Is it cheaper to fly or drive a Tesla from El Paso to Boston?
Don't buy the stress score? Switch it off and the numbers still stand.
Fly it. 2,381 mi is more road than this trip is worth.
El Paso to Boston is 2,381 mi by road — 35h 9m of driving and 13 Supercharger stops — against 7h 60m door to door by air. Flying is the better call: the flight costs $857 against $232 to drive, and it saves 27h 9m of travel. On the 0-100 stress scale the drive scores 100 and the flight 73.
Checking the route…
313 city pairs, run through the same math
Sometimes the car wins. Sometimes the plane does.
Real driving distances from Google, the same cost and stress model your trip gets. Blue lines are the ones where the Tesla won.
Car wins
227
Average $315 kept on those trips, in US dollars at fixed rates.
Plane wins
79
Long enough that the road stops making sense.
Too close to call
7
Either choice is defensible. Your call.
Biggest money wins
Where flying costs the most.
Just fly it
Long enough that the plane wins.
Closest calls
Within a rounding error either way.
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