EV Thread

[Explosive Newt]

Tesla are adding £3750 to any trade-in at the moment as an incentive. It does make the prospect of upgrading to a long-range AWD quite tempting.

(wall charger still broken btw, waiting to hear on warranty claim)

I looked at the trade-in but couldn't pass on the 20k dump on a 2 year old one, albeit before the refresh. Plus trade in was well over 1k lower than Car-point (other alternatives available). My available salary sacrifice really only works if either your in the 60% bracket or don't mind driving a Jaecoo.

Indeed, I have lost a bum-bracing £28k on my nearly 4 year old one.

[Carlos]

Tesla knocking them out at 24x£300 is not going to help existing owners but definitely the way I would be getting one now.

[Rich B]

Tesla are adding £3750 to any trade-in at the moment as an incentive. It does make the prospect of upgrading to a long-range AWD quite tempting.

(wall charger still broken btw, waiting to hear on warranty claim)

I looked at the trade-in but couldn't pass on the 20k dump on a 2 year old one, albeit before the refresh. Plus trade in was well over 1k lower than Car-point (other alternatives available). My available salary sacrifice really only works if either your in the 60% bracket or don't mind driving a Jaecoo.

Indeed, I have lost a bum-bracing £28k on my nearly 4 year old one.

holy moly! £600 a month depreciation is steep!

On a related note, i’m parked next to a Tesla with some truly tragic graphics - he’s somehow managed to clash with the edges of panels on 3 sides and put the Y in the wrong position on his MODELY SPORT. Surely you’d just take it off and tell yourself to do better.

[Carlos]

Tragic, a butchered Renault Sport graphics!

[Jobbo]

Tesla depreciation is heavy for three reasons:
1. Elon
2. Elon reducing the new list prices
3. Elon going for market share so supply and demand for used ones is bumped heavily towards supply

Seems appropriate to post this here rather than in the running reports thread. I’d been wondering if my M5 could actually make it to work and back without the engine starting. It’s 21 miles each way the shortest route (currently - it would be a bit shorter but Severn Trent have closed a road for 3 months which cuts a corner off).

Today I thought I was going to do it - arrived back into our village with 1 mile electric range showing and about half a mile to our drive. Then the engine kicked in. Bugger. It turned off again as I pulled into the drive because the electric range had gone up to 2 miles. The app is showing 274.3mpg for the journey which is lovely but I’d rather not start the engine when I’m a minute from home

EV mode - which I’ve set the car to start off in - does allow you to put your foot to the floor and not start the engine so it is genuinely usable as a pure EV for 41 miles at least.