It’s not that I don’t understand it. It’s that I don’t want to give him my money if I don’t have to. And that’s my right, yeah? I am sure the CEO of Hyundai/Kia is no saint, but on the other hand I don’t have to listen to their racist comments and general asshhattery on a constant basis. It’s great that you love your car. I love mine too. There’s room for more than one brand of EV. And as I mentioned in other posts, I was fine renting a Tesla in France this summer, so I’m not a zealot about it. I just have my preferences.

Yeah I hear you. It’s a completely fair point and I have no delusions about the saintliness of the other automakers. It’s the mouthiness you mention that gets to me.

But hey, if there weren’t other options, and we hadn’t gotten such a good deal on the EV6 (MSRP plus rebate plus tax credit) I might have swallowed my loathing and bought a Tesla. But we did have a good option. And we knew what we were getting into, too, regarding the charging infrastructure. But my wife and I just decided to go for it anyway, and with a home charger, 99 percent of our day-to-day driving experience all year is totally fine. It’s these once or twice a year cross-California road trips that burn.

I’ll buy the adapter, almost for sure, if it means I can use the Tesla network, yes. And it’s not like I’m a rabid anti-Musk guy–we did drive a Tesla all summer. I think the guy is a lunatic and a*hole, but I’m not gonna deny myself access to those chargers, given the shitty alternatives. I can only imagine how annoyed the Tesla drivers are gonna be once we start clogging up those stations too lol.

Oh yeah, I don’t disagree. I would have paid double or triple that to get out of the scene we were in. The problem was just not knowing if it was better anywhere else, especially given Thanksgiving weekend. I was checking various apps (not just EA) and it wasn’t clear to us that we had better options. There probably were. But we were wary to get out of one line only to possibly be stuck at the back of another…

I was certainly jealous of that, for sure. But no, I don’t wish I had a Tesla. Totally love my EV6. Drove a Tesla all summer in France and it was fine but nothing about it (again, aside from the public chargers) was superior to our EV6, IMHO.