Yup, you need the buy-in of your wife or partner for any decision, and I understand why you chose the car you did. In my case, my wife loves both the Model Y L and Zeekr 7x. We just test-drove the YL a few days ago, and are going to re-test the 7x this Saturday. For me the calculation is the 10+ year reliability, surety, and usability of the car, and in that respect the Tesla wins hands-down over any relatively short history Chinese EV. My wife reads all the facebook groups of owners of all these cars and all the Chinese brands have more complaints, software glitches, crazy wait times for parts and other things. In terms of parts, this might be the deciding factor. I am very concerned at all the Chinese brands and how they do model changes, refreshes, every year and half (vs 5-6 years for Japanese & similar for Tesla). For any Chinese car, this means the model you buy today will be outdated severely in five years, and already difficult parts availability will become impossible in 5-10 years (and Chinese EVs might be on the road in Thailand held together by duct tape). And, this is reflected in the recent news showing Chinese auto buyers change EVs every one year and eight months on average as technology and changes are so rapid. I know the Chinese have tried to address this concern by making some models that they consider to be export market models only (like the BYD Sealion 7) and I suppose they will have fewer changes and therefore parts might be available longer, but the China is not a closed place and buyers will soon realize they have an outdated car as they see the new models in China only. Tesla has solved this by design and software perfection. They see no need to change design often, and OTA software updates are mostly flawless. The Chinese have not got this down yet, as can be seen by complaints on the Zeekr facebook groups and youtube in Thailand and Australia by the recent software updates. So, overall, Tesla might still be the most intelligent choice, even though much more expensive.
