Shortly before cancelling the ID.4, Tesla was trying to beef up their 2022 sales numbers so they offered $3750 off Model 3s and Model Ys delivered by 12/31. That matched what people at the time were thinking the January tax credit would be for Model 3s. The Ys were too expensive to qualify for any credit in January.
One of my coworkers had also placed an order for an AWD ID.4 and tried to order a Bolt EUV to see which would come in first. His family was down to one car but needed two, so he was in more of a hurry to buy than I was. He'd test driven a Model 3 and he liked it but thought it was too pricey. But I guess the end of year sale and the long wait for the ID.4 and Bolt pushed him over the edge and he bought a 2023 RWD Model 3 that happened to be in stock nearby.
A week later, Tesla increased the sales prices to $7500 off and then a couple of days later added free supercharging for the first 10k miles. My coworker offered to drive his Model 3 over to my house and see if would fit in the driveway and garage. It's a foot longer than the Jetta wagon so I cleared out 12 inches of junk from the back of the garage. He came over and was able to fit it in both the driveway and garage and even get in and out without having to climb through the window.

He was talking up the advantages of the
LFP battery that was now being used in the RWD Model 3, which can be charged to 100% regularly and is supposed to have a much longer lifespan and doesn't contain cobalt and nickel. The Model 3 also has a heat pump to improve range in colder weather, which neither the ID.4 nor the Bolt has (I think the Leaf does).
I was already mentally prepared to spend over $40k (before credits) for an ID.4 so the reduced price of the Model 3 was not looking so bad compared with the price of the ID.4, which was $3k higher than it was back in July. I haven't had a car payment in 20+ years so I've been able to save a lot during that time. With neither the ID.4 nor the Bolt looking like they'd be manufactured for months and neither one being quite what we were looking for, I decided to put a $250 (nonrefundable) deposit on a RWD Model 3. It was initially predicted to be delivered by the end of the year but got pushed back to January 20-30. We had a month to think about it and could always cancel and eat the $250 if we changed our minds.
I'd never considered a Tesla before (never even ridden in one until late last year). They're expensive and a lot higher end than the cars that we've driven up to this point. And Elon Musk is a huge jerk.
But the ID.4 is an SUV and we really didn't want an SUV. The Bolt is ugly but great otherwise - except that longer road trips would require a lot of charging time. Here's ABRP's estimation of a road trip to Atlanta in the Bolt EV:
That's about 2.5 hours of charging each 500-mile day with another 1.5 hour charge overnight in Richmond.
Now we're keeping the Golf, so we could certainly just use the Bolt for 90% of our driving and use the Golf for trips. But that would mean that all of our longer trips would be in a 25-year-old car. And when we take trips in the Golf or Jetta, even though I do a decent job of keeping them in good shape, I carry around some stress knowing that any vacation-ruining breakdown is going to be blamed on me.
Hanging out on the VWIDTalk forum, I've read about a lot of Electrify America charging issues. People aren't getting the charging speeds that they should and a lot of chargers are broken. I had similar issues charging the ID.4 at the Kennebunk ChargePoint on Thanksgiving. 3 of the 4 chargers were broken and I got 50 kW charging speed at the 4th and it took 41 minutes to add 31.25 kWh. The Tesla high speed charging network is a lot more built out than EA right now and they do a better job of maintaining their chargers. If you use the car's built in navigation to get to the next charger, it will make sure that the battery is heated to the right temperature for the fastest charging when you arrive. There's a Tesla service center about a mile from my house, which is a plus.
On January 13, Tesla dropped the Model 3 prices between $3000 and $10000 depending on the drivetrain and options. The AWD long range (supposedly 358 miles) models now were cheap enough to qualify for the federal tax credit so I ended up cancelling my order and ordering one of those that was already locally available. I picked it up 5 days later.
I don't have much driving and charging info to report yet. My daughter brough Covid home from school a couple weeks ago and then my wife caught it and was still testing positive until 10 days later, so we didn't get to drive it anywhere together until yesterday. Yesterday it was 72% charged and we drove it out to this
bookstore ("Books you don't need in a place you can't find") about 82 miles away and returned home with I think 24% charge. It drove great, handled great, no range worries, way more acceleration than anyone needs. Electronics takes some getting used to. It's really weird driving at night, looking through the steering wheel and wondering why all the lighting has failed on your instrument cluster and then remembering that there just isn't one. Haven't installed a home charger yet but my wife can charge at work so no hurry.
Looking forward to some longer trips. I'm headed out to Utica, NY for a weekend in early March. That's about 250 miles away so it'll be a good chance to see how well the charging network works.