Lars997:
The G has charisma and Arno anyway - he is the best!
But an electric vehicle today? - Driving now since 2 months a Hybrid I come to the conclusion that a pure electric car still is total rubbish today. Why - because the infrastructure is still not given. It is so difficult to find charging places. And if you finally find a charger its place might be taken, or they are a rip off - the other day I paid 17,28 Eur (instead 2,80 Eur ) for a charge. I was trusting into the system of my paycard provider. How can this happen - lots of stations are going by time and kwH instead by KwH. Those are provided by a private company to rip off people (approx. 6 Eur/hour). Conclusion - so happy that I didn't buy that Tesla, it is too early for it.
It is very clear that you lack real time experience with a Tesla. I wrote a report about one that I got the opportunity to drive for some time. It was a great experience. When you drive longer distance, take a break each 250-300km and charge up in 20-25 minutes time. The trick is to only charge the battery up to 80% before moving on and doing so you "refill" about 11-12km/minute. If you have the 100kWh battery pack 80% give a range of about 350km drive. If you drive at 170kph you will probably come about 250km on 80%. For those outside of Germany who seldom drive +140km/h the range on motorways is hardly an issue.
I would say that driving a Tesla is only an issue for those who drive 1000km/day and a lot out in the sticks and does not have access to overnight charging. Then EV is probably not the best solution, even if it works (Still Tesla, not other EVs). But for 90% of driving behaviors running a Tesla is as good as any ICE-car. And the Supercharger network is really already well built out for most driving. And parking up in hotel garages and other destination charging is a breeze.
EV is clearly not for everybody, but it is a bit exaggerating to say that it is too early, because that is simply not true - for Tesla. Other EV's and hybrids that lack access to high speed charging is another story. Need to fiddle with payments, charging cables and such stuff. With Tesla you just park up, plug-in and take your 20 minute brake which is very nice thing to do each 3 hours while driving longer distance. After my longer commutes, my experience was that I had never been so fresh when I did arrive at my destination like driving the Tesla. It's actually quite nice to stop over these 20 minutes. And in the scheme of things you might loose about 30 minutes in total driving a Tesla instead of an ICE (for a 700km drive), because even if your gas-tank might take you longer, you need to eat and visit the restroom on longer drives anyway.
Thing is also - those days that you drive less than 300km you never need to even think about "filling up" because that is always solved overnight when you sleep.
The real challenge for the traditional car manufacturers will be to build up a adequate charging infrastructure. If they do so, then it will be a viable alternative. Until then, Tesla just are way ahead with the Supercharging network that actually works good already today, and get better for each day. Also 100% hazel free to use.
And final note - Making any conclusion for driving an EV after you have driven a hybrid that lack all the features that are important? Range and Quick convenient charging (and for Tesla also very cheap. Approx 0,4EUR/10km for cars sold today, FoC for older Teslas)