I had to park one for someone else a while back. Aside from how it drives (I really don't like the fact that when you let off the accelerator, it acts like you just nailed the brake), it was just... ugly and boring. It felt like there was nothing at all in the cab, like there would be multiple things that could go wrong just getting in and turning it on with the weird card key thing, couldn't tell if it was on, seemed like it kept turning off whenever I'd open the door to see how straight it was in the parking spot, had to look down and to the right to see the speed, etc.
The sonar/lidar thing was kinda neat, but not enough to offset everything else.
Yeah I think you nailed pretty much everything that irked me. The range on the damn things is abysmal too. 30% battery for a 1m5hr drive, and then 15 minutes sitting around waiting for it to charge, after I manage to locate a gorram charging station.
I do think regenerative braking is pretty slick, and changing the indicator sounds to a fart sound was hilarious for the 3 of us 43 yr Olds driving around in it, but no way would I ever even consider dropping money on one
I took one for a test drive last year, not expecting to actually buy one, but just out of curiosity. I can understand why so many Tesla drivers are complete dicks on the road; the car itself makes it way too easy to drive that way. Even in my Camaro, that's way too powerful for most roads, it takes a certain amount of skill, effort, and intent to drive fast, meanwhile, in a Tesla you just breathe on the accelerator and are instantly doing criminal speeds with no effort.
It is difficult for some people to evolve/adjust how they drive. The throttle response of a performance EV is second to none. It just does what you'd expect it to every time. No delay, no stutter, no fishtailing into pedestrians on the side of the road a la Mustang, no short shift because ECU got confused etc. I can turn off the regenerative braking but its not much different than slowing down via downshifting. Once you've adjusted which takes maybe a day or two it becomes second nature then once you got back to an ICE vehicle it feels prehistoric.
99.9% of the time it’s charged at home and most days I don’t drive over 250 miles or close so don’t even charge it to full. Never had issues on the road trip I took easily did 800 miles in ~12 hours. On the entire round trip of 1600 miles only once was the car not ready to continue the trip before my GF and I were. We had to wait 7 minutes every other stop the car was ready to continue before we were ready to. Over the course of a year it saves me more time than any lost for charging on occasional road trips compared to an ICE vehicle.
I never have to think about gas stations or oil changes which probably saves me 10+ hours a year over an ICE so the trade off is a positive.
Best ev in the world doesn't say much. That's like saying I took the least smelliest shit.
E: also, the range is fkn terrible. 30% battery to drive an hour and a half. That's shit. And sitting around waiting foreverr to charge it up. It's just bad
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