Prius prime or Model S

Hey, my dad has been thinking about swapping out his 2013 Auris TS and his 82 Firebird for either a 2017 Prius Prime or a 2014 Model S 75D (2014 cause most bugs and faults have been sorted out, 75KW cause its in the middle of 60KW and 85KW, and D cause its dual motor, one for slow speeds at the front and one for the rear wheels at high speed) and im just wondering what u Prime owners think about the prime?

Ive seen its a few people here that got both a Model S and a prime, what made u buy the prime? And how does it compare to the Model S?

Only thing my dad dont like about the prime is the speed, it doesn't exactly react as his Firebird to say it with a huge understatement, with the tesla he gets both almost the speed of the Firebird but also the technology thats in new cars. He have owned his Firebird since 93 so he isnt afraid of driving a car thats about the same size as it either. So yea, we r`nt sure what to go for, we like the Prime`s design, and the fact that it comes with a lot of equipment as standard. But we also absolutely love the Model S, like... everything about it.

Here a 2014 Model S and the 2017 Prime got around the same price tag (40 000USD). So yea... i really dont know, right now we have 3 toyota hybrids, my 2011 prius, my moms 2016 Auris TS and my dads 2013 Auris TS and we have been very happy with them. I know that Tesla comes with 8yr warranty on every major parts like the motors and battery. While the toyota`s have battery warranty for 10 yrs plus one more year is added for every time we take a service at toyota (even tho its really not needed cause the batteries r designed to last so long).

Another pros with the Prime is that the toyota dealership is 20 seconds away from our house, while tesla dealership is 2 hours away, i know that Musk have tweeted recently that they will soon offer to pick up ur car at ur house to take it to the dealership for service, then drive it back). So yea, we just want some advice from both Model S owners and Prime owners so we can finally soon decide on which car we will go for. (only reason i didn't include the Model 3 in this list is because we don't know its price in our country yet)

 

We dont really have range anxiety here in Norway, its one tesla supercharger 12 km from where we live, and tons of normal EV chargers scattered around the city cause we have so many electric cars here. Tesla is dominating the electric car market, with the E-Golf at second place, then the Leaf. Plus norway isnt a big country, we dont have huge long roads like u got in america.

We got a few chargers scattered around yea, telsa supercharging network is still not done here, we only have one telsa charger close to us. But its millions of normal EV chargers here, plus if we did get the tesla we would get a charger installed in our house. My dad dont drive that much, but when he does he want to be comfortable lol. The auris he got now is great, so i will take over his Auris so he can sell my car and his pontiac to get the tesla.
I just feel like its so many more advantages with the tesla, they got great range, they get OTA updates when they find bugs, u can use the phone as the key, the 2014 models comes with AP 1.0. And stuff like that, i know that in USA u got "toyota entune" that can do this sort of stuff, but we dont have that here. Toyota have really cheaped out on the norwegian market when it comes to extra`s.

 

Yea, its alot of EV`s here lol, to bad we got idiot politicians thats taking away the benefits of having an electric car soon... By 2020 there will be no more benefits. Im sure u know Norway is known as the "fee country"? We have fee`s for the fee`s for the fee`s... Then we have over 25% tax on everything (except electric cars tho)... then we have stupid emission laws, we arent a EU country but somehow we still follow all their laws...

Yea, thats what we r leaning on lol, its also more practical than our Auris actually.

Yea, thats what we r doing now, we r leaning on the tesla now, cause of the tech and practicality.

yea, i know, my prius has gone 210 000 miles and my dads auris have gone 150 000 miles and no issues what so ever. Ive never heard of major things happening to Tesla`s tho? They come with a 8yr warranty for major parts, plus here in Norway we dont have 3 yr "factory warranty", we have 5yrs.

It is, its cheaper cause it passes barriers for free, charging is free at some places, insurance cost goes down dramaticly, EL cost way less then fuel here, fuel is up to like 2 dollars per Liters now... which is INSANE, we r supposed to be this rich oil country but somehow we pay more than anyone else when it comes to fuel... But yea, electricity cost shouldnt go up from what it is now, cause atleast 45% of Norways electricity is pure waterpower. We also have free parking for electric vehicles at most places, the yearly road tax we have to pay isnt a 140 dollars on electric cars, but 45 dollars. Service on electric cars is also cheaper. Plus u dont have to pay to bring ur EV onto ferries while u have to on fuel cars. (the free charging will soon be gone tho, but if we get a tesla we dont have to worry about that, cause we wont buy one that doesnt have free supercharging, tesla will by 2020 have doubled the amount of superchargers and they will all by ran by pure solarpower. The ferry benefit and the barrier benefit will soon dissapear tho) Norway do got the best Electric car politics in the world, i just hope our politicians dont ruin it. Our politicians arent the smartest knives in the drawer...

 

Yea i have lol, he is like Norway`s go to person for questions about electric cars.

 

No concept of money? lol, its 2 times as expensive to live here then in USA, we have insanly high taxes for example, and our oil found is sadly getting misused by our dumb politicians. Believe me, we have a good concept of money, the problem is that the people do not got control over where the taxes and stuff end up.

Ahh well... Norway isnt like that, we have so many charging stations and we have as of right now the best EV politics in the world. Plus Tesla is making loads of supercharging points all around Norway now, it just takes time to get them done. But yea, for charging we would just charge it at home, it takes my dad 2 months to use up the fuel in his Auris, so we wouldnt need to charge more then once a week for like 3 hours on a regular charger. I think the most we drive in one go is like 100km, nothing more than that. Plus yea, as i said, we have alot fo normal charging stations scattered around.

From what ive seen here there isnt any problem when it comes to services, there is 3 Tesla`s in just my street and loads other where i live. So ill ask the neighbours where they take services and that, I think KIA and NISSAN helps Tesla with doing service on them here so we dont have to drive for 1 hour just to get to the dealership (even tho that wouldnt really be a problem either if we had to), the easy things such as brakes isnt any problem, i know stuff about cars since i went one year on the "car mechanic path", but i switched from that path over to industrial design on college. Plus my dad is a mechanic beside being a captain in the norwegian Air force and have worked as a mechanic on cars since 2007. So yea, ordernary stuff wont be an issue.