Renting a Tesla on Turo! (MMM Show Episode 12) 

Great video. Your son is becoming quite the videographer. I think the production on this is really good. 👍

My favorite blogger driving a car made by my favorite company going to one of my favorite places in the country? That's some badassity right there.

Great video and turo review. The music was superb, noticing it especially around the 6:30 mark. Kudos to your son.

You could buy the Model 3 for yourself and then rent it out part time on Turo. It would likely pay for itself in a reasonable amount of time, and you could still use it when you wanted.

The last time I went to Houston, I rented a GMC Yukon XL. It was so much fun to drive a gigantic SUV and have gigantic parking spaces and cheap fuel everywhere. Nothing like Europe.

Wow - your production level has gone out of the roof since video #1! Well done - both on the content (I'm now going to see if there are Tesla's in South Carolina - maybe not:) and on the structure and production of the video. Keep up the great work!

Very cool idea! Might try for my 13 year old son’s birthday experience. We went to Sand Dunes NP last year and loved it. Jealous you had water there when you visited.

Nice! We’re renting a Model 3 next weekend for our trip to Newport, RI. Can’t wait!

Just bought our slightly used Leaf (thx for the inspiration)..... I'm having a vision for episode 13.......garage storage and how to hang bikes :)

I’m a senior female planning a 74th birthday adventure. Your video sparked my imagination to choose a Tesla celebration including a beach city, two sons for drivers and my usual birthday self-gift. The first fun is get together family planning followed by amazing execution. Thanks, my brain is definitely firing....I’ll let you know how it goes. EARNED FUN!!!

For a minute there, I was worried you were going to give in and buy a Model 3! I’ve been fighting the urge myself since they announced the 35k version. I’m turning 40 next month and I’ve joked with my wife that a Model 3 would make the perfect mid-life crisis car, but I can’t justify the expense at this point in our FI journey. I get a government take-home car that I use to commute to work during the week, and we use our 2017 Chevy Volt for our weekend errands. So I may just rent one for my birthday and go to dinner with my wife, and not worry about making a purchase that I may regret someday.

Production quality continues to improve, great content too!

Great video as always! Your son's video editing and audio production skills are getting good!

I'm convinced I should buy a Tesla and rent it out on Turo.

Well done and looks like an awesome trip! I think it'd be cool to go camping with such a car. I use a similar service called SnappCar here in the Netherlands, where I both rent my car out, and occasionally rent someting electric to see if the new models have improved... a perfect antidote as everytime I feel silly for driving around a car that is the monetary equivalent to a tiny house. I actually really like the social part of renting out my car. People that rent and don't have a car themselves usually have interesting opinions. I have a few regulars that I see time to time and it's fun to chat for a bit. They show me how to appreciate features of my car that I long ago adapted to and don't at all notice anymore. Renting out my car so far hasn't been lucrative beyond paying for annual taxes and insurance (about 1k euro), it certainly won't cover the depreciation, which still surprises me how steep the decline is even if the car is over 10 years old. The cost of having it parked outside for days at a time. Luckily the repair bill have been minimal so far. And yeah there have been a few renter dings, but with the clear coat failing, I'm long beyond bothered. If only I'd get my hands on the renting statistics collected by the rental service so I can choose my next used car based on maximum renting potential.

The music and editing were the best yet! Great job guys! I especially liked the intro. Looks like you had a lot of fun, and all at approximately 1/1000th of the cost of buying the thing. :) This would be great for someone who always wanted to drive an extremely expensive car like a Ferrari. Do it for a day, ideally on a track.

Have a great day!!Love your stuff!

Big reader of the blog, but didn't know there was a youtube channel til now. Production quality looking good!

Entertaining and informative video! Thanks!

Thank you for all you do MMM. I hope you get around to making another video soon. I do exactly what you recommend with my boat but I do it even cheaper. I borrow a family members truck when I need to tow my boat and drive a small compact car daily. Maybe you could do a long term ownership review of the Leaf?

MMM, just buy yourself a Tesla....it’s ok. 🤗😅🧡🧡🧡🔥🔥🔥🔥

Pete’s videos always make my day! PLEASE MAKE MORE!!! They are always inspiring, and well edited.

