We’ve known for years that the owner is a lying, creepy, out of touch dipshit and that it’s a very flawed car and the company will cut costs to save money on safety items, every time.
Electric vehicles with drive assist are awesome and are the future, but there are alternatives, especially if you have money, which a lot of Tesla customers do. And they’re not particularly well built; how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now? And now we’ve seen how Elaine runs their companies, why the hell would anybody put their trust in their products?
If you’ve bought a Tesla in the last five or so years, you’re a damn goober in my eyes. That’s my hot take, prepared for being called poor and other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don’t matter. You are the hardcore, foaming at the mouth Segway fan from the 2000s, have at me lol.
Update: The teary eyed, sweaty fingered responses to this are predictably hilarious. I’ve been called a guy that eats 4 pizzas a week in another old thread because of this, a cunt, a tool, a douche, a couple people spent their energy to tell me they don’t understand me spending my energy posting this, some people are telling me something about Tesla or Elaine living in my head rent free. All genuinely pathetic responses, so GG lol. Cheers.
Counterpoint: Anyone who bought a combustion engine car in the past few years is a tool.
See how that works?
I mean, those can both be true. You can buy an electric car without buying a Tesla.
On the other hand, someone buying a used minivan because it’s what they can afford should not be tarred with the same brush as someone buying a brand new Tesla because they’re an Elon Musk fanboy.
A lot of people bought their teslas before Elon started flipping out. Tesla has also been lowering prices in many markets recently. I’m not going to razz someone for buying a decently priced electric car with a good range. Hopefully Elon gets kicked off the board at some point so the people that actually do the work at Tesla can get back to business.
Also, for those of us who live in cities and have street parking only, not having a reliable place to charge is kind of a deal breaker. I’d love a cheap reliable EV. I think it’s an absolute shame, and a missed opportunity that the new Prius wasn’t an EV, but even if it were I don’t think I could buy one without having somewhere to charge it.
Also, for those of us who live in cities and have street parking only, not having a reliable place to charge is kind of a deal breaker. I’d love a cheap reliable EV. I think it’s an absolute shame, and a missed opportunity that the new Prius wasn’t an EV, but even if it were I don’t think I could buy one without having somewhere to charge it.
I bought a new car a few months ago and really, really wanted to buy an EV. Problem is, I’m going to retire in a little over a year and told my wife she could pick where we move to. I don’t know where that’s going to be, or what the infrastructure in the area will be like. Also it’s very likely we’ll be taking a lot of driving trips, and reports from my friends who have EVs about cross country trips seem annoying to me - having to plan around where chargers are.
I ended up getting a Hyundai sonata hybrid, and I’m very happy with it. It’s a good-sized sedan, but I get between 40 and 50 MPG, which is more than double was I was getting in my prior car. I’m pretty sure my next car (my wife’s next car, really) will be an EV assuming we move before we buy it.
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The counterpoint to that is that ICE cars start at a much lower price point than EVs. If you bought an expensive ICE car, I’d say your counterpoint is basically just correct (with exception for specific cases, like if the fast charger network where you live isn’t great and you regularly drive such long trips that you need a fast charger). Choosing to buy an ICE vehicle when EVs are a viable option is a dick move.