Very few really will ant fully autonomous driving, especially once they understand how easily they can be jacked and literally forced to only drive at certain times or perhaps even drive you off a cliff because some government or someone decided they don't like you.We have had so many Tesla Killers (Audi, Jaguar, Porsche, Ford, Rivian, GM) and we also have had as many also ran's. No one has come up with a vehicle with the features of the Tesla at the price point of Tesla. No one other than VW has a dedicated charging network. No one has pushed autonomous driving in sold to the customers cars like Tesla (Waymo may be ahead in the technology, but they want to keep to themselves and monetize it as a taxi service)
For now all the so called competitors are paper tigers. Will the real Real Tesla killer stand up?
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Honestly the Kona has the important features the Tesla offers at a lower price point. And you really don't need a dedicated charging network, in fact it is probably best to have multiple so that if one folds, there are still other options. Imagine if the unthinkable happens and Tesla goes out of business. I know this seems unlikely, but it could happen and if you don't already have all of the appropriate adapters you could be limited to only Tesla charging stations and if they no longer function, what would you do?
Don't forget that Teslas have those stupid pop out handles, no physical door locks, no switches or buttons for a lot of things and at least the Kona doesn't have a stupid glass roof.
But Teslas are good in that they are encouraging more EV adoption and that is a good thing, but we need other companies to come out with even more and not just sell them in zero emissions states. We also need the federal government to mandate that 50% of all new car sales need to be zero emissions by say June of next year and fuel cell and natural gas vehicles don't count die to the ways their fuel has to be produced and then that needs to increase by 20% per year until we are at 100% of new car sales being zero emissions. Unfortunately that is the only way we are going to get traditional car companies producing more EVs because their current business model makes it harder to make a profit off of EVs due there basically being no maintenance and very few repairs needed.