As someone who has owned both a VW ID.4 and a Tesla Model Y, i will say get the Tesla, especially if this is your first EV. With your first EV you usually get

As someone who has owned both a VW ID.4 and a Tesla Model Y, i will say get the Tesla, especially if this is your first EV. With your first EV you usually get a case of "range anxiety", and with VW and Kia/Hyundai your "estimated range" usually requires you to use apps on your phone to help you with route planning, as the built in "route planner" is mediocre at best. It will always be a guess as it cannot accurately predict weather/trafic conditions, but with VW the guess can be 30% off or more, and with the older software (2.4) it stubbornly sticks to whatever charge point it originally thought you would get to, despite needing an additional 20% energy to get there. Tesla has route planning down to an art form. On longer road trips, i arrive with +/- 5% of the original estimate. They do this by taking wind direction into account as well as expected trafic, and also considers your normal driving habits. It also dynamically routes you to the "best nearest" charger, meaning it will chose the less occupied charger that is within range. It also warns you when you're about to drive out of range of known chargers. All the time i owned the ID.4 i had some form of range anxiety, but with the Tesla that completely vanished. I know i can trust the navigation, so longer trips these days is simply just plotting in the destination in the navigation and start driving.