The Honda Civic is $15k cheaper than the A4. The Model 3 isn’t.

Regardless of what you think of Tesla, their cars, or their chief executive, you gotta give them credit for being the first automaker in a long time to beat the Germans in their own segment. For years nothing touched the 3-series, A4, and C-Class in the US. Efforts like the XE, Giulia, IS, Q50, etc were often capable…

We’ve put 10.5k miles on our Model 3 since March and we’re planning to go on a 2500 mile road trip next month. Our Tacoma has only been driven 900 miles since we got the Tesla.

I think it’s even less added time on a real road trip. I drive 320 miles to my summer house and before, we would take a 20 minute stop halfway there to get Chipotle. Coincidentally, there’s a Supercharger there, so now it’s a 30 minute stop and we eat while charging.

Bjørn is one of my favorite Youtubers to watch and probably the world’s foremost authority on owning and driving electric cars of all sorts in every weather condition imaginable.

I didn’t think anyone could make a worse-looking SUV rear than the Model X.

This is absolutely true. The Model 3's merits as just a car are often underappreciated. For $38,000, you get a car that costs less to run than anything else out there, but it’s also pretty much the cheapest RWD sports sedan you can buy.

Ok, real-world range tests have shown that the 4S can go 270 miles and the Turbo S can do 209.

Porsche Mission E promised specs: Over 300 mile range, 0-80% in 15 minutes, 350kW charging speed

Oh, I actually drive the real $35,000 one, the SR, that you have to go into the store to buy. I got it when the SR+ was $40,000 and only had 20 miles more range. I wouldn’t recommend buying it now since for only $2.5k more you get 43 more miles and autopilot.

Can we stop with this BS? Musk’s promises on self-driving are absurd and borderline fraudulent but I drive a $35k Model 3 every day and so do thousands of other people.

My current Tacoma. As soon as a reasonably-priced EV that can tow a medium-sized boat appears. It’s been nothing but trouble ($8.5k in repairs over 6 years) and I avoid driving it as much as possible because my Model 3 is so much nicer to drive.

Ah, Schrodinger’s conservative boomer argument: Millennials are spending all their money on useless college degrees and higher education is worthless propaganda, but if they expect to be paid a living wage they should go to school and study for a good job and not flip burgers!

How did they combine two cars that, separately, look nothing like AMC Pacers into one car that vaguely resembles an AMC Pacer???

ok

One of the reasons I love the Tesla Model 3 Performance: it has a really cool display with telemetry from different parts of the car, a g-meter and lap timer, as well as extensively customizable options about torque balance, stability control, throttle response, etc.

Counterpoint: the check-engine light is fucking great and we should never let go of it, even as we enter the EV age. It should be one of those amazing things that lives on long after its real-world counterpart dies.

Maybe a little, but an Xbox Series X consumes 210 watts of power at peak load. A Tesla heater maxes out at about 3,000 watts, and the motors in a Model S Plaid are rated for 760,000 watts.

Tesla sold more Model 3s than Volkswagen did last year. You can check my math, it’s true.

Guess I had Loeffler on my mind...