I purchased my blue Dual Motor Model 3 on June 30, 2019. 12.5 months and 13,118 miles later the only regret I have is that I wish I bought it sooner.
Like many, I was very initially very skeptical about Tesla and battery electric cars way back in 2018. My first concern was safety. The fact that Teslas don’t have an engine constantly igniting gasoline in directly in front of it’s passengers seems to make it a safer bet in any head on collision. Watch this guy walk away after a head on collision that could have done more damage to the driver with an engine in the front of the car:
When the Model 3 came out there was a report about changes during initial manufacturing, namely reducing spot welds, which made me question how the Model 3 would hold up in an accident. However considering the lack of an internal combustion engine, electric cars are much safer than old gasoline cars, so switching to the Tesla Model 3 was an easy decision. Isn’t it weird that we used to be comfortable about sitting on top of gallons of extremely volatile liquid gasoline at high speeds?
Another reason to switch to an electric car is the reduced impact to the environment. Some days I walk past thousands of idling cars sitting in traffic waiting to cross a bridge. I can see and feel the heat waves that all these gasoline burning passenger vehicles are creating. The air is filled with toxic chemical byproducts of this combustion. It really feels good to not continue to directly warm up the planet with my car.
Saving money when switching to an EV is a nice bonus. Electricity can be free – I’ve been able to charge at work for free in the pre corona virus days. It is nice not to have to change oil or even think about changing oil based on a mileage schedule. The car will need some tires in a few months. I expect them to last about 2 years based on my driving habits.
The Tesla Supercharging network is another reason to own a Tesla. I was able to take a road trip easily with the Supercharger network in place. It is so nice to not have to pull up to the smelly gas station repeatedly during vacation. So far no competitors have stepped up to challenge Tesla in this area.
The Tesla purchase process is so painless. Not having to deal with salesmen trying to squeeze every penny out of you takes a lot of stress and exhaustion out of buying a car.
Driving a Tesla after a lifetime spent with old gas cars is like jumping in to the future. The last gas car I will ever own was a 2018 Subaru WRX with a 6 speed manual. Sure it was fun for a year, but like Elon said, it’s like a horse and carriage compared to EVs. The technology needed to create awesome electric cars exists today. It doesn’t take long to realize that internal combustion vehicles are bad for the earth, extremely inefficient, slow, and unreliable because of the interdependency of thousands of moving parts. The Tesla engine regenerates electricity when a normal ICE car would need to use brakes and turn that hard earned energy created by burning gas and wasting it by converting speed into heat and brake dust. Many driving sessions don’t require using the brake pedal at all in a Tesla. My Model 3 completely changed the way it drove just after a few months of ownership. An over the air update introduced HOLD. So instead of constantly holding the car back with brakes, the Tesla just comes to a stop whenever there is no longer any accelerator input. It’s totally the opposite of an automatic ICE vehicle. This HOLD function inherently makes driving much safer since the car is always trying to stop instead of go.
After owning many cars from turboed Hondas to a Trailblazer SS and a 2JZ-GE turbo Lexus SC300, I have to say this Tesla Model 3 is no slouch. It’s not even the performance, it’s just a Dual Motor with acceleration boost but it’s still capable of an 11.81 quarter mile. If you had any doubts about owning a Tesla before, you shouldn’t anymore.
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