dunno how i missed this thread! you probably saw in one of the other ones that i have a Model S P100D. (haven't regretted it for a millisecond .. so much fun to drive)

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still in love with my Model S. can't recommend it highly enough.

lots of cars go up in flames when you crash them. not news.

took my Model S P100D to Pinehurst (about 600 miles) and Deep Creek Lake (about 200 miles) recently. car was superb on both trips. couldn't be happier. to be honest, it's silly, but my favorite aspect is still the ludicrous acceleration. a WRX STI was in front of me revving his engine and he took off at a stoplight. i don't think he knew i was behind him. after he took off, i silently pulled into the adjacent lane and blew right by him like was standing still. his eyes were dinner plates, haha.

coming in second is the user interface -- i still believe Tesla is the only car company to do a touchscreen correctly.

I have the P100D and while it is hard to justify by any logical argument ... I have not regretted it for a microsecond. It's unbelievable and I love it. A year later it still has me grinning ear to ear.

Congrats! You will love it.

if they can pull off the numbers stated in that presentation, every other exotic car maker should be shaking in their boots. a production car that does the quarter mile in 8.7 seconds, and costs $250,000? for comparison ... the Bugatti Chiron does the quarter about a second and a half slower, and it costs $3 million. add on 620 mile range, and a top speed in excess of 250mph? man, that would be revolutionary, and would make most million-dollar supercars obsolete over night. i know $250k sounds more like a mortgage than a car pricetag to most people, but it's a stone cold steal for the performance numbers they're talking about.

i know Porsche and Lamborghini and the other players are all trying to play catch up for real now, but none of them have a gigafactory, and none of them have a charging network. and none of them have the data and experience that Tesla has spent the last decade building up, either.

They make hundreds of thousands of batteries a year for their Model X and Model S vehicles. They’ll get there.

My P100D was delivered less than a month after ordering. It has had zero problems over the last year. Battery capacity is still 100% but that’s not surprising. There are Teslas with literally 500,000 miles that still have over 80% of their battery capacity. Lots of cars over 200,000 miles still have over 90% max capacity. Look it up. Those are facts. Of course most car owners never see 200k miles let alone half a million.