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tesla recently announced plans for a model that'd cost somewhere around $40k. unfortunately, it'll be shown in 2015. which makes it a 2016 or 2017 model. sigh. guess i'm gonna have to wait. or drive more. the economics for an electric car don't make much sense when you drive less than 10k kilometers (10Mm heh) per year and pay $.32/kwh. cause even if electricity was free, we use $750 worth of gas per year. an electric car is $15k more than a gas car. so it'd take 20 years to break even. which is too long. sigh.