Why electric vehicles? For all kinds of reasons, from financial to environmental. Jump to each section below to find out more. Saving you money Because they use electricity for all or part of their power, electric vehicles are less costly to run.

For all the energy required to propel a vehicle, not all of it makes it to the wheels. Some of it is lost to friction and heat. Vehicle inefficiency can be classified into two categories of losses: road-load and energy conversion. At Tesla, careful attention is given to both to achieve the maximum range.

How green are electric cars? To fully understand the true environmental impact of electric cars, one has to examine the 'generation-to-wheel' CO2 emission cycle. Generation-to-wheel emission is zero if the electricity used to charge the car originates only from renewable energy such as wind.