Not to mention that it doesn’t have the battery degradation that my leaf suffered from. Nissan engineers messed up big time by leaving proper battery thermal management, giving edge to newcomers like BYD.
Price to build quality/package ratio. For AUD 36ks you can get a BYD Dolphin Premium with blade LFP battery, which will give you around 450 to 500ks of range.Why would you buy a Tesla?
> Tesla's charging infrastrucute is a competitive advantage.
Tesla's charging network being closed is detrimental to EVs.
Closed, incompatible infrastructure is dumb infrastructure. Closed, incompatible infrastructure is backward and primitive.
As a self respecting car buyer you should actively select against brands that try to lock you in and brands that try to shut you out.
What you want is smart infrastructure. You want to demand that all brands of EV can charge on all brands of charger with no dumb charging accounts.
The good news is Tesla chargers work with non-Tesla EVs. They've been open to all EVs in Europe for years. They're open to all EVs in Australia. Tesla has even started to open them to all EVs in North America.
It works because Tesla has adopted the CCS charging standard in North America (just like Tesla was already using in Europe and Australia). NACS is CCS charging with the J3400 plug. J3400 is the third plug type CCS supports.
Here's a Kia charging on a Tesla charger in England. No dumb Tesla account, no idiot Tesla app. Contactless payment just as Nature intended: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yflZN0dLT8s
BYD is not behind Tesla in safety with full score in ANCAP and software refinements dropping every now and then OTA. The UX of the BYD is far better as well with no forced minimalism.
