I don't think this includes the convenience fee in having to use a supercharge station to recharge your car.

If you don't have the ability to charge at home (condo or apartment), the idea of waiting at some energy pump for 30 minutes every morning is the opposite of alluring.

If you don't even understand the basics of electric car ownership you should really do some reading. People who don't have at work charging or at home charging are not the market for electric cars. A few people do, but very few Tesla owners I've heard of actually have neither. If you're buying a $35,000+ car why are you living in an apartment instead of using that towards a down payment on a condo or a house?

Because people are bad with money. Drive through an apartment complex and then drive through a neighborhood of starter homes; I'll bet the former has nicer cars than the latter.

I've seen plenty of $35k+ cars in ghetto apartment housing. People seem to look at the monthly payment instead of the total cost of the car can never seem to get enough saved to buy a house.

I don't know which is the main buyer of higher end cars, but they shouldn't completely discount people who prefer to buy cars than save for houses.

> using that towards a down payment on a condo

As I stated, you will have trouble charging at a condo. In the bay area, most new development is condos, and I don't think buying one means you're bad with money.

Given that 30 minutes of supercharging will add over 200 miles of range to a Tesla, I doubt many people will need to do this every morning.

Still, 30 minutes is a sizable fraction of most people's free time in a given day. Especially compared to 5 minutes needed at a regular gas station.

Mmmm, it only takes 5 minutes if you happen to live at a gas station.