Not really. The cost of everything from restaurants to groceries has gone up. My wife told me tomatoes have gone up from .99 cents a lbs to $2.99 a lbs

 

the cost of everything has gone up, but not not the cost to fuel those EVs compared to a comparable gasoline car. Especially if the EV is powered by solar.

Suggesting that an electrified fleet of trucks would make it cheaper?



tomatoes $2.49 a pound here. $1.84 per lb at Walmart

 

Summoned an Uber ride earlier this week, the driver arrived in a new EQE 350. Must have been a slow day, as these are generally reserved for Uber Black at premium price.

Interesting car. The interior felt nice and cheap at the same time. Obvious cost cutting in the material, but decently assembled with high precision. The ride was impressive, the car rode with authority, so much better than Teslas that feel worse than Camrys. Very quiet inside compared to Teslas and other cheap EVs that have horrible wind and tire noise. Normal door handles on the inside as well. Generally felt like an actual Mercedes.

I understand they can be leased very cheap, something worth considering.

 

Troll post 4/10. Gotta be more original next time.

 

Of course, anytime someone doesn't simp for Tesla they gotta be trolling. I am just stating my observations, most Uber drivers here are either driving base model Camrys or Teslas, and both of these are equally terrible. The Merc was so much nicer, its not even a comparison.

 

I could see that for the older Teslas. Updated version fix most of what you complain about. Merc should be nicer. Higher price point.

 

Mercedes is definitely going to have a better ride. It better being a luxury brand and twice the price point of a Model Y which is an appliance

 

The Juniper update closed a lot of the gap in terms of ride etc. And the EQE doesn't have the performance of the Y or anywhere close to the on board technology.

 

https://ace.aaa.com/car-guide/2026-car-guide.html

Enjoy!

 

I think Och is just baiting. He's seems to be quite good
at it, so I'd have to say he's master-baiting.

 

lol @ people reading into their bias.

No where did Och say he was in an EQE SUV, so why are we comparing this to a Juniper and referencing the Y's performance. He could have been in an EQE Sedan. Of course he also could have been in the SUV too

I will say that all of us, even the Tesla fans, know what Och is referring to in the old days of the original 3 and Y. Of course, all of those negatives have mostly been fixed with the updates and I do think it is unfair to make a blanket statement about how cheap feeling the teslas are. Though to be fair, there are still a lot of the old 3s and Ys on the uber fleets, so chances are you will get the one with the bad ride and wind/road noise.

 

This is a distinction without a difference. The same points apply to both the Highland and Juniper updates, so it would be the same response regardless of which EQE variation he claims to have been in. And he's absolutely trolling, and continued weak moderation from you and others is enabling.

 

it most certainly matters. People here brought up “twice the price point” and “performance” of the Y. The Eqe sedan is not twice the price of the 3.



as for my moderation, note that just because someone doesn’t share the same views as you doesn’t mean they are trolling. I don’t see any rule breaking nor am I a moderator of carchat. But thanks for that.

 

It was the sedan. I didn't even know there was a sedan and SUV version of the EQE. Either way, Mercedes may have cut costs on the interior, but they know how to engineer a car to ride nice, and even their EV chassis is not compromised in this regard.

Not sure about performance, probably the last thing an Uber driver cares about.

NYC has starting issuing new taxi plates to EVs only a couple years ago, so there are no old Tesla in uber fleet, they are all pretty new. I've been in a bunch of uber Tesla rides, and they all feel cheap, noisy, with econobox ride quality on the level of Prius/Camry. I don't follow Tesla and I have no idea about their updates, I'm just stating my observations. I know my neighbor who's been religiously leasing Teslas has complained that his latest Tesla was cheapened down and even came with awful Kumho tires.

 

Oh geez, I am not trolling, you're just being a zealot now crying for moderators to police criticism of your darling Tesla. Pathetic.