Teslas are extremely expensive to own. As the article says, collision repairs are extremely expensive, partially because of the design, partially because Tesla essentially fully controls the repair market. Also as mentioned in the article, depreciation is very high. I'm not fully sure why this is, but there is to some degree the same effect with luxury brands -- BMW, Mercedes, etc, where a lot of the signaling value is lost when the car is old, but the parts/maintanence are still extremely expensive.