Was. It was the best made electric car on the market. For a loooong time. For a long time there were barely any other choices at all, nevermind good choices.
The market has now caught up, and elon musk has announced himself to be a Nazi. Exactly zero good reasons left to buy a Tesla. But it explicitly was the best option by a landslide for quite a while, assuming you could afford one.
As someone who was really excited about electric cars I sat waiting for a long time trying to see when they would have meaningful competition. Its there now, but it sure as hell didn’t used to be.
Edit: double checked and the first consumer models of tesla came out in 2010. They’re that old. I think people who weren’t paying attention to cars and EVs might not have realized just how long there were no meaningful competitors.
This is inaccurate. It is not even close to the best made electric car on the market, it is not even a well made car, period.
Was. It was the best made electric car on the market. For a loooong time. For a long time there were barely any other choices at all, nevermind good choices.
The market has now caught up, and elon musk has announced himself to be a Nazi. Exactly zero good reasons left to buy a Tesla. But it explicitly was the best option by a landslide for quite a while, assuming you could afford one.
As someone who was really excited about electric cars I sat waiting for a long time trying to see when they would have meaningful competition. Its there now, but it sure as hell didn’t used to be.
Edit: double checked and the first consumer models of tesla came out in 2010. They’re that old. I think people who weren’t paying attention to cars and EVs might not have realized just how long there were no meaningful competitors.