I've always wanted easily shareable, digestable pieces of content for anyone I run into that is still skeptical of buying a Tesla. This is easily one of my favorites The following are real quotes from someone who was a lifelong enjoyer of engines, V8s, track days and fast cars who was never a fan of Tesla. But after being encouraged to test drive one, he ended up buying one and the following is what he had to say: "It's not me preaching, I'm not some Tesla guy, I'm literally trying to throw people a lifeline, I wish someone would have told me sooner" "I feel like I'm so enamored, so impressed with these things, that's why I'm making these videos" "EVs are roughly 80% efficient. Gas cars are about 25% efficient. So every $5 you put in gas, right, $1.25 is actually pushing you forward. The other $3.75 is turning into heat, noise and friction." "The combustion engine is basically a heater that manages to make forward motion. 75% of what it produces is heat, noise, and friction. The other 25% is actually forward motion." "So the efficiency numbers were mind-blowing, and then on top of that, knowing the fact that these things are actually charging themselves as they slow down, the inverter reverses, and so basically, instead of just kind of pushing energy out, it basically converts that motion into energy and re-charges the battery. I mean, that is superior technology, and I had no idea they did this." "I'm trying just to show people what these things really are, how fast they are and how efficient they are, as well as the fact that how luxurious they are." "Imagine a car, a gas car, that every time you slow down, number one, you don't have to hit the brakes. It applies the brakes for you, and as it applies the brakes for you, it's filling the gas tank for you as it slows down. Every single time you slow down or come off the gas, that's what this thing does." "What I have to get into is how fast this thing is. This thing would smoke my ZL1 off the line. There is no way that the ZL1 would be able to keep up with this thing. Not even close." "It's amazing how nice the interiors are on this thing, and the freaking thing drives itself, man. It's unbelievable. You can have a car that drives itself. That's another thing I didn't know about these damn things, is they drive themselves. That's insane." "The compromise with our V8 cars and our performance cars, you guys, it's always this crazy maintenance cost, fuel, oil, you know, reliability. There's so many issues with these modern cars nowadays. It's insane. So this is kind of a, just a little bit of a rescue, man, just an escape from all of that garbage." "So the cool thing is you can program these things to charge only from 11 to 5 a.m. or 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. so that you get the cheapest rate. So imagine being able to, I don't know, tell your car or tell yourself, I'm only going to go to the gas station when the gas is one-quarter of the maximum or is like one-third of the maximum. That's insane. We don't have that option, and that's not a luxury. That's like a different universe. It's a different relationship with fuel and the expense that you have to pay for the car." "The OEMs right now that are making gas cars are getting squeezed by these environmental regulations so much that they're being forced to build shit. Cars that are overly complicated...they're not as reliable as they used to be. There's an insane lack of reliability that we're all seeing easily over the last five to even ten years." "There are one hour test drives through Tesla. All you have to do is you have to go to the Tesla app, pick the model that you want, click on the model and you'll see right under it, it says schedule a test drive."