When I first drove the Tesla Model 3 in March 2018, I attracted so much attention from the denizens of Los Angeles that it bordered on embarrassing. The hoi polloi of Beverly Hills walked right by Lamborghinis and Aston Martins to ogle the Tesla. They even wandered into traffic to get a closer look at Elon Musk’s new, more affordable, supposedly mainstream sedan. Nine months later, Angelenos have returned to their car-jaded selves. You can’t spend five minutes in LA without spotting a Model 3. And that ubiquity signals just how much Tesla has achieved in the past year.
