Metabolical

Other stuff:

My wife says a way to close the charge port from inside. She always forgets to. She'd like to have the profile remember her radio station too. And a place to hang dry cleaning.

I'd like the car to know which of our two keys goes with which profile. I hit my head on the roof because she likes the seat so high.

I mentioned some other stuff below, but it's all pretty minor. pm me if you want more.

TL;DR Satisfied and love the car, the total cost was still personally quite high.

It was not an impulse. I have a friend who got the Tesla Roadster, and he let me drive it, first on the road, and then at an auto-cross track. (It drove like a sports car). But we didn't want a sports car, we preferred the sedan, so when the Model S was announced, we thought about it a lot and decided to get it, part spoiling, and part to support the idea of nice electric cars. We put some money down a couple years ago, and the more when we decided to get the signature series. We got the signature series in part because it brought us to the front of the line, and from the belief that having a limited edition version of a car can help preserve its resale value. I'm really satisfied with the car, I really enjoy it. The only regret is that it really was a lot of money, beyond what we planned. The car was announced as $57,499 with a $7500 federal tax credit for getting an electric car, but once you added the options, primarily longer battery range, it rose to $100k. We had big reevaluate and decided to go ahead anyway.

I wanted to believe my answer was a little funny.

I drove from town to a nearby ski resort, parked for the day, and drove back. The ski resort is about 75 miles away. It appeared to use a lot of my charge on the way up, but coming down the mountain I drove 20-30 miles using basically no energy.

TL;DR 150 mile trip with cold and a mountain.

I got the super high end version for $100k, and I wasn't very comfortable with it. I paid cash because I hate consumer debt. It put a big dent in my retirement savings but I really want the world to have electric cars that are nice instead of like souped up golf carts. Honestly, I'm not the best expert to say what stable income you should have. I will say that you save a lot on gas and actually on maintenance, so I think it becomes comparable to other slightly "cheaper" luxury vehicles like a Mercedes, BMW, or Lexus.