It’s a dangerous defect because the car just stops driving. On the freeway, it could be a death trap, because the regenerative braking slows the car down much more quickly than a conventional car.

The car is a lemon. It was very fun to drive for the few days I had it, but clearly, Musk is more about having a car look great than be safe.

Anyone driving one of these is a beta tester. It’s one thing to beta test a new piece of software, but you don’t drive software at freeway speeds.

Also, the car is nowhere as near as energy efficient as claimed. It’s really false advertising. The battery and its charger runs constantly even when the car is off and regardless of whether it has been driven for days.

Customer service is abyssmal. I think I am seeing a company that will implode. It makes sense that Musk, whose Paypal is quite anti-customer and whose SpaceX, whose rockets explode on takeoff, show us where he is going with Tesla.

No regard for the customers, and products that explode. Scary.

Though they have two problems – they need to spend a lot of R&D, but funding is probably tight and they are basically selling a luxury product in a down market which is hard (though Apple seem ok so far)

I just had my charger put in yesterday and with the low speed charger it takes 6-8 hours for a full charge and with high-speed charger it takes 3-4 hours.

I actually think I’ll never have to buy/drive another car since I only do two or three road trips a year (i.e. San Diego), and when I do I can us my old Mini Cooper.

95% of folks drive less than 100 miles a day… so the Tesla 2.0 at 60k and 3.0 at 30k would do the trick. Additionally, battery life is getting better and better, so my guess is they will be able to get the range from 220+ to 350-400+ in two years. When the car gets to 400 miles a charge and under 50k then it really starts to make sense because the gas savings of 2-3k a year pays for the additional 15k of the car (or something like that).

As a customer of the Tesla for four days I can tell you the car is a dream (as it should be for 120k) and a lot of fun. as much fun as it is, it’s not a toy either…. it’s very practical. It has a trunk, it’s comfortable, and it’s got more range than I’ll every use.

Nothing would be better than our country getting off foreign oil. That’s the number one reason I bought (second would be the environment, third would be it’s a sexy car). we can’t be involved with the backwards, human-rights violators in the middle east who repress the basic rights of women, gays, and journalists/bloggers.

Getting an EV is a political statement for me. We have to kick the oil habit.

all the best, jason