CEO of Tesla and acting President-elect Musk is going on a neo-Nazi binge endorsing far right candidates instead of properly running the companies he’s involved in such as Tesla.
In addition Tesla is considered one of the most unreliable car brands according to: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-placed-bottom-consumer-reports-reliability-rankings/
Moreover Tesla has the highest fatal accident rates of all car brands according to: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/
Also there are privacy implications with using a car that could in theory spy on you: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/massive-trove-of-tesla-files-contains-thousands-of-safety-complaints/
Now that more competent and establish brands are making EVs there’s no reason to buy a Tesla if you want an EV. I’m not here to recommend another brand, I’m just here to tell you that your next EV should be anything other than a Tesla.
BMW i3. Been driving a 2017 one for a few months and am very happy. Winter hits like a brick, though.
I had an i3. The inverter went and BMW wanted 11k (around 75% of resale value) to fix. Even an independent garage couldn’t fix it because BMw need to code the replacement part.
I’ll never buy BMW again.
BMWs always stay near the top of the list of most expensive cars to maintain
I know but before you could bring older ones to independent garages. That’s been stopped due to “signing” of replacement parts
Do you mean the battery performs worse? My Leaf does that, I’d say 20% decrease in range on a charge. I think this is a characteristic of lithium batteries. Maybe it will go away if and when we get solid state or capacitor batteries.
Yeah, Hard to argue with physics :)