Being a Poor Tesla Fanboy…

Both literally and figuratively

James Crawford
4 min readMar 29, 2020

Every weekday involves a mostly-awakened self getting into his fossil-fueled Dart and heading to/from work in Northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. However, the last one to two years also included Tesla/EV (Electric Vehicle) related podcasts filling myself with hopes of someday owning a Tesla/EV:

Photo by Jannes Glas on Unsplash

Sadly, these “hopes and dreams” are still a couple years off. Even to get a used Tesla in our good ol’ Canadian dollars involves an investment above $40,000. My dreams aren’t dying yet though…

Exciting EVs to come

Here’s some EVs (aside from the Tesla Model Y and Pickup) I’m looking forward to:

  • Lightyear One (plus a potential SUV they might start on years down the road)
  • Rivian R1T (I mean… this is a really promising electric pickup truck)

Tesla, Rivian, and Lightyear are the ones I’m keeping a close eye on. Why? Tesla is leading the way. Rivian? Their accepted investments and partnerships with Ford and Amazon are exposing more and more people to the realism of electric vehicles. Lightyear? Embedded Solar Panels within an…

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James Crawford

Just a simple Christian/IT/techie/gamer that also loves to jam away on his guitar. Oh, and I sometimes write stuff here.