I took a 2012 model S on a 2-3 hour road trip with my family, thinking it would cause me to want one even worse. Although it was the best driving experience I’ve ever had, and I was zooming at 85mph of silence, it scratched my itch and made me realize I didn’t want one all that bad. I was constantly worried about door dings, locking it at night, parking under cover, etc. I’ll take my 2011 Leaf simplicity for now!

You sir just got a happy subscriber that is in pursuit to live a happy life.

Good video! Hawaii Turo

Let's all do our best to reduce the number of miles driven 💪

Just a little info: You can stabalize your footage quite well with Davinci Resolve. The basic software has these functions and costs nothing.

You sound as cool as the voice I imagine you had from your blog

The alternate is true. If you really want one, buy it and rent it on Turo and only use it when it's not rented out.

Do you need it? Or do you want it? If you want it, I think turo is the route to go. Your logic makes total sense, but buying a tesla is more fun. This is the internal conflict I have inside me everyday 🤯

Must have been 4pm rain in CA

I bought a Chevorlet Bolt, the poor man's Tesla 3. I love driving this electric car.

If you don't wanna have to worry about renting a truck and going through the hassle. You can always buy an old truck for a cheap price.

You are not allowed to tow per Turo’s policy. I tried to last weekend for my boat and found out they have a strict policy against towing.

MMM and 2L&L, apologies if I have missed it in another place, but what camera are you using? Those visuals are sweet!

This Lizard music is dooooooope ✊

Looks like a blast! What a great idea. On the other hand, if you do buy one, why not rent it out most of the time? I bet that’s a great way to make that payment and still have that car for those occasional trips.

Great video Pete because you challenge viewers more deeply consider such a big purchase. Would have liked to have heard more about your thoughts/opinions/experiences on the actual Tesla experience as compared to ICE cars. Maybe another video...?

You should take a Rivian electric pickup for a spin when they're on the market.

MMM you need to upload more consistently

As soon as I take delivery of my Model Y, I will rent my Model 3 on Turo.

I can feel the heavy influence of a 13 year old on the music editing. Still, he did a decent job!

I had no idea about this! Thanks! What about insurance with Turo?

Buy it rent it on Turo. Use it when you want; pays for itself or close to it. So go for it!

You should upload more videos. It's been a while. You have a great opportunity to build out a community on RU-vid.

What is the Turo code? I loved this video, you gained a new subscription from me friend.

Where are you? I haven't see any videos and now I am wondering what happened.

I thought the video was going to be that you bought a model 3 and decided to help pay for it by renting it on turo. I bet you could offset the cost quite a bit if you did that. Especially given that you don’t have any Tesla’s available in Longmont.

Renting from Turo requires an insurance to be taken separately. neither my insurance with my personal car works or the insurance provided by my credit card would work. So, make sure you take insurance from Turo whenever you rent a car.

Doing anymore vids?

$0 at a public charger?

Hi MMM Why r u not uploading new posts on ur blog. . .. Been waiting since a long time

What happened to the Leaf?

You figured it out renting is less

MMM, can you answer the following questions: 1) If you want to retire early, should you invest in tax advantaged accounts (e.g., Roth IRA/traditional IRA & Roth 401k/traditional 401k) or a regular brokerage account? 2) Also, can you answer how you access money in tax advantaged accounts before the retirement age without getting penalized? 3) Lastly, do you prefer Roth 401k/IRA, or traditional 401k/IRA? Please give this comment a thumbs up, so MMM will answer these questions.

I wonder whether it's worth buying (more expensive cars) for the savings: you get tax breaks with a business vehicle, usually, the more you spend the less repairs you'll have to undergo in the future (you get what you pay for), buying an electric car in many countries is a way to save on gas (1/4 of the cost in many cases). None of this even mentioned in this video..

You guys should do a collaboration with Ryan Van Duzer.

👍👍👍.

