I am renting a Tesla three. I really dislike it.

[anonymouse1]

So Hertz had a deal where the EV was half the price of than anything else so I did it.

Turned out with a Tesla three, I was kind of excited to have the experience. What a letdown!

First of all, most of the plastic sheet on the steering wheel has healed away. Second fix padding between the front door and the back door comes off whenever I get into the car. The door threshold is way way way too high.

Most of all almost everything I have to interact with feels like it was taken from “Tom Swift and His Dynamo-Electromobile”. Something as easy as switching from the built-in music to my phone took about three minutes to figure out. The external door handle is needlessly complicated. That there’s no way to turn the car off without using the providing card, unless I want to install, the app is also ridiculous. The fact that I have to take my eyes off the road to adjust almost anything and that there’s no tactile feedback is a total dealbreaker.

Yes, I’m sure some of these things would go away if I was using the car for longer period of time. And the acceleration is incredible. But the appear in ability to in the least bit modified the regenerative breaking is another dealbreaker.

Glad I rented, and really glad I don’t own one.

[Speedy]

Some things require a little extra effort to learn but it’s well worth it and with practice they become second nature, like proofreading before pushing the post message button.

[Acer]

Speedy wrote:
Some things require a little extra effort to learn but it’s well worth it and with practice they become second nature, like proofreading before pushing the post message button.

:ohsnap:

[graylocks]

I was disappointed when I rented one a few years ago. The experience was not all it was cracked up to be.

[davester]

Speedy wrote:
Some things require a little extra effort to learn but it’s well worth it and with practice they become second nature, like proofreading before pushing the post message button.

miley-laughing001:

[anonymouse1]

One of these things is not like the other.

Speedy wrote:
Some things require a little extra effort to learn but it’s well worth it and with practice they become second nature, like proofreading before pushing the post message button.

[NewtonMP2100]

....U.......two.....???

[Speedy]

anonymouse1 wrote:
One of these things is not like the other.

[quote=Speedy]
Some things require a little extra effort to learn but it’s well worth it and with practice they become second nature, like proofreading before pushing the post message button.

True :wink:

[jdc]

its a learning experience, for sure. Hard to rate any cars construction after being a "rental" car, especially hertz =)

Yeah, the regen is weird. But millions and millions of peeps have managed to figure out without too many issues.

Everything takes a minute... even a year later I still struggle with the shifter on my BMW, its forward for reverse, which just seems wrong. Or the start/stop button, which was on the dash in our last car, but now its in the center console... I touch the dash often...

[RAMd®d]

One of these things is not like the other.


Speedy should write that 500 times on a blackboard while being herassed by a hot teacher.

Having to take one's eyes off the road to work a touch screen for common functions is a non-starter.

One would think a vox option would be available, but they're too slow for my taste.

I want raised buttons on the dash, close by, and on the steering wheel.

Any information I need while the moving that's on a screen, should be directly in front of me.