![]() The updates can be bug fixes ( Tesla offers a bug bounty for anyone who finds a bug in its code), they can be feature adds, or they can be efficiency gains. Most of us are familiar with how Tesla provides over-the-air updates for its vehicles, in much the same way as Apple does for iPhones. In 2011 Marc Andreessen penned his now famous essay Why Software Is Eating The World in which he pointed out how software is taking over everything from book sales (Amazon), to direct marketing (Google), to everything from financial services, oil and gas, health and education, on and on, you get the idea.Īutomotive is no exception to this phenomenon (as Andreesen himself pointed out in his piece), but the extent of that change has gone beyond what he even imagined. And many of the big name brands we are familiar with today will go the way of Nokia, Kodak, and Blockbusters, if they don’t change completely as well. The world of automotive is changing, changing utterly. Substitute in your own local costs to see how much you would save by switching your car to an electric one (if you haven’t already!). ![]() Electric vehicles require far less maintenance than internal combustion engines. #ECAMM LIVE FOR MAC MANUAL#I didn’t keep a record of how much maintenance I paid for the annual maintenance for the Prius, but when I took delivery of the Leaf the first maintenance scheduled in the Maintenance Manual was at 30,000km. Of course, I plug the Leaf in to charge often during the day when the sun is shining so as to take advantage of the “free” electricity being generated by our solar panels, so the figure of €150 is much higher than I pay in reality.Īnd then there is the issue of maintenance. #ECAMM LIVE FOR MAC FULL#If we round that down to 6km to make the calculations easier (and to be a little conservative), then because our night rate electricity costs €0.09/kWh, that gives us a cost per km of €0.015 and a total of €150 for the full year’s 10,000km. The Leaf can drive 6.25km per kWh of energy in the battery. In 2018 I traded in the Prius for a Nissan Leaf 40kWh. I drove an average 10,000km (6,000 miles) a year so that cost me about €715 in petrol expenses alone (ignoring oil changes, maintenance, etc.).
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