Five reasons I can’t go back to a normal luxury car after driving a Tesla (and 3 things I wish Tesla would do better)

The Tesla Model 3 has been my daily car for the last 3 years and while it’s great, I was really looking forward to driving a luxury German SUV on a recent holiday (Audi SQ5). Things didn’t go the way I thought they would…

Raffy Halim
5 min readJun 27, 2022
Photo by Vlad Tchompalov on Unsplash

While I have been a fan of Tesla and my own Model 3 since I got it, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to driving a luxury European car. The Model 3 is minimalist…and can feel a bit basic, especially compared to the “wow” factor that comes from getting behind an Audi SQ5!

My enthusiasm for the diminished quite rapidly after I realised that the little things that Tesla offers has gotten me so accustomed to the features that I don’t know if I can go back to a non-electric vehicle or even one from a different brand. So, these are the things I missed the most in my 2 days driving the Audi.

Navigation

Most cars have built in GPS and it’s been a while since I used anything other than the Tesla built in Google Maps or Navigation on my phone. Given how cool the UI looked in the Audi, I thought I…

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Raffy Halim
Raffy Halim

Written by Raffy Halim

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