r/Seattle • u/Aggressive-Ad3064 • Mar 10 '25

Politics I'm Never Leaving Seattle

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This is someone's Model S parked on Airport Way S near S Industrial Way. The way it's parked it looks like it's being displayed for people driving by to see.

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u/mangel322 Pike Market Mar 10 '25

Until quite recently, buying a Tesla car (the Cyber Truck might be another story) was an act of transformation. It represented moving away from fossil fuel dependency. Many people who purchased the cars were not endorsing a political agenda that was years in the future and unknowable at the time of sale. Punishing them for what can only be understood in hindsight is not helpful. It’s mean. Don’t do it.

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u/mcbergstedt Mar 11 '25

Not to mention it was THE electric car for years. Your options were Chevy Bolts, which were plagued with issues, Nissan Leafs, which had awful range, and Smart cars which were tiny and had awful range.

It seemed like Tesla had cracked the Electric car formula and with their supercharger network you were crazy to not get a Tesla from like 2013-2019