Re:Inside the Tesla 100kWh Battery Pack
by verletx64 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:16AM
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Not sure personally, the poster says it's good for X case, for Y case it's not so good. Doesn't really fit the pattern you're outlining, he hasn't called Tesla cars bad at all.
I'm not seeing the confrontation, I'm seeing concessions made and a balanced comment.
Re:Inside the Tesla 100kWh Battery Pack
by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @10:31AM
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I think that's implied by the first sentence: "I don't want to specially handle my car every day", which seems like a claim that you need to do that with Teslas. Which is only true if you want to travel 5 or 600 miles on one charge every single day, which basically nobody does.
It's perfectly possible to express these kind of opinions in a way that wouldn't seem confrontational but apparently that's hard for people to do. (e.g. "my town is quite hilly, so cycling doesn't make as much sense for me as it does in flatter areas") In this case, possibly just leaving off the first sentence would have been enough. Probably not though, as it still comes off like the world revolves around their, not particularly common, use case.
That's maybe half of it, the fact that their comment is quite possibly just factually wrong, combined with the above means they don't get the benefit of the doubt.
There's lots of previous-gen EVs that would probably welcome the label of "good for in-city use", but it seems a stretch to say that is the limited application for any model of Tesla S.