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.
How often do you need most of that range? Frankly, if you have an EV with a range of well over twice your commute, and you live in a place where you have regular access to even a regular wall socket, you can charge overnight, then, briefly assuming you’re a raging workaholic, you’ll never have to go to a place to add acutely usable range to your car ever again.
Besides, most EV’s have a battery that’ll drain about 75% over the course of two hours of motorway driving, and with current generation fast charging, it can recharge that range again in about ten or fifteen minutes. This builds in a ten or fifteen minute stop for stretching your legs, a wee and a cuppa, to top up on charge every two hours or so, which is actually recommended in general by many highway services for breaks anyway.
Assuming fast chargers are regularly available in your area, and having a plug socket near where you keep your car, daily driving electric, even today, is fine for 90% of us. And something that would be useful now would be to find a way to roll this out economically at places like apartment buildings.
(even better would be to not need a car in the first place, and to make it easier for people to ditch a car in favour of bicycles and transit, but that’s a debate for another day)
Considering their comment was a simple correction of the OP that was stating wrong facts, they’re not wrong. Your statement is not incorrect either, but rather a tangent.
Except I wasn’t incorrect. They are. Objectively speaking they are using anecdotal evidence (as they have literally stated) while my numbers literally come from actually testing.