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Congratulations and enjoy. I hope it was worth the wait.

Should have bought a Tesla.

So it is. Poor guy having to charge at 50kw. He'll be there all night.

Fort William is a fair old drive from Edinburgh and there are loads of tourists there already. We need to attract tourism in the Highlands and V3 superchargers are a good start.

Picture of son's white MX next to a Taycan charging at Fort William.

Why not? It's a long way to the next one. It's OK for you guys in the south who are drowning in superchargers. Anyway my son was there today in his MX and could only get a slower charge because Fort William is not on the map yet and he didn't get preconditioned.

Interesting poll. It would seem that almost twice as many Tesla users use Apple rather than Android and Andriod seems to give more problems. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of Android users by version, age and Make of phone. I have a Galaxy S10+ and listed myself as no problem...

If you're getting your new car in the new quarter you will probably be OK. Cars are being rushed to get delivered before the end of September for stock market purposes. I got my blue M3LR on 18th August. Car was pretty well perfect. Because of all the recent posts I keep looking for faults but...

Not a chance. See my other post.

I had a timeshare in Dalfaber village next to Aviemore from 1983 until about 4 years ago. It was originally owned by Barratt the builder and was really very good. We had many enjoyable holidays until the administration was bought by MacDonald Hotels. Bit by bit the owners were screwed. The golf...

That's a game changer. I didn't realise that. I wonder if I can get it to work with my wife's Kona?

Conclusion is ev.energy is fine for what is needed. TeslaFi is even better but is not free. I have 3 more weeks to get addicted to TeslaFi and the masses of data before I have to pay but will probably just use ev.energy.

Thanks for all the help. I think I am organised now. I very much enjoyed the Kona last winter where I could get into a warm car with a full battery and ready to go. I think I can manage it now with the Tesla.

I see. I have been setting car ready for 4.30 to stop it charging. If I set it to be ready for 7am it won't heat at 4.15am and it won't charge after 4.30. I'll give it a try. I thought that by specifying 7am ready it would override Octopus Go settings

I don't want the car and battery heated at 4.30am.

Thanks! Got it. That seems ideal.

Yes activated it.

The ev.energy account is pretty close but it asks me when I want the car ready for when I set the stop time. It then heats the battery and car to be ready for 4.30am. I don't want that. I only want it switched off before the energy becomes expensive. I have it set up for Octopus Go and a simple...

Is that TeslaFi account or Tesla account or ev.energy account?

Update: Thanks for everybody's input. I have got ev.energy working and with a little effort it starts and stop charges as required. Only problem is combining with a departure time. Not a game changer because I can do that manually. I had started the trial of TeslaFi but felt it was overkill...

We have a M3LR and a 64kw Kona and only one charger in garage. We use Octopus Go and the vast majority of the time we top up to 90% on alternate nights. If one car needs a big charge quickly we can use rapid Charge place Scotland for free. We thought about 2 charging pods but after a while...

Another positive review of Edinburgh. Any more?

Good point.

I think in sport mode with AWD the Kona would be pretty close to the rear wheel drive M3. With FWD there is a massive amount of power going to waste or if not sending you into a ditch. At first the M3LR felt strange putting the foot down and not going all over the place.

Agreed. Torque steer and wheel spin are horrific until you are prepared for it. Had the car for a year with no problems whatsoever other than a little rattle near the front 12v inputs in the past few weeks. Fixed it with a piece of paper. I had an Ioniq plug in for 3 years before the Tesla and...

Thanks for your help. I have been back on ev.enegy this morning and am making some headway. I seem to have got charging at cheap rate set up so all I need to do now is to remember to set climate control before I leave. The app had lost my address and yesterday it thought I had charged at a place...

Kona is primitive in the technology department compared to tesla in all other departments. There is no app although there may be one in 2020 models? You have to set it up in the car but it will continue like that every night until you change it. Our Kona is the 64kw premium SE. Not sure about...

I wonder if this is an Edinburgh thing. I got a M3LR 4 weeks ago. My son got a MXLR in April. We both used Edinburgh and were delighted with the staff and service. Both cars were pretty well perfect on delivery. I tried hard to find something wrong having read horror reviews but could only find...

It's similar to setting alarms on a Samsung phone.

Sorry for delay in answering. Kona has a timer section with 2 separate parts. 1. Is charging. Set time on and off. Then selelect days of week or exclude weekends etc. 2. Is departure time. Same thing; select days of week or weekdays or all week. Car is cosy and set to go at the appointed time...

I truly get all your points. I realise I can accomplish everything with some inconvenience and a better memory than I possess along with some arithmetical ability. My point is that the comparatively primitive technological Kona does it all automatically out of the box. I live in Scotland and...

OK Many thanks. I'll try next week.

Just tried ev.energy again. Couldn't connect to charger and listed my last charges at several locations I have never been to. I think it needs a Zappi or OHME or perhaps Tesla has blocked it as well as TeslaFi.

Thanks. Perhaps I should give it another try. The main problem is getting the car prepared in the morning in spite of stopping charge at 4.30. Winter is coming.

Ev.energy is really not great. I got Teslafi to do what I wanted but it is far from as neat as the Kona. Also I understand Tesla is now blocking 3rd party apps. Let's get this in proportion. The Kona doesn't even have a phone app. The Tesla can drive itself, do wonders with sentry mode and lock...

I want to charge up till 4.30 because it is cheap until then but don't want to leave until 8.30

That is my point. It should be surely.

I get all your kind replies and have tried and failed to get the car to charge between 12.30 and 4.30 AND be ready for departure at 8.30 without getting out of bed or remembering to set departure half an hour before I leave. The Kona will do that by itself all week without any intervention other...

I tried that but when I set departure at 8.30 it didn't start charging until 4.30am even though I had stipulated 12.30. I didn't notice until I looked at my smart meter. When I got the tesla I could not believe it wouldn't do a simple on/off task.

My wife has a Kona EV and I have a M3LR. We charge with a Rolec charger on Octopus Go. The Kona is a joy. You only put in start charge at 12.30 and stop at 4.30 and ready to leave whenever you want. Hey presto the car is charged at the right time, stopped at the right time and ready to leave at...

Many thanks to Tom for using my code. I hope smart tarrifs prove to be as useful to you as they have to me.

I should have said that I did a hard reboot with instant success and zero problem since then.

Same with me. I did a reboot and all is well now.

With the new Feed in tarrifs I don't know how long break even is. I get about 26p/unit Fit and it took me 8 years to break even, although I didn't count what I was saving in electricity during the day. I don't bother with charging either EV when it's sunny. Not really worth it because the most...

You go to Octopus website. Apply for Account with them preferably through referral code. Mine is on my profile if you need it. They do the rest within a couple of weeks. While you are waiting apply for smart meter and Octopus Go. You should be up and running within the month. I have had Octopus...

I had the same problem with Direct Line. When I got my policy through, Autopilot was listed as a modification. I phoned and had a terrible job explaining that it wasn't a modification. In the end they decided to leave it as a modification and gave me the discount. Much safer to phone and make it...

Card took 2 weeks for me after I sent a nagging email. I don't think you should have vandalism problems in Kingussie. It's not 3rd world. If you are stuck there are chargers including Tesla Superchargers in Aviemore only 13 miles away.

Me too!

I got the same email and I wasn't really keen to sign 2 weeks ago. I phoned and was reassured that the only thing that changed was pick up would be speedier. I signed anyway. I picked up the car this morning and I spent quite a lot of time checking it. I could only find one very minor issue...

Wow! It's fantastic. Can't find any problems.