Tesla tax costing NYC drivers up to $1,000 extra to park their cars each month: sources

Tesla drivers are being slapped with eye-watering extra charges to park their cars in private garages across NYC with a “luxury” or “exotic” surcharges for certain models, sources told The Post.The biggest parking garage management companies in the Big Apple charge drivers hundreds of dollars for monthly parking — but those who drive luxury, electric or oversized cars are increasingly subject to surcharges that can cost them up to an additional $1,000 per month.And that doesn’t even include charging the batteries!Wynne Parking President Kyle Halperin told The Post that the surcharge was really about covering insurance costs and described it as part of “a risk analysis”.According to him, that’s why it is applied to some non-luxury cars, such as Teslas.“There’s an industry wide standard for multiple garage management companies where [applying the surcharge] is based on things that affect insurance such as the value and weight — Tesla batteries weigh more,” than ordinary car batteries, he said.“The luxury expense for a parking garage is focused on insurance costs and the amount of space that is required to protect a vehicle from any kind of significant or insignificant damage.“So if a parking garage is paying additional insurance because it regularly houses a car worth $500k, the threshold for insurance is greater than it is if insuring a $50k car.”While Teslas are marketed as non-luxury cars with prices starting at around $35,000 Halperin said it was the industry standard for parking garages to classify some models as “luxury” or “exotic” because, in part, their batteries make them “heavy”.Those who drive a Tesla Cybertruck – the best-selling electric pickup on the market – will be slapped with an additional $1000 per month surcharge because Wynne considers it to be an “exotic” car that “requires an exotic vehicle surcharge”.Wynne Parking charges Tesla drivers with the 3, X and Y models an additional $250 per m...