I’m not sure what it is about humans that causes that behavior. I’m sure it’s some underlying genetic flaw. I find it equally irritating and arrogant when pro cirrus/Tesla people treat me like a backwards uneducated person just because I don’t like or want to own either item. Then they act like it’s their responsibility/job to tell me all about how if only I were willing to try it out I would love it.
It is a consumer product. Nothing more. Nothing less. This particular consumer doesn’t want either because they don’t meet my needs and budget. Everyone just needs to get over themselves.
Having been a "fanboy" of a few things in my life, I think I can tell you why: We've found a product we REALLY like, that has made our lives significantly better, and we want our friends and family to be as happy as we are. That's it. I own plenty of products that don't make me feel that way at all and/or are just average-to-good. But once in a great while, you come across something with a truly next-level user experience, and it makes you happy and works really well for you, and you want to share the joy. That's it.
If it truly doesn't meet your needs, I won't try to sell you on it - But if you're basing your opinion on the large amount of FUD and misinformation there is on the subject, I will do my best to at least tell you what it's really like. If it still doesn't, then cool. You do you, and I'll continue to enjoy it.
Fairly decent range for probably most folks needs. But for me that would take me to Albuquerque and then turn around to come home, but not enough range to run errands in town and return.
You live 150 miles from town?
In that case, then yeah, it's not for you unless there's a Supercharger at your grocery store. Maybe try a plug-in hybrid, or just skip the EV thing entirely. There are still plenty of edge cases that can't be addressed or aren't optimum, but those cases are getting fewer and fewer as time goes on.
Once recharge stations are as common as convenience stores it will make owning an electric car a little easier. But then it would probably cost 40 bucks for a recharge. That would take the cost to something similar to driving my diesel pickup.
FWIW, the most expensive recharges I've seen around here would run about $20 (for a Greenlots CHAdeMO/CCS charger). I stopped at a Supercharger with the Model 3 while I had it and added 80 miles of range for $1.76 in under 10 minutes.
Straw man. Nobody argued it was totally unacceptable. But it is a limitation. It’s pretending that being forced to stop for a long refuel is a positive that creates the argument. It’s not a positive. It’s acceptable to you, which is great, but it’s not a positive, it’s a negative. Period.
Which is far outweighed, for me, by the fact that I would never have to stand outside in the cold-@$$ Wisconsin winter pumping gas again, and I would save a lot of time by never having to visit a gas station.
Comparing to flying is not really useful, as it’s totally different, but I’ll give my own comparison. People accept that every plane has a trade off. Want to carry more, you’ll burn more fuel, there’s always a trade off. Pretending like there are no tradeoffs with EVs is putting your head in the sand.
Nobody's pretending there aren't any tradeoffs, merely that those tradeoffs are WELL worth it for most people.
So what happens to Tesla when the economy tanks and Musk's government subsidies dry up?
Ah, that good old OWT. First of all, Tesla paid back all their government loans, with interest, years ago. Also, if we go back to the last time the economy really tanked in 2008, the only two car manufacturers that DIDN'T go bankrupt were Ford, and
Tesla.
Second, Tesla has already hit the 200,000-car limit for the phase-out of the EV tax credit, but it looks like they have hit critical mass to continue with the big demand, by getting their cars out and having people experience them and talk about them like we're doing here, prompting more orders.
Now, it's going to be Tesla's competition that has an advantage, since only non-Tesla electric vehicles will get the tax credit. (GM will likely hit the limit before too long too.) IMO, that was a foolish way of crafting that policy - It should apply equally to all manufacturers on the same time frame, with the phase-out being triggered by the first one to hit 200K, because now it will be rewarding the manufacturers that dragged their feet and didn't do the R&D spending that the credit was trying to encourage. There are two different Republican-sponsored bills right now, one to extend the credit for a couple more years for everyone and then get rid of it, and another to just get rid of it entirely right now, and I hope one of them passes.
I don’t know if I’ve commented on this before but get rid of the stupid looking pc monitor! Embed it in the panel with a tilt feature and give me a HUD. Then I might buy it for $55K.
That was another pleasant surprise, actually. I agree with you that the placement of the screen looks utterly stupid when you see it in pictures - But none of those pictures were taken from the perspective of the driver's eyes. In reality, it doesn't look dumb at all, and is placed pretty much perfectly for both viewability and usability.