I let people borrow my EV when I’m out of town for this simple reason. Slowly convert the masses haha

The plural of anecdotes isn’t data.

Secondly because they’ve bought into the brand. I remember when Tesla workers were replacing a mount in the front end with wood/cardboard and plastic straps because of supply chain issues and forums were praising them for being critical thinkers… Not complaining that a critical mount was being replaced by inferior materials.