Hey MMM! I have I very important question(for me) that you could make a video about: A lot of young people(like me) have some savings these days sitting in their bank account, being eaten by the inflation. We are afraid to invest at this moment in the stock market, as all the big names (Buffet) are telling us that it is being over evaluated and it is gonna drop 50% like in 2009. The question is: What should I(we) do with my money now? Invest it in stock indexes like you did and hope that the bear will not come and eat 50% of my savings, or keep them in the bank account, to let the inflation eat 20% in 6 years? Or maybe to invest in bonds(like Buffet in times like this - I may be mistaken here)? Can you do a study here and compare the options? You can maybe model this year like 2007, when SP 500 was 1500 and see what would happen, in different scenarios. Thanks!

beautiful place! can someone tell me how does the insurance works if I rent my car out in Turo?

I thought you were going to seize the opportunity to score this video with some of your own homemade techno tunes. Nice editing. Thanks for including the metrics of recharging. Very well done. Keep 'em coming. Thanks again for sharing.

The first and only time we used Turo was to rent a Model S on a family vacation to California. Worst thing was getting pulled over for expired tags, being told that I had to sign the ticket and provide it to the owner. Oh NO! I had to pay the ticket myself from half way across the country. The owner did reimburse me with a little extra for my troubles but not a great first time experience. But I did learn that I love my Cadillac ELR so much more when it comes to style.

If you buy one, you can be Tesla Buddies with Jesse Meacham

Get a cybertruck instead. :)

Don't buy a Tesla! Yet. Wait 3 years for the used Model 3 market when you'll be able to pick one up in the mid or upper 20s. - A happy pre-owned Model S owner

Can someone please, please help me? I am trying to log into mr. Money Mustache forum and I cannot answer these questions. It says complete the sentence : Financial Freedom through...... I tried frugality and it did not work. Does anyone know the answer? The other question is the Practical benefits of outrageous.....? Is it optimism? Thank you in advance for your help.

I turo my brand new 2018 BMW X1 M edition! I know, I know, what the eff kinda manic would do that? TLDR: Ask what the MONEY FACTOR is when negotiating with a car dealership. Well after 9 hours of tag team negotiating at the dealership with my now ex-bf and 2.5 yrs of a doomed relationship later, I realize that his ultra consumer LS had some not super good consequences / influences on me. Anywho! I started turo'ing my leased bimmer right away, as I still owned my '94 Mazda Miata (5 sp 1.8L sigh* so rare, miss that car; almost side-tracked into how I negotiated down to $4k with a cashier's check $500 under asking). There were plans to teach his teen daughter to drive a manual, but alas relationships built on shattered all-merican dreams, come crumbling down in a jaded stinky poo. Regardless, turo'd all the time with exceptions of one weekend a month to do something fun in or out of town. Sold the NA Miata, made $75. And after the lease payment, gas, and insurance, I "earned" $100/month turo'ing the bimmer; I'm probably forgetting other hidden-ish costs, whatev. After the relationship transitioned, I bought my first house 3.8 miles from my work. I wanna try biking everywhere (I thank you!) and resume turo'ing my bimmer, post-covidemic if possible, until the lease is up. Sell it back to the dealership and that which to biking for a year, see if I like it. In hopeful near future, I'd have to build my turo reputation from scratch as my middle man became a falling out with a friend. Yadda yadda yadda, moral of the story: Ask what the MONEY FACTOR is when negotiating with a car dealership. You are so very welcome! Also what kind of loan program or process, would you recommend for balance transfers to pay down debt interest free with a 'Needs Work' credit score? Asking for a friend who suffered a head injury that fueled a quarter life semi-crisis, pobresita. Love this turo idea tho! Step in the right direction to economic living. Your presence is a gift to all! Keep on, keeping on! Thank you!

insta sub :) came here from Lacey Filipich at TEDxUWA

Turo is awesome!

What happened to the scion?

I was in Knoxville for work during the dates of your trip.

You have a problem all right you did not invest in crypto currencies and told everyone else not to back in 2018 said it was like beanie babies well you're still wrong.....

Middle aged lol

Wow searching on turo in Toronto area comes up with very few electric cars available. Illustrates that these are not ready for prime time

Autopilot is a bad term that Tesla uses. It encourages people to think they can keep their hands off the steering wheel, even sleep or text. People have died as a result. More about it in this article: www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-studies-highlight-driver-confusion-about-automated-systems

Wow, I can't even believe you used money to rent one of those cars. The normal MMM calculator driven analysis would tell us what a poor choice one of these fancy pants cars is. Lol.