36 mpg still costs ~$195 a month for gas. Electricity costs ~$45 a month. Plus no oil changes, no air filters, and brake jobs every 150,000 miles or so.
It's easily 2 hours a day, closer to 3 a lot of days. That's one of the things you do so your kids can have a nice house with a nice yard and a pool in a neighborhood that isn't full of nigger and spic gangbangers, not to mention that even the private schools closer in are just filled with worthless third world trash.
A Civic costs ~$20k, the cheapest tesla starts at ~$40k. Both cars depreciate, but you're losing more with the higher MSRP.
Honda makes some of the most reliable engines in the world, Tesla is consistently ranking worst for reliability.
I'd take the Civic any day.
Teslas aren't the only electric cars. You can get electric cars from Chevy and Nissan with ~240 miles of range in the 20's. If you want the gas or electric in one car you can get a plug-in hybrid from Toyota or Honda. The Prius Prime comes in under $20,000 after tax incentives.
I owned a Civic and an Accord, and my sister owns an Odyssey. All three were atrocious cars. I would never own a Honda again after my experience with them, even if they cost half of what a Toyota cost. The Civic chewed through brake pads every 15,000 miles or so, and developed a problem with the steering after two years. The Accord started life off by stranding me at work when the battery just died at random on an 18-month old car. The A/C in all three Hondas is absolutely retarded in that when you idle (like at a stop light) the compressor stops and the air slowly gets warmer and more humid until you start driving again.
In the past twenty years I have owned 5 different Toyota cars and not a single one of them ever had any breakdown of any kind. Not once. Turn the key and the car starts every single time without ever being in the shop for anything except service and wear and tear for 400,000 cumulative miles.
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