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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Tesla model Y (SUV style) is now about $50K.  We have ordered ours (and it looks like a lot of folks in our NW DC neighborhood already have one).  It has range of a little over 300.  As I understand it, the advantage of buying a Tesla right now is that beyond the car itself, Teslas can charge on almost all chargers but only Teslas can charge on Tesla superchargers.  So the ability to use the fast chargers on a road trip is a big advantage.  That might change in the future, but right now Tesla is dominant for charging on the road.  [/quote]

We're thinking of buying a non-Tesla EV and just took a road trip in our gas car up I-95 -- we were paying pretty close attention to the EV charging infrastructure because we wondered about doing the trip with the new car. There were non-Tesla fast charging options at all but one of the rest stops we used for gas and/or bathroom breaks (and that one was about 15 miles from another one that did have a non-Tesla charging station).

I don't know what Tesla's price to use their stations is if you have one of their cars, so maybe that's an advantage if it's free or heavily discounted compared to one of the other networks. But I didn't see any particular reason to worry about availability of non-Tesla fast charging, at least between here and New York.[/quote]

This. If you look, there are pretty adequate chargers around for non-Teslas, and obviously proliferating more by the day. Tesla owners only know the Tesla network, and that's understandable: they have no reason to know or look into the availability of non-Tesla chargers.[/quote]

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