That’s cool! Didn’t work out quite as well for the guy I know, but as I understand it the route he was traveling wasn’t along a major enough roadway to find superchargers or whatever...he should have known better and just gotten 50mpg in his Prius for that one.

Ya gotta be a total imbecile to wait in that line at Costco to save $2 on your fill up. 

No. Driving a Tesla is... no, we are not even going there today. It’s not like a Lamborghini. A V12 wailing behind your head in a car that wants to murder you is nothing like a Tesla.

Does your Costco only have 3 pumps or something? I've never waited more than a couple of minutes at ours on a busy Saturday morning. 

A lot of people have to go to meetings in the next city, and can’t charge while in that meeting. And we can add: straight to picking up the kids from school and then off to some sports hobby after getting home with no time to quick-charge at that point either. It really shouldn’t be that hard to understand peoples’…

Have you ever driven a Lamborghini? Or owned any cool cars?

The comments on this trying to defend this by comparing this to lines at gas station are particularly comical. Seeing as how the only time that lines for gas are ever like this are in times of crisis or when some gas station gets the bright idea to undercut their competitor by some outrageous amount and everyone in…

This is an important point.  Who should be responsible for refueling centers?  Tesla did it their way, and that’s great.  But do we want to have maker-specific stations that are widespread or 3rd-party stations that have more economies of scale?  If we told, say, Ford drivers that they could only go to Ford-owned gas…

Exactly.  When I wait in line at Costco, I’m maybe in line for 10 minutes maximum.  And then I can fill up the car in less than a minute.

Yeah, I can’t imagine the hassle of planning a long trip in an EV in 2019, Tesla or otherwise. A friend of mine has a Prius and a Model 3, yet chose the Model 3 to take a long trip with his wife and two children recently. While we adults can rationalize charging stops on the road to some degree...children aren’t gonna…

Except that even at Costco, it takes a few minutes to go from 0 - 100%. These guys are waiting an hour for 3 cars to get to 80%

Government needs to step in to help rich people charge their cars? I mean, I get that our federal government already exists to massively help the rich, but I'm just surprised to see this offered as a seemingly honest suggestion.

Or then buy a real car or have a fleet of real cars, and only use your Tesla when it’s convenient to make an appearance.

No, you measure it in smug. Around five is light smuggage (as in “we are having light smuggage at Newport Superchargers today”), and a dozen is a smuggle. Tesla factory parking lots can have more than 50 Teslas, or a smugton.

Ran out of coal.

Friend of mine has a Model 3. He’s an example of “wanting is better than having”. He doesn’t like it as much as he thought he would.

Bro if you own a Tesla without a vanity plate that rivals the d-bag level of any coal roller are you even really singlehandedly saving the planet?

Edit: this sounds way too mean.

People rarely like admitting that they made a mistake. They like admitting it even less when it means they wasted money. They like it even less than that when the amount of money they wasted is obvious, incredibly conspicuous and a status symbol.

Oh the irony of the Tesla owner smugness.