“Carroll is a small town, and we own a small business. I’m the first to own a Model 3, so I’m working at snuffing the misconceptions. The average person thinks that you’re rich because you have one, which is a total misnomer. This was a $54,000 car. I’ve probably averaged three cents a mile to operate the thing. It’s also way more convenient. It only takes a couple days to get in the habit of plugging it in.

Iowa prevents Tesla from operating here. It’s an ethanol, you know, corn state and the dealership lobby has a hold here. So I had to pick up my car in Minnesota. They recently opened a service center somewhere over by Omaha, a couple hours west of us. Knock on wood, I haven’t had any issues to deal with. I had Mobile Service come from Ames to change a door handle that was kind of stuck open.

I have zero regrets. It’s been fantastic—friggin love it.”

“For the first nine months, I didn’t have charging at home, so I would charge it when I was at work—and I own my own practice so I could do that. There are about 10 chargers around here, a few at bed and breakfasts.

There was already a red Tesla in town when I got mine. I took a lot of people on pilot rides just to try it out. Now that there’s quite a few, it seems to be like a brotherhood of Tesla owners. We all kind of wave at each other.

I don’t like gassing cars up. I love the idea of not having to change the oil, of not having a muffler falling off, or any of that. I’m usually a person that has a car that goes from here to there, and I drive it until it dies. So it’s a little off track for me to buy a brand new car, let alone a brand new not-super-cheap car. I’m still making payments, but I don’t regret it.”

“I travel all across the state doing trainings and consulting on trafficking cases. I think I’ve put 45,000 miles on the Model 3 since I’ve owned it and saved $5,000 to $6,000 in gas expenses over the last year. It’s a bigger upfront cost, but if you’re doing less maintenance and you’re saving so much money on gas, it really is a very affordable vehicle.

I’ve traveled a lot on Navigate on Autopilot, and what hasn’t really been talked about is just how good it is getting with all of the nuances of driving. Little things like how much smoother the lane changes are. I feel like in many ways, it’s better right now than a human.

Even my friends from a very rural area that do a lot of farming work that aren’t taking into consideration climate change or anything like that, when they get behind the wheel of this vehicle it’s very appealing. I’ve talked to them about the upcoming Tesla pickup, and one of them in particular talks about how he wants it to look like a normal pickup. But I feel like Tesla is spot on with their designs on all their other vehicles, so I wouldn’t expect anything different from this one.”

“I’m not a Tesla fanboy but I’m a tech fanboy. I remember being a child and thinking, ‘When I grow up, I want to drive a future car. I don’t want to drive a car that looks and feels and sounds and smells like the same car my dad used to drive.’ So as soon as I got into an electric car, that was the paradigm shift.

Stepping into the electric world, I didn’t do it because of Tesla, I did it because of another brand: BMW. I’m very disappointed that BMW did not push the ‘I’ brands as hard as they should have. They seem to be doing it now but a bit too late. I still think BMW, quality-wise, is a better car than Tesla, it’s just that with Tesla you get way more car, way more technology, and way more features for the money.

Since the beginning of the year, the Model 3 is by far the most sold car in Norway. We have a government that really wants to support green initiatives, maybe to compensate for the oil industry that this country lives on that has a big footprint on Earth. I’m not going to say that I bought an electric car because I want to save the world. I know I have a lesser impact when I drive my Tesla, but I’m just passionate about technology. After you try one you can’t drive anything else.”

“The Dodge Challenger, my husband bought, and before that I was driving his giant pickup truck, so I’m gradually stepping down better. I think traditionally more husbands are involved in buying cars, but I think that’s slowly changing. I’ve been watching Tesla since the beginning, and I was like, ‘I’m going to get a Tesla.’

The majority of people who ask me about it are women, and I think women like them just as much. I’m African American, and it might just be because they feel comfortable approaching me, but more and more African Americans approach me about my car, like ‘Ahh, love your car! Is that a Tesla? Ahh I love it.’

I also like going fast. After driving it a few days, the acceleration—there’s nothing better than leaving people at a stoplight. I think maybe that’s it: Library workers are passive aggressive and they like to just floor it.”

“I’ve been in car clubs and I’ve had a lot of different classic cars and daily drivers for 20 years. And it’s rare to have women really interested in the car. That is one really unusual thing about Tesla. There are about 2,500 ladies in the ‘Tesla Divas’ Facebook group. We meet up for mimosas and breakfast occasionally.

You know, I’m trading in a car every three years. I’ve seen a lot of cars, and there is something about this brand that is inspiring a community. The women’s group has a tendency to answer the questions a little more kindly than some of the other groups that surround the Tesla brand. Some of these ladies are pretty rabid—I’ve gotta think Musk’s security team has got to be concerned.

One of the things I absolutely adore about the Model 3 is that I feel like I get a new car about every 12 weeks. I have so many features now that I didn’t have when I bought the car a year ago. Normally, at about a year, year-and-a-half of ownership I’m already scouting out the freeways for what looks good, and I find that I don’t do that with the Model 3.”

“There are tons of Teslas in Atlanta, but like a lot of things in Georgia, once you leave Atlanta, everything drops off precipitously. My only issue here and as I travel throughout the South is there needs to be more Superchargers. Because they are fewer and far between.

People stare at the Model 3. I get a lot of questions about it. Kids get really excited about it, they think it’s like this unicorn that they just haven’t seen before. But a lot of people around here don’t even know that Tesla is electric—they’ve just heard that it’s fast. My husband loves to take people out on rides. One of our friends, we convinced him and he got one 3 or 4 months ago.

There seems to be a lot of misinformation about Tesla, and a real campaign in some ways to put the car down and put the company down. Elon is a character, and a lot of people don’t like him, but people love this car, and I think that’s something that needs to be more widely dispersed.”

“When I first got it, I’d get the thumbs up on the road. I had one guy on a motorcycle chase me down to tell me he liked it. I was doing four or five test drives at work a day.

I’ve driven a lot of very fast cars and a lot of very high performing cars, but the Model 3 Performance is the most fun I’ve ever had in a factory automobile. It’s like a giant go-kart with air conditioning, it’s amazing. It’s not the fastest, it’s not the very best around a corner, it’s just fun. It wants to be driven hard.

I had three different 4.10 Camaro Z28s that I drag raced often in the early 2000s, a 2016 GTO that was the last GTO sold east of the Mississippi with a six speed, a police package Caprice, and a 2008 Corvette Z06 that made 600 horsepower at the wheels and did 10.2 in a quarter mile. I’m a car guy. I will almost certainly have another internal combustion car. But I don’t know that I’ll ever not have an electric car as well.