So at the current time, tesla charges 50p per kwh (for almost everyone charging at home will account for most, so supercharging probably only accounts for about 10% but we will look at this later).
How does this compare? in the UK fuel is currently 165p for diesel and 147p for petrol.
Now one needs to compare like for like – it is unreasonable to compare a tesla s with a fiat punto, these are not comparable cars. So We will do it car by car. Please note, as teslas are only every electric, I will be comparing them to their nearest petrol BMW competitor – BMW does have electric cars in competition – though generally these get lower miles per kwh.
As such, I have compared the 4 main tesla cars to their nearest equivalent BMW (fair warning lots of numbers below
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