#1. At this time there is no BEV that meets all of our driving needs. We'd have to own, or rent, an additional vehicle for road trips and hauling stuff, which we are trying to avoid.
#2. The Osbourne effect: who knows what the resale value of any BEV will be in 5 years? I don't.
#3. The testimonies of Tesla owners that I have seen on the Internet were IMO too subjective, focusing on the benefits while deemphasizing the negatives.
#4A. We live in a suburban home with 240VAC, 100 amp service, but we might be moving to a condo in the next few years .... if we are blessed with a BEV at that time, it would have an undue influence on our choices for a new home.
#4B. We do have power outages once in a while, which is when our ICE car could serve as an emergency power source, while a Tesla might be incapacitated and become a burden instead of help.
#5. The cost of insurance and repairs, I am hearing, is much higher than most people would imagine.
#6. The nearest Tesla service center is 1 hour (more like 1.5 hours in peak traffic) and 3 counties away.
#7. As we are discovering, one never really 100% "owns" a Tesla in the same way we own let's say one would own a Toyota or Ford. Mothership Tesla, IMO, exercises too much OTA
control over what should be "my car" after I buy it. Yes, I know it's all for optimizing my ownership experience