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      04-13-2019, 12:09 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Darth One View Post
I never got why they insist on setting a $35k base price anyway. I’m the farthest thing from a Tesla fan, but even I have to admit that the car has enough performance and content to be a good value at a much higher price.
At a gas price of $3.00/gal, any EV needs to be at or below $35,000 to make a payback case. There are numerous fuel-efficient petrol-powered cars for $15,000 less that are just as good or better than the Model 3 for most of the western hemisphere's private transportation needs. $15,000 of gasoline at $3.00/gal. yields about 150,000 miles of driving at 30 MPG.

That's why the Chevy Bolt was also price-targeted at $35,000 (including the $7,500 tax rebate).
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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