Confessions Of An EV/Tesla Fanboy: Who’s Dumber, Me Or My Tesla?
I’m a huge EV fanboy and have been driving electric cars now for 8 years. I also have solar panels on my house, so I can brag that I’m driving on sunshine. I owned three Nissan Leafs, with ranges of 81 miles, 115 miles, and 150 miles. My first Nissan Leaf had a 24 kWh battery. I now own a Tesla Model 3 Long Range with an EPA range rating of 310 miles and a 75 kWh battery. It has 93,112 miles on the odometer. The longest trip I dared to make with my 3Nissan Leaf was 265 miles.
Using Tesla’s Traffic Aware Cruise Control, I observe that my Tesla slows down for slower moving cars and automatically stops behind the car in front of me at stop lights. I also have access to automatic stopping at stoplights and stop signs. This feature does a very nice job except for stopping ~30 feet too early at some stop signs.
The same warning I get when crossing the yellow lines in the middle of the road would have been plenty for me to hit the brakes and avoid the collision. If you look closely at the picture at the top, you can see it is snowing. We have had snow here in the valley now for 7 days straight. The Alta ski resort is at 880 inches of snow for the season. One more storm will take it over 900 inches. The previous all-time record in the last 80 years was 745 inches in 1995. The climate is changing, and as predicted, more global warming means more precipitation, including more snow.
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