Had a 2019 Jaguar i-pace for HSE for 2.5 years as my company car. My boss has a Tesla X, 2017 which he bought when 18 months old, so about the same time i got mine. Both of us petrol heads and we do compare notes. My Jag is best car I have ever had and it will be replaced with same when up for renewal, unless another manufacturer comes up with something better, but it will definitely be another EV. My boss loves his Tesla, but both of us are honest about strengths and limitations.
All electric cars have outstanding performance compared to their petrol/ diesel equivalents and frankly some of them are quite scary as they have such performance that they skip down the road when you put your foot down. Seems to be the ones that were effectively conversions of a petrol car and/or have petrol diesel equivalents have most issues. Ipace has all the batteries in floorpan so very low centre of gravity and goes round corners like on rails - not sure whether McRae is specifically referring to a Model 3 as I have never driven one, but that it not my personal experience of my Ipace.
Tesla has best private charging infrastructure for long journey and their cars charge much quicker than almost all competition except Audi e-tron which is similar Speed of charge is as important as range if you do lots of long journeys. The public charging structure poor by comparison to Tesla's, and you do have to be patient with and EV and plan ahead and have a contingency plan on a long journey. But I regularly do a 350 mile trip between Northumberland to Somerset and so long as I leave with a full charge and plan charging stops well I can get there with about 50 minutes to an hour of charging across the journey (which is what I would do taking regular comfort / coffee/ food breaks. You have to change mindset if you own an EV and change expectation that you can just jump in and go and treat the journey like a timed race with bragging rights as to how quick you got there. If you are mainly doing the daily commute, this limitation just doesn't matter.
I-pace is top build quality, Tesla is poor. e.g. My boss stripped his dashboard out and rebuilt as soon as he bought the tesla at 18 months old because he couldn't stand the rattles. I have never driven a Tesla, but went to showroom when Model 3 first came out build quality seemed Lada circa 1990s to me. This is the reason why I never even bothered with test driving a Tesla - I just couldn't get over their cheap look and feel.
Also, I found monthly lease costs on Tesla to be 30% more that like for like (i.e. same list price).
EVs are incredibly tax efficient as a company car. The income tax I pay this year as a benefit in kind is £30 a month. Last car I had was a Outlander PHEV and when that went my monthly income tax bill was £450 a month. (Half these amounts for lower rate tax payers)
EVs only serviced every 20K and service costs £100-200 a time.
All in costs of EVs are cheaper than petrol/diesel despite the press that likes to think otherwise as they only seem to look at day 1 list price.
You really need to go and sit in a Tesla and check out the build quality and take it for a test drive. Only way to tell if it is for you. Plus check out other competitor EVs for comparison.
Paul