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.
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Rivian R2 vs. Tesla Model Y: Same Price, Opposite Personalities
The Rivian R2 Performance and the Tesla Model Y Performance carry the exact same $57,990 sticker, and once each company adds its destination and order fees, the out the door totals stay within a rounding error of each other. So the money can’t settle this one. The cars have to speak for themselves. And these…
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Tesla Just Taught an Old Brain New Tricks. Here’s What FSD v14 Lite Actually Means for HW3 Owners.
If you’ve been driving an HW3 Tesla for the past year, you know exactly what it feels like to watch everyone at the table get served while you’re still waiting on your order. HW4 owners kept getting shiny new FSD updates. You got to watch. That’s a rough place to be when you paid for…
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Cadillac Lyriq vs Rivian R2 vs Tesla Model Y: Three Very Different Takes on the Electric SUV
The midsize electric SUV is where most of America actually shops, which is why it’s the most crowded and competitive corner of the whole EV world. Three of the most interesting choices come at the same buyer from completely different angles. The Tesla Model Y is the best selling EV in the country, the efficient,…
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Ford Mustang Mach-E vs Tesla Model Y: The Challenger That Actually Stuck Around
When the Ford Mustang Mach-E arrived in 2021, it did something genuinely bold. It borrowed the most famous name in Ford’s history, stuck it on an electric SUV, and went straight after the Tesla Model Y, the best selling EV in America. Plenty of Model Y challengers have come and gone since then, but the…
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Tesla Cybertruck vs Rivian R1T: Two Trucks That Threw Out the Rulebook
Most electric pickups try to look like the gas trucks people already know, just with a plug where the fuel door used to be. These two did the opposite. The Tesla Cybertruck showed up looking like it drove out of a science fiction movie, a wedge of bare stainless steel with straight lines and no…
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Tesla Model 3 vs Mercedes-Benz CLA Electric: The Benchmark Meets the Luxury Challenger
For most of the last decade, if you wanted an electric sedan, the conversation started and ended with the Tesla Model 3. It defined the category, built the charging network everyone else now borrows, and sold in numbers nothing else could touch. Challengers came and went, and most of them quietly went, the Model 3…
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Tesla Model Y vs Hyundai Ioniq 5: The Best Seller Meets Its Toughest Challenger
If you’re shopping for an electric SUV in America, you’re almost certainly looking at the Tesla Model Y. It’s the best selling EV in the country, the default choice, the one everyone else gets measured against. But the car doing the most measuring, the one that keeps landing on the same shopping lists right next…
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Farewell to the Tesla Model S and Model X: The Two Cars That Changed How the World Saw Electric Vehicles
Some cars sell well. A rare few change what people believe is possible. The Tesla Model S and Model X belonged firmly in that second group, and now, after production wound down in 2026, they’re gone. Before they fade into the rear view mirror, I want to spend a little time on why they mattered…
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The 2026 Tesla Cybertruck: The Truck From the Future That the Present Wasn’t Quite Ready For
There has never been a vehicle quite like the Tesla Cybertruck, and depending on who you ask, that’s either the highest praise imaginable or a gentle way of saying please put it back. It looks like a child’s drawing of a truck rendered in brushed stainless steel. It arrives at stoplights like a prop that…
