I Rented A Tesla For A Week And Am Totally Sold On Gas-Powered Cars

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[–]Brewdabier 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

  1. In the manual or for that matter any rechargeable battery go above 90% or below 20%, same with a car. you don't drive it till it runs out of gas.

  2. Any gas station you have a chance of something going wrong.

  3. when driving a gas powered car you always reach for something, text, in general distracted driver.

  4. Tesla is not to blame for no manual or spare tire . that's Hertz responsibility but more over the drivers responsability to check.

  5. That's Hertz responsibility not Tesla.

This person is looking for crap to complain about, bet they also park in bike lanes.

[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

but that’s if you charge it to 100 percent (which no one does)

Leave it on the wall connector overnight, and it will be at 100% in the morning.

We also don’t believe EVs are particularly environmentally friendly since they need batteries that require the strip-mining of rare earth minerals such as lithium and cobalt.

The you don't believe in climate change and need to read some news every month or so.

Our Model 3 had an advertised range of about 300 miles, but that’s if you charge it to 100 percent (which no one does) and run it to 0 percent (which no one does). So the practical range is about 150-200 miles.

You must be using a much more crap model 3 than everyone else.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/we-drove-300-miles-in-a-tesla-model-3-to-prove-range-anxiety-is-dead

The battery even drained 10 percent just sitting in the driveway for about a day.

She must mean 1%. Sentry mode means that it does draw power, and you can not switch it off if you've got political reasons to give electric vehicles a bad review, but it doesn't drain 10% in a day.

Even at a supercharger, we had to wait about 30 minutes to up the battery charge by 50 percent

Really? Everyone else can get a Tesla from 10% to 80% in about 25 minutes at a supercharger. Did you unplug it for 20 minutes?

How to Lock the Car?

Really?

Our cheapest total charge was around $7 and ranged up to $25. We generally didn’t put more than a 50 percent charge into the car at any one time, and given the miles driven, the $25 charge was about the same as we would have paid for gas.

Only cheaper nearly all the time then.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The fact humanity hasn't just outlawed blatant lies (Top Gear started with that) to the point that it can get the death penalty when the stakes are beyond $10M is a sign of how corrupt humanity is. All Hail The Great Toxic Fossil Fuels or something. Durr... Durr.

[–]Phew 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd buy an ev for functionality but I'd still drive my car for love, I've not seen a ev yet that makes me think, that's a good looking car.

[–]DNase 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My EV has been great for commutes. I miss my ol' 4x4 a lot though. The EV is fun & cheap to drive but long trips aren't fun in regards to charging. Let's see what happens when the 15 min cities roll out.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is written like it was a school assignment for Propaganda 101. Just look at it hitting all the keywords in the second paragraph: "We agreed it would be an interesting learning experience despite our objections to the eco-agenda to phase out gas-powered vehicles. We also don’t believe EVs are particularly environmentally friendly since they need batteries that require the strip-mining of rare earth minerals such as lithium and cobalt. The World Economic Forum knows this very well and is likely looking for heavy limits on EV mobility after eliminating gas-powered vehicles."

Almost everything is false too, since Tesla was already using cobal free batteries in 2022 in half its cars. Comparing lithium and cobalt is also rather ridiculous. Also, the WEF is mentioned as if it is a real entity, while in fact it's just a dumb old guy names Klaus that organizes a get to together where for some reason lots of people come, because they want to act as if they matter (and all heard about the conspiracies and want to see whether they are true (which obviously is not the case)). If I were anyone in power, I'd never pay to be in the same room as Klaus, which says enough.