It's easy to overstate the impact of alternatives like the Kona without considering the whole Tesla ecosystem and experience and especially the limted availablility of alternative models. Better route planner does show the Kona doing one stop Melb to Canberra but the second leg is at 85km/hr and the total charge time of 1hr 6mins and total trip time of 8hrs 34mins.
My strategy has been to order a SR+ now to support Telsas mission and help accelerate the move to sustainable transport (plus why wait). In a few years time I'll add a MYLR to it by which time I expect battery/charging tech to have substantially increased range with a lower effective price.
Holbrook charger just changed that for the Kona - two quicker stops now (see picture).
I am a massive Tesla fan (queued up overnight, etc) but isn’t helping accelerate the move to sustainable transport about “helping” the other manufacturers move to EV’s as well? Tesla can’t do it alone. So in my mind (and yes I’d rather be buying a Tesla) buying another manufacturers EV shows them there’s demand and makes them make more and more compelling EV’s.
Nissan brought in 650 original Leafs. Then overpriced them and took 4 years to sell them. So they didnt even bring in the second generation. Now Hyundai, Nissan etc are bringing in more EV’s and while still overpriced, but cheaper then Tesla, and they do need to be shown that there’s a demand for other options.