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Originally Posted by cockerpunk View Post
no its not. its much cheaper to road trip in a telsa than anything gas powered. its less than 20 dollars a day, and even a prius is going to be 40-50 a day. any kind of truck/SUV is going to be well over 100 a day.
Prius = 550+ mile range (that's over six-and-a-half hours at 80 mph!), then maybe ten minutes to fill the tank, take a leak, grab a snack and get back on the road.

Oh, and you failed to figure in the additional cost of a night in a hotel, a result of the well-recognized broken/slow/already-in-use-and-several-cars-ahead-of you-at-the charging station syndrome.

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