Half of this thread is people who would never have been getting an EV in general. Just complaining to complain and parroting the most popular clickbait points.
I kind of disagree. I hate Musk as much as the next guy, but the ultimate profiteer of any popular product you use are all assholes, Musk is just one of the few that love social media. The only EV I see close to the Y is the Ioniq 5. And with Polestar making the news this weekend don't get me started on the Polestar 2. Literal first reaction was that it felt like being back in a HMMWV. Small windows, bulky ass center console. Even with the tie for me between the Y and the 5, the 5 is so slow in comparison.
Other EVs too me just have absurd price-to-performance ratio considering what you can push from a Tesla, half the features, or just look ugly as fuck. The Leaf could have been synonymous with EVs are the way saying Tesla is, but fuck their vehicles look ugly. Many of the makers think a 30k EV has to look like a 2000 car and reserve their best looks for expensive models. Lucid and Fisker were way overestimated considering how much they were charging for a brand name that doesn't exist yet.
I don't think the judges even expect us to treat them seriously. At this point they're so far above us they don't even care anymore. Trump already put them in there. Short of dying, they aren't going anywhere.
I know I'll sound like a bootlicker, but this is why I'm in favor of more street cameras for the city. It's obnoxious how often there's a picture of the car involved in something but no one catches them because there's no way to just follow the car to where it went.
Half of this thread is people who would never have been getting an EV in general. Just complaining to complain and parroting the most popular clickbait points.