Review

You're spending $200-400 monthly on gas, watching prices swing wildly based on geopolitics you can't control. Oil changes every 5,000 miles. Brake jobs. Transmission fluid. Timing belts. The thousand-dollar surprise repairs that always hit at the worst time. Your car depreciates the moment you drive off the lot and keeps depreciating while requiring constant maintenance. This is what car ownership has always been—expensive, unpredictable, and actively working against you. Internal combustion engines are engineering nightmares dressed up as normalcy. Hundreds of moving parts, each a potential failure point. Controlled explosions happening thousands of times per minute. Fluids that degrade and leak. Emissions systems that fail inspection. The entire automotive industry evolved around planned obsolescence—vehicles designed to require dealer service, replacement parts, and eventually full replacement. You've been conditioned to accept that cars are money pits. Electric was supposed to be the compromise option: save the planet but sacrifice performance, range, convenience. Early EVs reinforced this—golf carts with doors that couldn't go far, charged slowly, and felt like virtue signaling rather than actual vehicles. 'Going electric' meant accepting less. Tesla inverted every assumption. Model 3 and Model Y offer 300+ miles of range, 0-60 in under 6 seconds standard (under 4 seconds in Performance trims), and the largest fast-charging network on earth—50,000+ Superchargers, now open to other EVs. The car has approximately 20 moving parts in the drivetrain versus 2,000+ in a combustion engine. No oil changes. Regenerative braking means brake pads last the life of the vehicle. Maintenance is essentially tires and washer fluid. Your car improves after purchase through over-the-air updates. Autopilot provides adaptive cruise control and lane centering standard. The total cost of ownership—purchase price plus fuel plus maintenance—beats comparable gas vehicles within years. If you're still buying internal combustion, you're choosing the worse technology because it's familiar.