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This is nuts (if true): https://electrek.co/2024/05/03/read-the-wild-email-tesla-is-sending-to-suppliers-amid-supercharger-chaos/

Forensic scientist

If I was a private buyer I think it would have to be second hand (2/3 years old) and Tesla/established OEM

I wouldn’t buy any new electric car privately to be honest. Mine will be a company car Sal sac lease though (as I’m sure the vast majority are) and therefore if anything like you suggest transpires it won’t be my problem.

Some new reviews out of the Polestar 4 'prototype': https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/polestar/4/361461/new-polestar-4-prototype-review-brands-new-superstar Nice photos included with this article...

Do you know what the per kWh prices are in Europe? The cost of non-tesla fast charging is a joke to be honest. Day ahead electricity pricing is now well below 20ppkwh on uk domestic trackers. I know there is another 15% vat in public charging, but 79ppkw (or more in some case)?!?! It’s...

Thanks - appreciate that. I like the Swedish design and the android operating system doesn’t seem a million miles behind Tesla’s offering. It also has CarPlay wireless built in as standard. Only time will tell…

Ha - thanks! Had a V60 diesel from new before my model 3. Not too many issues over 6 years/180k miles

Just about to press go on a lease for Polestar 4 dual motor plus/pilot for delivery in September/October. Only about £150 per month more than a Model 3 LR in Ultra Red and a fancied something different.

As someone said on the last page, it is impossible to compare the net prices being posted here because there will be a mix of people paying 20/40/45/60% marginal tax rates. Best to post gross figures. My gross payment for a 2021 M3 LR 3yr/60k lease including insurance and tyres etc is £832. I...

Adaptive matrix headlights coming to highland in update: https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/version/2024.2.2/release-notes

The Lincolnshire wolds are actually quite nice…

Boston, Lincoln and Grimsby ought to have SCs

There was 4 of us there charging at 3am yesterday morning!!

One reversed into!?!

A very wet Ipswich this morning. ‘TSG’ working in the green cabinet and everything else looks finished - opening imminent?

The plans show they are planning to build a new 450m2 ‘sales building’ at the chargers

Like the new red - looks very smart.

Does the gross reduction include insurance and servicing/maintenance (pretty much just tyres for a Tesla)? My current salary sacrifice lease gross monthly reduction for a model 3 LR 3 yr/20k miles including insurance and maintenance is £832 - lease started in September 2021.

I had this a few months ago. Did it rain very heavily overnight while it was on charge? Unlike other EVs the model 3 doesn’t have protective caps for the DC receptacles at the charging port. I think water can get in if it is on AC charge in heavy rain. The car then detects that as a breakdown...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/11/13/issa-brothers-petrol-station-empire-ev-charging-deal-tesla/

Never coming to the UK then! 🤣

It’s now a variable tariff so will make no difference whether you wait or not

Our average per kWh cost on IO pre the recent peak price reduction is 14-15p. With the new 30p peak rate I’m expecting the average to fall to around 12p. Approx 20-25% of our use is peak - 20k miles per year in the M3 and we load shift as much as we can into the off peak (immersion heater...

Well that is a much simpler way of sorting it! Thanks for sharing.

So, I managed to get myself moved onto the new variable IO rates this morning. Previously we were on a fixed IO contract due to end at the end of August - the day rate for that was 39p. I rang Octopus and the call handler initially went away and then came back to say that because I was on a...

Did your stolen plates have the green strip on them out of interest? If not, this would obviously make them much more attractive to a thief wanting to attach them to an ICE car to avoid congestion/ULEZ charges.

I’d be paying 62% tax if I was taking my salary sacrifice lease cost as income. I could sacrifice it into my pension but until recently there were lifetime allowance issues - There still might be if we have a change of government next year. Will have to evaluate the situation when the current...

100%. Only the fact that insurance is included in my salary sacrifice scheme and therefore the cost of it is reduced by my marginal rate makes it sensible in terms of cost.

The IO bills also give the average rate you have paid per kWh during the billing period. Presumably if that average rate is less than whatever standard single rate tariff you are considering, IO is the cheaper option? I do quite a lot of vehicle charging (20k miles per year) and load shift as...

I thought IO was fixed for 12 months from date of sign up? Maybe the terms of the tariff have changed over time, but the rates we signed up with last august haven’t changed since. Might be paying more than some with variable rates before August at this rate!

Planning application for service centre and superchargers at Bar Hill has been submitted. Just off the A14 northwest of Cambridge. https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/new-tesla-car-dealership-planned-26441030.amp...

Not as attractive as IO, but thought I would share anyway (or perhaps someone else already has!) https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/charge-anytime

Cheap money has made it possible for all car manufacturers to push up the list price of their cars over many years. Ultimately your average buyer is only willing to pay a certain % of their monthly income on their vehicle and therefore car manufacturers will need to adjust their prices...

I have a M3 delivered Sep 21. Recently my powered boot has not been opening unless I apply slight upward pressure at the same time as pressing the boot release button. Could this be linked to that problem?

St Albans should help with overcrowding at South Mimms

It’s easier just to compare gross and you need to know if the gross quote includes the employer giving back the NI they have saved. I pay £832 gross (full NI reduction included) for a M3 LR midnight grey (no other options) with tyres/insurance for me/wife - car was delivered in September 2021.

My company maintain my pension contributions at a percentage of my basic salary before the salsac is taken into account so no downside for me there. They also put all of the NI back in the pot which reduces the gross salsac. My top slice income is in the 62p marginal rate band - if I wasn’t...

I don’t want to labour the point that others have already made, but that really is eye watering-ly expensive. Leaseloco is currently showing business lease cost on those terms (1+47 / 10k per year) of £600 plus a bit more for your paint option. There is no maintenance, you might do one set of...

I mean, its just bad policy, for a variety of reasons. Slipped in as leaving present by the last labour government and the current shower have done nothing about it for the last 13 years. As a minimum they should have increased the income at which it kicks in in line with inflation but they...

When my company was first exploring this we looked at and discounted OctopusEV due to the pricing. Went with weevee instead. Is your company discounting the cost of the sacrifice by removing the employers NI they are saving? My gross cost for a model 3 LR delivered in September 2021 on a...

Given the recent drop in energy costs that price (75p/kWh) is a rip off. Tesla currently 41p off peak/53p peak at my local charger.

Model Y RWD lease price history on leaseloco….

Yes - our smart meter stopped sending half hour readings at the end of June and only restarted again in November, presumably as result of the firmware update you mention. None of the half hourly readings from July to October have appeared so I recently spoke to Octopus who have now billed me...

Thanks for sharing this. Approval also seems to have been given for upgrade to the network to enable further ultra fast charging provision at South Mimms.

I do about 500kwh of charging per month and we load shift as much as we can into the cheap IO slot(s) - washing machine, HW immersion heater, tumble dryer and dishwasher are all run during off peak slots whenever possible. Our average cost per kWh per month is currently in the 14-16p range...

Perhaps worth giving the MFG fast charging station here a whirl on your next trip? 200 miles from Glasgow - 8 150kw stalls WN6 9RB, Mossy Lea Rd, Wrightington, Wigan

I obviously I don’t know your specific financial circumstances, but I don’t think your calculation is quite that simple. Were you expecting to earn no interest on the £41k if you had left it in the bank? With interest rates as they are today that 41k could have earned 9k in interest over 4 years.

I also noticed this on my car a couple of days go (2021 M3 LR)

Have you got a link to that forum please? I've searched online but cannot find it.