Never once said Telsa "sucks". And i do think their cars are cool. But they did have issues with their first vehicles with the batteries exploding on a few occasion.
No, they really didn't. Take it from me, someone that's owned 3 and is embarrassed to admit how much he knows about the different variations of the battery packs. They never had an exploding battery problem. The worst you'll see is they had a couple of incidents where debris on the road struck a corner of the battery and resulted in a slow fire. In the 2 or 3 cases this happened the car told the driver's to pull over and exit the vehicle before there was any fire. Tesla retrofitted shields on the front of the batteries in question. There has never been an issue with these batteries exploding though. Never.
There are other issues with their batteries as well.
And again, no. There are not. Not only are there no issues with the batteries but they have surpassed just about everyone's expectations in terms of degradation over time/ mileage. Understand how amazing that is that even on the the first revision "A pack" batteries like my last car had, they are seeing nearly no degradation after 4 years and tens of thousands of miles. That is uncanny. Wrap your head around how impressive that is. It's the first high capacity battery in a production car and not only did they get it good; they got it perfect. They got it
better than anyone's expectations. That's incredible.
Man, I don't even know where to start here. The first link is about the 12v battery and not the car's battery pack, the second isn't about the battery at all and the third not only isn't about battery problems but is highhhhhhly subjective. Once I saw it was Motleyfool I understood why. It's an obvious hit piece. It's an attempt to manipulate the stock price.
But these three links read like you just went to Google and searched for "model S bad" and then just posted the first results you got. They don't back your original claim of exploding batteries, they don't back your other claim of battery problems and worst of all: they're not even about the same problem. Every article is about something different.
On a business aspect of it, it just isn't on par with combustion engines yet. It hasn't caught on. Electric vehicles are an industry that has been around over 3 decades. It's not new, it's just been more refined with Tesla.
More refined? You don't think that's a bit of an oversimplification? Before Tesla came along name the longest range and fastest all electric car that existed. You can't. And do you know why you can't? Because it was likely neither fast nor capable of going very far and thus nobody wanted one. When you don't build a product people want or you build a product people want but with severe limitations they don't buy it. So yeah, a shitty version of electric cars that nobody wanted might very well have existed for 30 years. In fact, people here will tell you it existed for over 100 years. That doesn't change the fact that every all electric car before the Model S had very serious shortcomings that Tesla all but eliminated with the S and X.
Do I want a vehicle that costs 40K, yet can only go 200 miles before it needs a recharge, AND I can only get my car recharged at a charging station in a major city? Hell no, not when I can buy a comparable gas vehicle for $25K, go twice the distance on a tank of gas, and has support EVERYWHERE.
Well, incorrect assumptions about charging aside, that's fine but given the wildly inaccurate information you've posted so far, it seems to me you have your mind made up and are working backwards to support your conclusion.
