My rooftop solar panels was one of the best things I’ve done and since the new year till today, I’ve generated enough power to cover what my home used last year in electricity. 😀 We already use less than the average Canadian house, last year our energy usage was 4.84MW and look at where I’m at. 😀
I’m really happy that I’m helping to lower my carbon footprint by producing clean energy, I still have two gasoline vehicles but that’ll change soon and other than going to the range, we try and conserve as much as we can.
Dear Mr Sun,
I recently stumbled across your blog while doing online searches. You have an amazing site, so many diverse interests 🙂
I was wondering if you have done any research into the life expectancy of your Tesla 3 batteries and what sort of warranty Tesla will offer to cover this vital but expensive component of your EV. I mainly use public transportation but as of late I was beginning to explore buying an EV in order to ease my weekend trips.
Please keep up your good work, Mother Earth is suffering enough and we need more people like you to lead the way to save our environment. I would be interested to hear what else you have been doing to preserve our fragile ecosystem.
Hi there.
Thank you for the kind words!
I’ve been reading what Model S owners have been saying about their batteries and it seems like the they lose between 3-5% capacity per year (depending on use of course) and assuming that there isn’t some sort of catastrophic failure, I’ll probably buy a battery replacement when necessary. Tesla offers a battery replacement service for the higher end model Model S (~$10-12k depending on capacity) and I suspect they will offer a similar service for their mainstream Model 3 sometime down the line.
I’m just happy to see EVs becoming more mainstream and the one thing I love about Tesla is that they’re pushing the rest of the manufacturers to up their game so to say, till recently the Model 3 specifications beat everything in its class by range and now if BMW, Chevy, Nissan, etc want to stay competitive they’ll need to match or even do better than the Model 3’s performance.
I’m fortunate to live in Toronto, we have a pretty good (though underfunded) public transportation system and it meets probably 90% of my daily needs as well. Climate change is the biggest issue facing humanity and I want Brandon to live in a world where his generation doesn’t have to worry (or curse previous generations) about the environment.
Thanks again!