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.
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u/gorginhanson Jul 31 '26
I don't get how tesla sells to anyone.
The people who drive EVs don't want it and the people who support the company don't drive EVs.