I’d buy Chinese if I could, but I can’t. Chinese cars are the only cars that are as high of quality in the infotainment department (the most important part of a car), and I’m absolutely pissed that that is the reality.
My lightning is a gigantic piece of shit. It’s been in the shop 40 days in one year of ownership. The infotainment screen software runs at 15fps. VW doesn’t have an electric option with at least 320 miles of range (afaik) and their infotainment center screens are way too small (15” is the minimum at which a screen can be useful). Rivian is unaffordable and has the same slowness problem with their software. (Tesla does the right thing which is putting a processor that’s way overpowered in the infotainment stack which means that the software will be 120FPS for years to come)
Aren’t Teslas famously NOT high quality? Like, at all? Glued on plastic body panels and whatnot? Can’t take it through a car wash without frying all the electronics (oh, but don’t worry, we added a special “car wash” button just for that!)?
I’d buy Chinese if I could, but I can’t. Chinese cars are the only cars that are as high of quality in the infotainment department (the most important part of a car), and I’m absolutely pissed that that is the reality.
Rivian. VW. Hell even a Ford f150 lightning. The choices arent just between China and Tesla.
My lightning is a gigantic piece of shit. It’s been in the shop 40 days in one year of ownership. The infotainment screen software runs at 15fps. VW doesn’t have an electric option with at least 320 miles of range (afaik) and their infotainment center screens are way too small (15” is the minimum at which a screen can be useful). Rivian is unaffordable and has the same slowness problem with their software. (Tesla does the right thing which is putting a processor that’s way overpowered in the infotainment stack which means that the software will be 120FPS for years to come)
Aren’t Teslas famously NOT high quality? Like, at all? Glued on plastic body panels and whatnot? Can’t take it through a car wash without frying all the electronics (oh, but don’t worry, we added a special “car wash” button just for that!)?
Then there was the bumpers fall off in the rain era, and the “we finished the car with bits from Home Depot” era.