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I can go in excess of 300 miles without refueling, and have had zero difficulty on road trips finding Superchargers. In addition, I have a J-1772 adapter which allows me to use non-Tesla chargers, of which there are thousands.

Regarding cost of fuel: you are assuming that my motivation for driving the Tesla is fuel cost, which is absolutely incorrect. This is a blazingly fast, quiet, well-built, and gorgeous luxury car, which is why I bought it. It is faster than the BMW M car which was its predecessor. The fact that the car has lifetime free charging at Superchargers is just icing on the cake.

I’m a longtime gearhead, and have owned close to 150 classic, sports, and high performance cars and motorcycles. I love the sound of an engine as much as anyone, but I have to say that anyone who says the Model S is a bad car is not being objective, or has never touched one.

Sure, you can go 300 miles, and then, you have to recharge, and recharging, as shown in the video, is not as short as in and out in a matter of minutes. A Honda Civic can go some 440 miles before needing to refuel, and it only takes 5 minutes or less. The cost of fuel is not what I was pointing out. What I was simply pointing out is that, you are being sold the 'fuel' for your vehicle, up front. Most EV buyers think about their 'fuel' as being just the electricity it takes for a recharge. But, the majority of the cost of the 'fuel' was bought up-front when the vehicle was purchased new. IOW, the battery is the 'fuel', and that is the most expensive part of an EV, where batteries can cost, initially, between $5,000 to $20,000 or more, depending upon the vehicle purchased. EV makes will never point that out, and that is lying by omission about the true cost of 'refueling'.

Regarding the 'blazingly fast' driving, the question is, WHY?, why would a person buy a vehicle which can be blazingly fast in city driving, or even on highways where most of the speed limits are 65 MPH? When people look to save on EVs, they're not thinking about driving blazinly fast. EVs are supposed to be for the regular consumer, and the driving enthusiasts are not the bigger target market.

I never said that a Tesla is a bad car. What I do point out is that, it's not a practical car; not for economic reasons, and not for longer distance driving, and not economical when it comes to 'fuel', and 'fuel' costs is what the EVs tout as their advantages.