Owning a production EV used to be a hyper-exclusionary "club." Not made exclusive by the *members* but by the availability of the cars, of course. 20 years ago, we all knew each other. The handful of us EV1 drivers, became the handful of Rav4EV drivers. When the cars started being sold, the whole group would know who was selling and who was buying. The old Rav4EV group continues today... with a couple hundred of the cars still in operation. It is one of the tightest communities I've ever been involved with - both online and offline.
Fast-forward to today (when all those EV1 and Rav4 owners are now Tesla owners... many still in roadsters!). Owning my 5th EV in 20 years, and now the "club" is ENORMOUS (though the old guard can still be found..). A totally different feel. But the part that remains the same is the core belief that we don't actually want to be exclusive, and that mass ZEV adoption is the goal. Of course as the owners' club inches closer to merely being a cross-section of our society, we'll more commonly find the grumpy people who look for nothing but the things to complain about, and drag others down. But for the most part, the help found on the Tesla forums is fabulous, and certainly appreciated by this "new" Tesla owner.
(And yes, that's the other odd part for me: Our family's main vehicle for 20 years has been an EV. I've had five different chargers (well, first chargers, now EVSEs) mounted on the wall. The EV was the daily-driven car, and really all we've known for a long time. And now I find myself as a total Tesla newbie, and it is amusing to hear some assumptions that I must be new to EVs if I'm just now buying my first Tesla)