A lot of us are fed up with Elon Musk. We had planned to buy a Tesla Model Y by now, but changed our minds when Musk bragged about paying millions of dollars to buy elections for our idiot President of Stupidity.
We loved our Model 3 except for the ultra low seat. When you are in your 70s it physically hurts our knees and backs to lower ourselves down into the car. It also hurts to climb back out of the car. I admit that it was not smart to purchase a car on the internet without ever having seen or sat in it. Other than the pain, and then learning that Elon Musk is an egotistical Nazi we loved our Model 3. So we finally decided to go ahead and buy our next car. It is a Hyundai Ioniq 5 SE. So far we like it a lot. It does not have a glass roof, Yea! I had bought a sun screen to block most of the sun coming through that damned glass roof of the Tesla. Sometime in the future we may buy another Tesla if Elon Musk is no longer associated with the company in any way. Today I drove past a Tesla Supercharger that we have used several times. Among those charging their cars was a non-Tesla car (OK by me) and one of those god awful Tesla Cybertrucks. I had to laugh about the Cybertruck, but I do hope that the owner is happy with it. Bobby Keeland, Research Forest Ecologist Southern Louisiana On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM EV List Lackey via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Service availabiltiy makes something of an argument in favor of an EV from > a > traditional major automaker, as long as the manufacturer has done due > diligence in training its dealership mechanics and stocking spare parts. > > For example, here in France, if your Renault EV flakes out on a road trip, > service is never very far away. Renault has about 570 dealers. If you > also > count the independent Renault garages, the number is close to 4500. > > By comparison, if I'm counting right, Tesla has 29 dealers for all of > France. (IMO, for a relative upstart brand, that's not bad at all.) > > FWIW, France is a little smaller in square area than Texas, which has 28 > Tesla dealers. However, Texas has 224 Chevrolet locations and 225 for > Ford. > Kia and Hyundai combined have 122 Texas locations. (Following all that?) > > OTOH, in the US, Tesla will (sometimes?) send a tech to where you are. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > It will always be one of the best jokes of democracy that it > gives its deadly enemies the means to destroy it. > > -- Joseph Goebbels > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20250719/40e3177b/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
