Tesla don't make petrol cars, that's the difference for me. It shits me that they are over complicated. Just make a car, I don't need it to drive itself or come to me from the car park, put all that money into improved quality. I'd still have one if I was planning to spend that much on a car.
Pretending that only Tesla has the kind of issues being discussed and that they happen to most Teslas is a bit wrong. My VW Golf has this thing where it intermittently turns the volume down when rotating the knob in a clockwise direction. VW at first couldn't diganose it, then they said they updated some firmware, it seemed OK because it was so intermittent. The fix was replacing the entire head unit which they said they would do at one stage but then said the firmware was the fix. It's now out of warranty and the issue still intermittently happens, but never when it went in for service.
Not to mention the money we're going to receive at some point for having had one of their diesel gate cars.
People are quick to jump on Nissan too for the lack of thermal management in the batteries, again there's a presumtion that every Leaf ever ran out of battery capacity too quickly because they don't have cooling which isn't the case. Plenty of them are still working just fine with a bit less range than they used to have, but still enough for 90% of people's actual transport needs. It's a battery pack, not a magical energy unicorn, they can and do lose capacity. Then they can go on to power buildings.
If we're gonna talk about biases, maybe we can address the ones around petrol cars being a better option because of trim quality or battery degradation, so let's wait for them to make electric ones?
The most disappointing thing to me is that conversions aren't and won't be a big thing because they are too difficult and costly. So everyone has to get a new car in order to go electric.