Well it’s a hell of a move and I’m happy for you.
But Ford and everyone else is going to be waist deep in EVs in 5 years. Already the Germans, even Porsche, has EV versions of their cars.
EV makes a lot of sense in many ways.
I see Tesla sort of the way I see (or saw) Amazon. Amazon lost money nearly every year for decades. They survived by selling bonds and raising public capital to expand. If they have to survive by their own cash flow they would either have much smaller businesses, higher prices, or gone out of business. But that’s capitalism and forward thinking.
I test drove a Tesla, oh maybe 5+ years ago when they only had that one model (Model S?). It was $80,000 base. I test drove the top end model. It some really great features and the acceleration of the direct gearbox was incredible. But at that time it was missing things that many cars in that price range take for granted. It didn’t have very good seats, especially the bench in the back. I took my dad with me and he was sliding all over when I took the turns. It didn’t have soft close doors, a small thing but for $100k every German and Japanese car has that feature. Without an engine and drive shaft it was very spacious, but didn’t really have much in the way of storage compartments. Just lots of empty box like spaces in the doors and center console.
I understand they’ve improved many of these things; and after market has come up with drop in compartments like a center console and door panel organizers. But ultimately I decided to wait... that old “never buy the first model year of a new car” axiom stuck in my head.