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Originally Posted by Bartruff1

My neighbor has a Tesla, dumbest car ever.....cost about $140,000 and you can't drive it 150 miles....his wife drove it ONCE, got stuck in traffic and the batteries went dead and she couldn't even get it to the shoulder of the road. She won't even ride in it..

They have very few dealers to service or repair or do recall work....if something is wrong it costs him $1000 to have it hauled to Seattle and then he has to figure out a way to get it home.

The depreciation is ridiculous as it is old technology and there is no market for used Teslas.

For the same money he could have bought a all wheel drive Porsche that could be driven from the Artic Circle ( Coldfoot Alaska) to Key West in any weather and in perfect comfort with the HVAC keeping the temp at 70 all the way..

The only thing dumber than the car is the stock.....the company loses about a billion dollars a year...;

I have to disagree. I have a P85D and really enjoy driving the car. It's by far the quickest car I have. It ran 11.3 at 118 in the quarter and handles well for such a heavy car. Has an extremely low center of gravity because the battery is under the car. My car is rated at 250 mile range but depending on a lot of factors can be much less. The new P100D has a 300 mile range. Did a 4,000 mile trip in it and only had one time when range became a problem. It was 30 degrees into a 20 MPH headwind driving between 75-80 mph and I only got 180 miles. Except for trips just plug it in at night and it's ready to go in the morning. You do have to plan trips but I actually enjoy doing it. If you run out of juice while just driving in town you're just not paying attention. You are correct if you do run out of juice you're screwed. My wife uses it as her car but says she doesn't like it.