This makes zero sense to me.
Sure the Leaf is cheaper, but all owning a Model S and not a Leaf says to me is you liked the Model S more then a Leaf and you bought it.
Actually it might say you bought the Model S years before the Leaf was for sale.
I know someone with a Leaf, their daily commute fits int he Leaf’s theoretical range. It doesn’t fit in the observed in real life range, so they need to park at another companies offices (mine!) and charge it every day so they can get home. If they had a Tesla they could make the round trip (which is all you really need because with an EV getting a full charge at home every single night is easy, unlike say a gas car where it would be a significant pain). They could make multiple round trips in fact.
So owning a Tesla and not a Leaf could mean they work 45 miles from home and don’t have a reliable way to charge at the office.
It could just mean you don’t like the Leaf, and do like the Tesla.
If you want to make a “if you own X you don’t care about owning an electric car” the X would be a “not electric car”, and even there you aren’t exactly correct.
A lot of people only own used cars worth under $3000 because that is what they can afford. They aren’t getting an EV for a long time. Like until a used EV actually reaches that price, and is still useful. Maybe even not just useful but better then used gas cars at $3k and under.
I don’t own an electric car, or at least I own a plug in battery hybrid. If I go over about 20 miles I’m a gas car, under 20 and I’m not. So you could say I don’t care about owning an electric car. I definitely didn’t care about owning one enough to buy a model S at the time, but I would consider a model 3 if I were buying today. I also hear Hyaundi makes a nice EV, so I would look at that too. My car is actually a lease, and up in Decemberish.
I’m actually likely not to get a car at all though. In the last year I have gone from putting about five miles a day on my car to riding an electric scooter. Depending on how well I make it through the bad weather part of the year I’ll stick to it. Not really to save the earth though, I just figure one less monthly payment will be good for me.
“If you have a rambler you don’t like houses because you could buy two A-frames” – said nobody ever I hope!
Yep, Musk is a loon. I’ll admit I use to admire him, but either I was an idiot or he has changed. Either way I sure don’t now. It doesn’t make the Tesla a bad car though, but the companies founder being a loon should probably be factored in when you are thinking about how long the company will exist to make spares for anything that might break. Just because EVs are more reliable then gas cars doesn’t mean they never need new parts.
