For occasional use, that doesn't seem like it would be a problem?

It's still a chunk less than a ~180 mile train ticket.

Even cheaper than a flight and chump change compared to a private helicopter. Apples to oranges.

Somewhat cheaper than a personal jetpack.

You can fly in Europe for $20. Not all destinations, obviously.

> It's still a chunk less than a ~180 mile train ticket

Yes, after you've paid a premium for the vehicle. By the same logic is cheaper to take the bicycle, but we are not comparing apples to oranges.

I can go Manchester to London return tomorrow morning, 210 miles each way, change at Crewe, take about 3 hours each way, costs £36.30. £46.70 if I want to get there for 10am.

Petrol alone would cost about £65 in my car, parking another £20 at least, and it would be an hour slower each way.

In my country trains are very slow because the infrastructure wasn't properly maintained. So the train is only an option for very poor people and the homeless, with the latter not buying any tickets. Last time I used the train, it took 18 hours gfr a 700 km trip which we'd normally do in 11 hours by car. Nowadays it does 20+ hours.

Not very sympathetic of you; there are actually a lot of reasons why a train ticket won't work for many types of trips, but the biggest ones are that you need to carry more than one person, the train doesn't go where you need to go, or that it's quite inconvenient in that it doesn't leave or arrive when you need to.

The price was just given as a comparison.

A poorer person, who can't afford a car at all, has a £40 per-person advance-booked direct train as the optimum case. Their real cost is likely to be more with connections, or the time could be a lot more with a bus (£15-20) instead.

Is that high? It sounds pretty similar to California.

It looks like Tesla is charging $0.50 in California and 67p ($0.81) in the UK during peak times. That's a pretty big difference in charge (62% higher). Even the off-peak 54p is $0.66 and 32% higher.

A 57% charge on a Model Y Long Range would be 188 miles of range (US EPA estimate). UK petrol prices are £1.54/litre or $7.03/US gallon. Assuming a 30-MPG car, 188 miles would be $44. They paid $39.59 for that distance of electricity. Hybrids and plug-in hybrids will do a lot better than 30-MPG so the Superchargers aren't cheap compared to other available options. The average UK petrol vehicle gets over 35-MPG (6.7l/100km) so that would come in at $37.76 for the 188 mile range and cheaper than the Supercharger for an average petrol car, though it can be slightly hard to compare since different countries have slightly different fuel economy evaluations.

It is higher than California by a decent amount and home energy rates are high too. They're a lot cheaper than petrol, but at 22.8p ($0.277) per kWh, it's nearly double what I'm paying on the east coast, but it looks like California rates might be comparable.

It's not outrageous, but it is definitely higher than California and can mean that the Superchargers are more expensive than petrol stations.

Sources: https://electrek.co/2022/09/28/tesla-hikes-supercharger-pric..., https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/electric/tesla-supercharger/, https://www.iea.org/articles/fuel-economy-in-the-united-king..., https://powercompare.co.uk/electricity-prices/

If it's similar to California, it's high.