We bought a new car. Nothing special, you might say. I’ve owned over a dozen different cars over the years since receiving my first drivers license in 1975. Most of them used, good enough for what I needed, cheap enough for what I could afford. Emotion, or excitement, wasn’t really part of the process. Not even for the one other really new “new” car we bought a decade or so ago.

This time was different. Buying our first fully electric vehicle was a decision made with mostly emotion, and just a hint of reasoning.

I wouldn’t buy a new car to save money.
I don’t believe my personal carbon footprint in an electric car is really that much lower.
I don’t think a Tesla Model Y is the perfect size for roads in Germany.

Now, a car sales person could tell you all about the awesome extended range, the safety of all-wheel drive, the comfort of heated seats and heated steering wheel, the extended warranty….. pretty much any car nowadays – electric or not – boasts all these features, and more.

That’s not why I wanted a Tesla.

I got sold on an idea born in California, developed over the years since 2008, and now (just recently) made right here in Germany. Our Model Y sports a beautiful deep dark red colour called “midnight cherry red”, which is only available in Europe.

And then it has these features, that made me fall in love – and that no other electric car manufacturer deems necessary: it can fart, it can put on a light-show with dance moves, it can be your boom-box, it has camping mode, and dog mode, and Joe mode, it can light a camp fire on the display and colour your roads like rainbows. We named her Angelina, after one of Nikola’s sisters.

Yes, I know, that’s just childish. Suits me.