Other brand have their own version of all of that. Phone as a key? You get that in basically everything (and it's a terrible idea, because now you're locked out of 2 important devices if your phone is lost, broken, or stolen). Tesla maps? Nav systems have existed for decades now. Nav that calculates in your EV charging stops? Standard EV fare.
Sandy Munro is a paid influencer, he's about as unbiased as Elon Musk would be. His job is to sell you on Tesla superiority. To his followers, he does a good job too.
The big advantage Tesla has is price. They have all their development paid for because they were given a carbon credit market that they had essentially exclusive access to. All the other automakers were forced by the EPA to buy their carbon credits, which paid for all of Tesla's infrastructure and development. Now the automakers also have to pay for their own development and infrastructure, so they can't compete with Tesla on price. But that's ok because Congress and the government types that made that happen all invested in Tesla stock and made millions and millions of dollars.
If a president were to issue an executive order saying that the carbon credit market was being reversed, and that any money paid for them should be refunded, pegged to inflation, and with interest, Tesla would probably crumble. If they survived, they'd need a huge emergency funding lifeline to cover paying back all the carbon credit money.
Phone key is an awesome idea, approach the car, driver door unlocks, get out of the car and car lock itself. Fail ratio is 0.01% on Tesla.
Lost your phone or it is stolen - get in touch with Tesla or your wife and she can unlock your car remotely and let you drive home. Can you do that with lost Car key? Can you find a dealer that will cut you a key Sunday 7 PM so you can get home from your trip 500 miles away?!?! Doubt it and it will cost you pretty money too. Tesla card that I would recommend to carry as a back up cost $25 and you can program to your Tesla on your own. But hey you can loose your wallet too
No other EV has good charger network integration with the vehicle, and if they do they route you to Walmart lot where those charging stations are off line. With Tesla if it sees that supercharger location is busy or offline it will give you other options, you will never run out of juice. For other brands you need to use PlugShare and Charge point apps to get proper status of chargers and plan your route separately from build in map.
I would not say it about Munro 100% Tesla bias, I watched very good reviews on EV Mustang and EV Genesis from him and his team. I love Genesis EV60 but it is $70K with 230 mile range in my view not worth it. Model Y without incentives is $49K 330 mile range and even at that price point Tesla is making profit.
Based on the graph below if other cars are so much better. Why Tesla outsells all of them combined?
People know it has quality issue but still go for it. I doubt it is incentives only.
EV Mustang has those incentives too and actually a very nice vehicle. I rode in one and was very impressed with quality and ride.
Elon took all the incentives he could. I think California was the biggest contributor to his success. But again the whole market was betting against him for years. and still there are people like Bill Gates short Tesla stock. So his road to profit was not as easy as you described.
To me the whole Government incentive thing is BS. I do not need to subsidize people who can afford to buy $50-70k car, and continue subsidize their electricity, road infrastructure after that. Very few states actually charge EV registrations more than regular cars.
I also agree that GM should refund all Government bail out money they received but you and I know it is not going to happen.
