Quote Originally Posted by mach1 View Post
Lots of haters but I picked up a Model 3 Performance last year, 68k after discounts, absolutely love the car. Instant ridiculous power, great for hauling the family, safest car ever built, great for work, awesome sound system, comfortable, after 5 months I'm still thrilled with it. I will say, bad for road trips though because of the charging situation. Another nice thing, it doesn't draw a lot of attention but it's fast as hell, I can literally punch it right behind a cop and it's not noticed, so I haven't got into trouble (yet) and I'm always wailing on it.
No oil changes, brake pads last forever because of the regen braking, it's nice reducing my gas engine maintenance by 1 engine as well, speaking of that, I need to change the oil on my 6.7 F350 this weekend ugh.
Here is a little 0-90 side by side comparison with a C7 Z06.

https://youtu.be/ntrdC4D1-Jc
Pretty neat video, thanks for sharing. Electric cars are great, and fulfill a neat segment in the auto industry right now.

My concern as transportation starts to go 'green' is that we analyze the total environmental impact of the vehicle from womb to tomb. That is, what are the implications of the battery manufacturing process, where does the power charging the car come from, and what's the disposal/recycling strategy for the batteries at the end of the cars lifecycle to name a few. I remember an article when the Prius came out that did some total environmental impact analysis and concluded that a Hummer H2 was better environmentally over the life cycle of the car than the Prius, mainly due to the battery manufacturing implications. Idk if that's still true, but still sticks in my head.

That being said...I hate changing the 3 gals of oil my Dodge holds, wouldn't miss that!