Tales of a Tesla in Tampa

For Tesla owners in the Tampa Bay area, owning a Tesla often means a Wawa run... especially if you don't have a way to charge your EV at home.  Filling up an old fashioned gas tank takes less than 5 minutes.  But charging a Tesla can take up to an hour if you're "filling it up" to 100%.   Who has that kind of time?  We live in the instant gratification world of 2023.  Turns out the thing I thought would bug me about owning a Tesla has become one of the many perks.

The 2023 government tax credit comes to an end for the Tesla Model 3 in 2 weeks. Your chance to get a NEW Tesla for $27,500 is going away.  on January 1, the $7,500 electric vehicle tax rebate from the government disappears.  There's no telling if or when it will ever be back. Plus the Tesla I paid $40,000 for last month is now $35,000.
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To PPF or not PPF that is the question.
The question got answered just one month in to owning my new Tesla. I’d watched the YouTube videos with drivers debating the merits of getting paint protection film put on. Was it worth the expense? Spending thousands on PPF seemed unnecessary. Then some flying rocks on the Howard Frankland Bridge heading into Tampa woke me up.

Last month, I drove off the St. Petersburg Tesla lot in my new Model 3. 2 weeks prior, I really had no thought of getting rid of my Toyota Camry. But sometimes what happens in Vegas does NOT stay in Vegas.
At a “fill up” at a Tesla charging station in Las Vegas, 2 things happened.  #1 - I learned the car farts. The other reason I'll get into in Episode 1.
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