The Complete Guide to Buying a Used Tesla
An honest, up to date used Tesla buying guide covering every model. Hardware versions (HW3 vs HW4), what to check, and the 2026 suspension investigation.

An honest, up to date used Tesla buying guide covering every model. Hardware versions (HW3 vs HW4), what to check, and the 2026 suspension investigation.

Slate’s pitch is a $24,950 electric pickup made in Indiana that has crank windows, no touchscreen, and does the specific things a lot of drivers actually need a truck to do. Whether you buy one depends on how comfortable you are with the idea that a car doesn’t need to include everything by default.

The Polestar 3 is one of the most polished electric SUVs on the road. It also happens to be the one you’re about to have a hard time buying new. Here’s why I’d still take it seriously.

Buying a used EV for the first time? Learn how to check battery health, get the right inspection, verify warranties by VIN, and plan charging before you buy.

Before the Taycan, the conventional wisdom was that electric cars were appliances. Quick in a straight line, sure, but soulless. Silent transportation for people who cared about the planet more than the drive. Then Porsche released the Taycan in 2019, and the automotive world had to quietly revise its opinion. Here was an EV that…

There is nothing subtle about the Escalade IQ, and that’s the entire point. This is a full size electric luxury SUV that weighs more than nine thousand pounds, produces up to 750 horsepower, travels a Cadillac-estimated 465 miles on a charge, and costs about as much as some people’s homes. It is enormous, extravagant, and…

Almost every car gets bought with the head. Buyers weigh the range, the price, the cargo space, the charging speed, and the reliability ratings, then make a sensible decision. The Volkswagen ID. Buzz throws that entire process out the window. This is a vehicle you buy with your heart, and Volkswagen knows it. The ID….

Every so often, two cars arrive that exist in a rarefied world almost none of us will ever shop in, and yet they’re absolutely fascinating to compare, because they represent two nations’ answers to the same audacious question. What should the ultimate electric luxury car be? Rolls-Royce answered with the Spectre, a hand built British…

Here’s a sentence almost nobody expected to write a few years ago: the quickest production Subaru you can buy is electric. Not the WRX, not the BRZ, not some hopped up STI. It’s the Trailseeker, a rugged, roof rail wearing, adventure ready electric SUV that happens to sprint to 60 mph in a rapid 4.4…

Most three row family SUVs are built around a simple, sensible mission: carry seven people and their stuff in comfort, get decent fuel economy, and never, ever attempt anything more adventurous than a gravel parking lot. They are appliances, and mostly good ones. The Rivian R1S looked at that entire category and decided to do…