I recently want to upgrade my car for improved comfort and safety features. I'm located in an area where $/kWh is not cheap. Everyone around me raves about the Tesla but I can't seem to see it beating a hybrid in $/mile. And it lacks features like parking sensors (the vision based parking assist failed 50% of the time during my test drive). The test drive went poorly overall. I'm not a "$TSLA short" hater, as I happily hold the stock, but I was excited to be done with my vehicle search and disappointed in its performance.
I want to know how people choose what car to drive, and what metrics people optimize for.
My wife was spending 300$ a month on gas with her commute. Now that costs us 30$ a month. Basically our total cost of ownership is the same, but we upgraded from a Yaris so well worth it in our case.
Works for us because we have a garage and can charge at home. Ours is old so we got FSD back in the day when it was a lot cheaper. FSD has vastly improved over the past 5 years, the car routinely drives 45 minutes to work with zero interventions and the latest update greatly improved park assist. The screen now visualizes all the nearby spots and you just touch the screen to select where you want it to park. Works well for me.
The used ones like CAD25k, worth it my opinion.