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by TheBiv 3813 days ago
Aside from the Tesla lease being ~$1.37/hr (as analyst74 points out), you would never be paying that amount per hour because that assumes 100% utilization of the car and absolutely zero cost for the person/business who owns the Tesla (and also provides no margin for the owner).

The cost would be no where near that per hour amount once you factor in everything needed for someone or some business owning a Tesla.

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That's today, though. If Musk can actually get the model 3 down to $35k it should be cheaper.
But still, as the previous poster pointed out that rate is still zero overhead and zero profit.

Plus, if you did use that rate and could somehow achieve 24hr utilization, you'd presumably be putting on ~1000 miles per day on the car. At 365,000 miles per year, that's going to millions of miles during your "lease".

You'll probably go through quite a few batteries and quite a few cars during your "lease".