After 26,000 miles, here's how much I've spent charging the Tesla Model 3 vs how much I would've spent if I drove my old gasoline car. Buying a Model 3? Use my referral link and get 1,000 miles of FREE supercharging: https://ts.la/mike47241

I've been driving the #TeslaModel3 for a little over a year now and I've clocked over 26,000 miles on it. I want to show you guys what I've spent in total charging the #Model3 inthe past year and compared that to the cost of getting gas if I were driving a gasoline car in the past year.

So there are 2 primary ways I charge my Model 3, I mainly charge at home and occasionally I use the Tesla superchargers. To charge at home I use the charging cable that came withthe Tesla Model 3. It plugs directly into a typical 120-volt outlet and you just plug the other end into the car to charge. So to figure out how much I've spent charging at home,the Model 3 conveniently provides the total kilowatt hour it total that was used and I've used so far 6160 kilowatt hours. Looking at the cost of electricity where I live, I pay about 7.4 cents per kilowatt hour, so that's a total of $456 on charging.

However, that is assuming 100% charging efficiency. You see, some of the electricity is lost due to heat and powering some of the background processes such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi orturning on the fan to cool down the battery. Therefore, it's safe to say that you're only getting about an 80% charging efficiency, which bumps up the cost to $570 that I've spentin the past year charging at home. That's on average a $43 increase in my electricity bill every month which isn't too bad.

This way of charging is very slow. You get about 5 miles of range for every hour charged. But I find it okay, whenever I'm home I just plug in the car and it gets the charge that Ineed. You can always get the 240 volt outlet to charge much faster. The other way I charge is using the Tesla Superchargers. These are the super fast charging stations that Teslahas built. You can get up to 200 miles of range for only 15 minutes of charge. In the past year I've spent in total, $61 in super charging, which brings my total charging cost to $631 for the entire year.

Now, let's compare that to the cost of getting gas. So my previous car was a Toyota Celica which gets about 29 MPG in this city and 36 MPG on the highway. But traffic where I am, inAtlanta, is pretty bad. There's a lot of stop and go traffic, so I estimate that I probably get on average about 30 MPG. The gas price here is about $2.50 cents per gallon, whichmeans it would have cost me $2216 to travel the same distance in the past year.

However, keep in mind that gas cars require regular oil changes which doesn't apply to electric vehicles because they don't have an internal combustion engine. So that around $45per oil change every 5,000 miles, which means I would have had 5 oil changes in the past year. So that would be a cost of $225, bringing my total cost to $2441 dollars to keep thegas going going. That means the Model 3 saved me $1810 in the first year because charging is just so much cheaper than getting gas, and the savings will just keep on adding up since gasoline cars tend to cost more on maintenance over time.

So even though the Model 3 costs a little bit higher than your average car, the tax incentives, the low charging cost and maintenance cost, and all those perks really makes theModel 3 worth it in the long run. Alright so there you have it, the cost of charging my Model 3 for the entire year. Let me know in the comments below if you have any questionsabout the Model 3, if you want to buy a Model 3 please use this referral link below and we'll both get a thousand miles at free supercharging: https://ts.la/mike4724