Eh, true enough, but I'm not sure I actually care about any of those things. Do I need to go 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, rather than 4.5? Not really. Supercharging? I always take the big gas guzzler SUV on road trips, much easier. Autopilot? The Jag has auto steer and ACC, as does the Tesla; I expect Tesla's is somewhat better, but until they really can drive themselves, who cares? And I believe real self driving is many years away.
The I-Pace also has advantages over the Model 3:
- Leasing available
- Hatchback
- Android Auto
- 360 degree surround camera view
- Extensive luxury features and options you won't find on any Tesla
- Maybe Jaguar can actually deliver on schedule!
I really like both cars, though they each have their quirks and shortcomings. Had Tesla delivered on its initial delivery timing estimate, or any of the next three estimates they gave me, I'd already be driving a Model 3. Maybe now I'll just wait and see who delivers first.
Whatever suits you. To me sounds like a pretty bad tradeoff, especially when it condems you into taking roadtrips in a legacy gas car that you like now, but may hate soon.
My story:
In 2015 I replaced my VW Jetta with a 2015 VW eGolf instead of starting to pay for repairs for the jetta, which means we replaced our first gas car. My wife liked the Honda Oddyssey more than the Jetta anyways and despite less fuel economy would prefer to drive the bigger car to her longer commute.
We were thinking that road trips we always do in the 7 seater honda odyssey anyways, so the 85 mile range of our 'secondary' electric car wasnt going to bother me at all. We both used to love the Odyssey.
Funny thing is - a few weeks after I started enjoying the eGolf, the Odyssey started collecting dust and me and my wife were competing over who gets to drive the electric car. Obviously that meant in the long run, she was driving the eGolf to the further commute, and I am back to driving the Odyssey to the train station.
Me not having driven the Odyssey in a little while, now had to go back to driving it (you get the idea). I found it to be so unevenly accelerating, shuddering, smelly, that I thought something must have gone wrong with it, after all it was only a 2 year old car! So I brought it in to Honda for service. They checked it all throughout and said: No, everything normal as it should be. Sent me off with a free tank of gas. And I realized that I had just been spoiled by electric driving. Going back to a gas car was like handing in my smart phone for a landline, really hated it. The eGolf was able to remote control the AC, locate the car from the iphone etc, pretty bad in comparison to the tesla app, but better than not having it at all. And performance off the line was awesome.
After a few more months of collecting dust, we finally were trading it in for Model X90D in May 2016. Could not have been happier.Of course my wife is now driving that, and I was back to the eGolf, which I loved much more than the odyssey or the jetta it had replaced, but compared to the tesla.... I was putting in a reservation for the model 3 right after people stood in line, and january 2018 I finally took delivery. Could not be happier, super awesome car, 10 years ahead of what VW has. I also test-drove a Bolt in 2017, which was not bad, but nothing like the tesla. Basically felt like a 2015 VW eGolf with a bigger battery.
So long story short: You will likely regret taking the gas guzzler on a road trip, once you tasted the future.
But to each their own.
PS: 2015 is also when we added 10kW rooftop solar to our home, so filling up the eGolf for free vs spending $50/week on gas for the odyssey croaking around compared to the silent gliding ride of the eGolf was just getting even more annoying.
