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45,000 miles. The War against EVs continues....

Big bad review of Model X. WTF! As I get close to 45k miles... zero problem, zero issues, flawless machine that gets me from A to B inside something expressed as a suitable vehicle for the 21st century, not the 20th, I cannot fail to not notice the war taking place against EVs. I don't even  have FAST DC, just level 2. I don't have access to Tesla's fast chargers and need to spend a cool 4 hrs charging up... but one adapts, and ultimately enjoys being able to charge up from anything like a 110v wall outlet plug to a shopping mall to their place of work. Indeed as the market reach of BEVs (pure electrics, not the poseurs half baked like plugins or "hybrids" which companies like GM want us to mix up with crossovers between SUVs and cars) gets close to the 1% mark, the fossil fuel lobby realizes the dreaded deadly danger they represent in ANY significant quantities. BEVs privileges are scaled down dramatically just as Elon Musk mentions the stupidity of doing it for