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I'm ready to buy a second one, to replace an older vehicle, but I will get a used one this time.

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Have you considered alternate brands? My wife's Hyundai Ioniq 5 is pretty nice.

Has ICCU blown yet? Hyundai just can't be trusted with any cars, EVs included.

Kona? Reductor gear blows up at 100k km, right as warranty expires.

Get lost, Elon.

Ioniq 6 is also very nice, better build quality than the model 3

Many Hyundai are already on the 800V architecture and charge faster

Better build quality at expense of like 10 features.

Like having real buttons instead of an ipad?

So tired of teslaholes and their superiority complex...

What real buttons? Ioniq6 uses capacitive touch climate buttons. The worst of both worlds.

Love how every anti-tesla comment now ends with personal attack.

Now compare the steering wheels and yokes

I have multiple physical buttons I can assign to different functions

Does Tesla even make yokes anymore? IIRC it's only on cybertruck where it makes sense due to drive-by-wire.

Steering wheel buttons are pretty good on Tesla and there's tons of third party options of buttons. In fact I am not sure if there are any modern cars as hackable as Tesla (still long ways to go tho).

p.s. I had rental MB campervan few months ago. IIRC about 12 buttons with 30+ positions. Absolute nightmare to use.

I just wonder why would anyone buy something from a company that has a ceo like that one. Care to tell your experience with that first one?

It has been an outstanding ownership experience.

Have there been some quality problems? Yes, some things were fixed under warranty.

But in my opinion after years of research, the overall experience (especially when you consider the Supercharger network) they are years ahead of any other manufacturer.

Did any of your research include owning any other brand of EV?

I own a model 3 but would be hesitant to buy another Tesla given there’s a genuine risk the company won’t be around in a few years.

This reminds me of a case study task I had to do almost 20 years ago in university (business degree). It was about AWS. I've convinced my team to recommend shutting it down since it wasn't core competency. Tutor nearly laughed us out of the room for suggesting shutting down $1b business.

With fair competition, Tesla is out of business in weeks. And stop the "green credits" crap, because others are givin Tesla money for absolute nothing because all electric cars are not green. If you really want an electric and that is not because you want a green car, buy it from BYD or any other China brand, Toyota or Merc or BMW.

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