Quote Originally Posted by Justin View Post
The point here, is that there are people who constantly harp about how range limits and charge times are some kind of show stopper, when in fact, even with a first generation Tesla, it clearly is not, as demonstrated by someone who's undertaken the sort of long-distance endurance driving that very, very, very few people would ever actually attempt. Extrapolating that feat to the sort of long distance driving the average person undertakes once or twice a year seems like a fairly easy exercise, basically assume that maybe it takes you 30 minutes to top up the battery vs. 10 minutes to fill up a gas tank.
The range limits and charge times are REAL and very much a showstopper when you're doing 800+ miles per day. I don't know where you get the idea that very few people attempt endurance driving as I've known tons of people who've done cross-country road trips. IIRC, Tesla's Supercharger gets the battery to 80% in 45 minutes. If you are doing over 600 miles, that charge added over an hour to your road trip, nearly 2 hours added each way for something like my recent drive to/from Tucson. I don't see a lot on Cannonball Runs per se these days but plenty of people do endurance drives whether it's driving between NY and FL or the East and West coasts, they just add in sensible overnight stops that you'd forgo in an actual Cannonball.

As far as I've seen, the MSM is in love with Tesla and Elon Musk. I don't know where you've seen all this negative coverage of Tesla except maybe in the autoblogs and car magazines where the authors and readers are interested in cars that actually finish the Nurburgring or Le Mans.

There is a place for everything, including EVs, but a lot of the buzz about Tesla is just that, buzz and hype. If a Tesla or Chevy's Bolt fit your driving pattern, great. If they don't, traditional car manufacturers are still making incredible improvements.