pretty decent insurance coverage

[06:57] much more than the minimum so keep that

[06:59] in mind so anyway my upcoming premium

[07:01] for this month here in October is

[07:05] $93.7 and that's based off a safety

[07:07] score of 99 and like I said it does go

[07:09] up or down a few dollars month per month

[07:12] but let's use this number and compare

[07:14] insurance premiums to a gas car so again

[07:16] I asked chat GPT what does an average

[07:19] driver pay per month for car insurance

[07:21] and an average gas car it gave me

[07:24] somewhere between 125 and 175 so we'll

[07:26] use 150 just for an estimate so doing

[07:29] some quick math let's do 150 minus what

[07:31] I pay $

[07:33] 9379 equals $

[07:36] 5621 which is about how much I'm saving

[07:39] per month by using Tesla insurance and

[07:41] like I said I've had my car for a little

[07:42] over two years so if we take that number

[07:45] that I'm saving per month at 5621 and

[07:47] take it over two years I saved

[07:52] $1,349 and4 cents on car insurance over

[07:55] 2 years and I know some people actually

[07:57] say that Teslas are more expensive to

[07:59] ensure but most Tesla owners I talk to

[08:01] are actually saving money on their car

[08:04] insurance especially those who also have

[08:06] Tesla insurance and yes again even with

[08:08] that much savings we still wouldn't

[08:10] recommend Tesla Insurance the model 3

[08:13] collision went okay but we got an

[08:14] accident in our model y back in February

[08:17] and it is now October we are still

[08:19] waiting for our deductible because they

[08:21] guy didn't have insurance but it's long

[08:23] story but things just move super super

[08:26] slow with Tesla insurance so let's go

[08:28] ahead and wrap up all up what you've

[08:30] been waiting for how much I've spent in

[08:32] total versus how much I have saved in

[08:34] total so my total cost including

[08:36] charging maintenance and insurance total

[08:39] charging cost at home and supercharging

[08:41] combined

[08:44] $2,840 maintenance

[08:47] $158 and insurance to use an estimate

[08:51] 9379 would I spend over two years so

[08:53] let's just say I spent about

[08:56] $2,250 196 adding all that up that

[08:59] brings me to a total cost of

[09:02] $5,245 sounds like a lot let's go ahead

[09:06] and see how much I saved using math from

[09:08] before the amount of money I saved

[09:10] charging was

[09:14] $464 the amount of money I saved on

[09:16] maintenance so the cost for maintenance

[09:18] in a gas car we said was between 1920

[09:21] and

[09:22] 4,600 let's just say like 2,000 for a

[09:25] super conservative estimate I guess so

[09:27] 2,000 saved on maintenance and insurance

[09:29] I saved a total of like we said

[09:33] $1,349 4 which brings me to a total

[09:36] amount saved of

[09:39] $7,990 4 which if you ask me is quite a

[09:44] bit a chunk of change which my takea

[09:46] away from this is that driving a Tesla

[09:48] is not super cheap $5,000 still a quite

[09:50] a bit amount of money even over 52,000

[09:53] miles but driving a gas car can be a lot

[09:56] more expensive so there you have it all

[09:58] 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