Few cars can claim to genuinely have changed the world but the Tesla Model S is one of them. It was not the first electric car by any means – there had already been many experimental and also some mass-production EVs by the time the Model S arrived in 2012, including Tesla’s own Roadster. But it was the first truly premium electric car, and it proved it was possible for one to go fast and far, and be truly desirable at the same time. If the Toyota Prius was the eco car every celebrity had to be seen in to show they cared about the environment in the 2000s, by the 2010s, it was this.
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