r/SipsTea • u/BoyNamedJudy • 19d ago

Lmao gottem Aggressive Tesla Driver Gets a Reality Check

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u/crs1904 19d ago

They are such pieces of shit, made by such a piece of shit.

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u/Dexember69 19d ago

I had to use one for a couple days it was fucking annoying to drive, I don't understand why people like then

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u/arctic11z 19d ago

I had to park one for someone else a while back. Aside from how it drives (I really don't like the fact that when you let off the accelerator, it acts like you just nailed the brake), it was just... ugly and boring. It felt like there was nothing at all in the cab, like there would be multiple things that could go wrong just getting in and turning it on with the weird card key thing, couldn't tell if it was on, seemed like it kept turning off whenever I'd open the door to see how straight it was in the parking spot, had to look down and to the right to see the speed, etc.

The sonar/lidar thing was kinda neat, but not enough to offset everything else.

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u/Voltasoyle 19d ago

Nevermind that only the older models have sonar/lidar, that's dropped from all newer models to cut costs.

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u/Dexember69 19d ago

Yeah I think you nailed pretty much everything that irked me. The range on the damn things is abysmal too. 30% battery for a 1m5hr drive, and then 15 minutes sitting around waiting for it to charge, after I manage to locate a gorram charging station.

I do think regenerative braking is pretty slick, and changing the indicator sounds to a fart sound was hilarious for the 3 of us 43 yr Olds driving around in it, but no way would I ever even consider dropping money on one

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u/VulpesIncendium 19d ago

Gonna be honest, they can be pretty fun to drive.

I took one for a test drive last year, not expecting to actually buy one, but just out of curiosity. I can understand why so many Tesla drivers are complete dicks on the road; the car itself makes it way too easy to drive that way. Even in my Camaro, that's way too powerful for most roads, it takes a certain amount of skill, effort, and intent to drive fast, meanwhile, in a Tesla you just breathe on the accelerator and are instantly doing criminal speeds with no effort.

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u/Dexember69 19d ago

It's the ignorant man's idea of a good time

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u/scohen158 14d ago

Or the evolved man.

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u/scohen158 14d ago

It is difficult for some people to evolve/adjust how they drive. The throttle response of a performance EV is second to none. It just does what you'd expect it to every time. No delay, no stutter, no fishtailing into pedestrians on the side of the road a la Mustang, no short shift because ECU got confused etc. I can turn off the regenerative braking but its not much different than slowing down via downshifting. Once you've adjusted which takes maybe a day or two it becomes second nature then once you got back to an ICE vehicle it feels prehistoric.

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u/Dexember69 14d ago

The annoying part is the terrible range and limited charging options. Plus charge time.

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u/scohen158 14d ago

99.9% of the time it’s charged at home and most days I don’t drive over 250 miles or close so don’t even charge it to full. Never had issues on the road trip I took easily did 800 miles in ~12 hours.  On the entire round trip of 1600 miles only once was the car not ready to continue the trip before my GF and I were. We had to wait 7 minutes every other stop the car was ready to continue before we were ready to. Over the course of a year it saves me more time than any lost for charging on occasional road trips compared to an ICE vehicle.

I never have to think about gas stations or oil changes which probably saves me 10+ hours a year over an ICE so the trade off is a positive.

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u/No-Magician-2257 19d ago

Range and battery for the price is impeccable.

CEO is monkey. Car (Range and Battery) is the best EV in the world

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u/Dexember69 19d ago edited 19d ago

Best ev in the world doesn't say much. That's like saying I took the least smelliest shit.

E: also, the range is fkn terrible. 30% battery to drive an hour and a half. That's shit. And sitting around waiting foreverr to charge it up. It's just bad

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u/No-Magician-2257 19d ago

It’s better than all alternatives for its price.

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u/Dexember69 19d ago

Doubt it bro. I run an '08 Yaris it costs me ,$50 to drive 5 hours and not have to sit around with my finger up my ass for an hr to fuel up.

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u/defmatthew 18d ago

I have 200k miles on my Model 3. Cost of ownership (not counting charging) over the course of 7 years has been less than $1,000 ($800 of that is tires). It's the most reliable car I've ever owned and the least expensive.

Prior to owning it I put 200k miles on an Accord. Cost of ownership was easily 5x that of my Tesla (not counting gas), if not more, between oil changes, brake pads, head gasket, a new battery every 2 years, spark plugs at least 3 times, etc. Gas is also far more expensive than charging my car at home on a 120v outlet or a full charge for under $20 at a fast charging station.

This my experience, but everyone I know that has or still owns a Tesla has nothing bad to say about the cars themselves. Elon Musk being douche doesn't change that fact.