Hello and welcome to the Tuesday August 29th 2017 edition of Tesla Daily on

official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we are talking about my opinion.

As you may know, I am pre-recording this episode on Sunday.

Today's gonna be a little bit of a unique episode,

and I'm just gonna kind of talk about some of my thoughts on the model three and

Specifically the long-range version. I think that this is something that people realize but it hasn't really been discussed a lot

Which is really just the value that Tesla is able to provide in terms of range per

dollar with the Tesla Model 3 long-range addition. As a reminder the long-range

addition starts at $44,000 and has a range of 310 miles.

So taking 44,000 dividing by 310, that works out to a cost per mile of $142. The standard range version starts of course at $35,000 with a

220 mile range and that's $159 per mile. This is actually right in line with the

Chevy Bolt which has 238 miles of range for a price of $37,500,

which works out to $157 per mile.

However, aside from the bolt, there's nothing really else in the same ballpark.

The Nissan Leaf would be the next closest, I think, at a base price of $30,000 for a 107-mile

EPA range. That works out to a dollar per mile cost of $280. The next gen leaf, and this is my

speculation, but I believe that the next gen leaf is supposed to start at $35,000 and is expected to have an EPA range of around 160 miles, which will work out to $2018 per mile.

So there's definitely a huge gap there between what the model three is offering and what the Nissan

Leaf is offering. The other important distinction as a reminder is I do not view the Chevy Bolt or the Nissan Leaf to be in the same class as a Tesla Model 3.

I don't think if they were, they would not be viewed as competitors at all if they didn't both have electric power trains.

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