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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking for Tesla 3 experiences..

We are considering a T3.. base model (RWD). Will be going from a regular sedan to the Tesla.

Questions:

- How long have you owned the car?
- How is the RWD in the winter/ice/snow?
- How much do you really save in terms of gas/maintenance?
- What maintenance have you done over the duration of your ownership? How often?  Is Tesla maintenance expensive (say for tire rotations)?
- Are long distance trips really possible?  Say DC to Florida or Chicago?
- Any cons?

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Owned ours since November 2019.  Have had no trouble in snow.
Basically no maintenance-there's some things that needed to be done at a year (tire rotation being one)Here's the list of the suggested maintenance.  All of it is normal car things.  https://www.tesla.com/support/car-maintenance  Nothing that needs Tesla to do it specifically.  
Tesla wanted to charge 400 if I remember correctly.  We LOLed and called our normal garage, and they did the work for a normal price.  Other than that, we had to add washer fluid.

The longest trip we used it for is to the Poconos from MD.  We charged once in each direction while stopped for food( fully charged before we were done), and because it was very cold had to charge while on the trip-there was a supercharger at the outlets five minutes from our hotel.  
Decided not to drive it on a trip to Williamsburg because there are no superchargers closer than Richmond area and we were going to be traveling around the area for several days in cold weather (the cold saps the battery massively).
You can map it out, and see where the chargers are along the route for a longer trip.  It'll even tell you how long they estimate you should charge for.  If you're travel style includes stopping every few hours for 15-20 minutes on a road trip, and the chargers are there, I think taking it on a trip to FL would work. We have kids, and pretty much have to get out of the car around that often on any trip, so I wouldn't mind it.  Some might.   But it has to be superchargers on the route-the others take way too long.

Mostly we charge at home.  My husband uses it for his commute and fairly routinely we take it about 1.5 hours away for trips.  Supercharger about 5 minutes from the people we are visiting so if we need to charge while there it is easy.  Since the 6 months of free supercharging expired we've paid somewhere between 50-100 dollars in charging fees.  We have a tesla charger installed in our garage.  MD had a rebate we qualified for, and I think there's a tax benefit that was just passed also?

Solar panels on the roof, and even with the tesla charging I haven't paid the electric company anything in years.

No cons for us.  [/quote]

Which model do you have?[/quote]

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