I'm in a texting group of mechanical engineers. Every one of us is a gear head; we all drove and tinkered with classic muscle cars in high school and well, here we are decades later.

We're all still gear heads. And engineers. Who measure things and assess value and compare all the time...to a fault.

Several of us have owned, or do own, EVs. Not a one drives a Tesla, nor are any even considering them.

There's three primary reasons - quality control, the insistence on the touch screen as the only point of interface (and we all know it is lousy and consumers do not like this), and safety deficiencies borne of the insistence on using cameras instead of LIDAR and/or radar.

That is all starting to catch up. Even if this was a company turning out marvelous EVs like those that show up on Car and Driver's best of lists, their valuation is absurd.

Hard pass - on the cars, and on the company.