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I’ve owned my Model 3 as my only vehicle, my “daily driver,” for about eight years now.

In those eight years, my total maintenance and repair costs have been… just a minute… let me add all of this up… I want to give you a correct complete, and accurate number… let’s see… a total of exactly zero.

It has never failed to start.

It has never broken down on the roadside.

I consider it one of the most reliable things I own. How many people can say that of their car???

When I charge it, adding 150 miles costs about 2.50$. Adding 150 miles to a comparable ICE sedan would cost at least 25.00$. So my fuel costs are one-tenth.

Now, before some keyboard warrior hits that “comment” button thinking they’ve got me, I will acknowledge that, yes, my Tesla does periodically require new tires and occasionally windshield wiper blades. I consider those consumables. Every car requires them.

And I will also acknowledge one “maintenance” task required on my Tesla which I never had to do on any of my ICE cars: filling the windshield washer reservoir. My previous ICE cars all had windshield washer reservoirs, but I never had to fill one because the shop always topped it off as a courtesy every time the car went in for service or repair.