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Or wait three years and pick one up for 2 guppy fins and a banana seed..

My S will charge at 21miles range per hour on AC so ten mins is 3.5 miles or not much more than 1%. All that's academic. On the route I was using there wasn't an AC alternate without diverting a few miles so the choice was baby the car and see how much savings could be made and dive to an...

I had a spontaneous DC charger failure a couple of years ago that needed a service centre visit to fix. Again I only found out by trying to charge to top up for return journey and again managed to limp it home where a charging worked. 50mph on the motorway is scary since you're right in there...

The £13..3 is the 20% profit needing a gross take (ex vat) of £66.6 to get it.

Someone prepared to pay the M6 toll...must be a business deductable. Indeed little other reason to go to Manchester..😁 My math...toll charge £8(ish) so after tax when not business @40%= £13.3. my business ran at 20% profitability so £66.6+vat=£80 I had to take off a customer to pay that...

I always carry cleaning stuff and a thermos on any decent journey. Wi-fi should be s no-brainer if only so Tesla can keep track of their charging kit via starlink with enough spare bandwidth for customers. But they want you to buy phone upgrades so where is the incentive?

It all still remains weird. Driver panic etc is easy to understand but the original article states 25 minutes to police bringing car to a halt (quicker response than needing an emergency ambulance for a sick relative 😈). Surely enough time for even the most panicked driver to have figured things...

The example quoted needing as much as 175lbs pressure on the brake on the Toyota. We don't know whether the Ipace would need more or less than that but it's substantial especially if needed for some time to bring the car to a halt plus likely an EV will have a more powerful motor. Many people...

I don't think I'd totally dismiss the drivers version although there may be other factors. I've never been in the I-Pace but had to abandon a test drive of the e-pace my wife fancied because my size 14 feet got wedged under the pedal area making it very difficult to go from accelerator to brake...

Dante gasped when I scored two dozen decodes that <s>

There's a lot of great 4 digit numbers. 1066, 1492, 1665, 1812, 1418, 1939, 4711, 2512, 2001 etc I used to reset the alarm code whenever an employee left and tried to make it easy to remember the new one. Every other or every third digit of a phone number, or an old house number XY(X+!)(Y+1) f'r...

I'd try opening and closing the boot a few times in case the sensor there has gone funny. Coincidentally I used my Qashqai yesterday to go shopping (need to use it regularly to keep battery etc functional) and on way home the alarms started but at least it showed the boot as open. It was...

Except that depends on a leccy supply. Not much use in an outage

I suppose it's expected that in a Tesla forum the fan base would be glowing. Remember the story of the fox that lost his tail and tried to persuade all the other foxes of the benefit of being tailless? It's why I threw in my few pence in similar vein. I live very rurally and keep 200L red diesel...

But the world has moved on! The auto box just needs you to use the brake to stay stationary for short times. This is the same sort of improvements that happened along with no further need for a flag man in front or starting with a handle, hand signals, hammering the b pillar to rattle the little...

The OP makes an error or two. The electric vehicle with a 300 mile range surprisingly drops to 200 miles in the depths of winter which equates with a true range of 100 miles there and again back unless there is a convenient recharge facility en route or at destination and if the additional time...

Make a pot of coffe and leave it to stay warm and it will go grey in 30mins

Most chargers are going to be on their own circuit or sub circuit...so 8f it bothers you trip the switch indoors

It likely costs even less than that until you factor in the build and running costs of gigafactories and showrooms and r&d. Many are fans of the Tesla ethos but I'd be reluctant to own another, Indeed from the sustainability viewpoint I quite like the idea of cars from past eras before all the...

After 4 punctures I always drive with tyre pressures displayed. One reason for not having spare tyres is the number of incidents when folk got wiped out by passing traffic while changing offside tyres on hard shoulder...

Park under shorter trees? 😂 (It might be quicker to reformat?)

You may be an exceptional young person but the reality of your age group in s performance car is frightening. We've been through it and mostly unscathed. But the combination of self belief invulnerability and peer pressure got most of us into trouble we were lucky if we escaped. Heck I was in a...

That's all I need. Another noisy yahoo ruining the peace.!

After several hours on PC and phone I was willing to take any hit...

The trouble with leccy inflators is either stringing wires around. Or finding that after not using it for a while you wait an hour for it to recharge or the blasted rechargeable cells have failed . I have a proper compressor in the barn for normal use and do own both corded and cordless...

There's a lot to be said for a good old fashioned foot pump...

I had DL insurance when I first bought my Tesla in 2018 at a reasonable price. The next year it skyrocketed and I ended up with LV direct for a couple of years. Last year the cheapest quote was RAC, cheaper than LV direct but underwritten by them anyway,! The renewal quote from RAC after my 2...

I'd guess the Chinese were there. Italians just changed the name of noodles to spaghetti...

I'm equating an ev energy per mile with an ice energy per mile. Use petrol to generate your electricity and you won't do much better...

A car doing 0.3wh/mile would be impressive! 🤣 Wikipedia states petrol 33.4? kWh. Us to UK gals X 1.2 = approx 40 kWh. But petrol cars only about 25% efficient so useable power 10 kWh so Tesla equivalent 33.3mpg According to my dubious math

I had a brainfart at a t junction. Watching left and right for a safe time to pull out..pulled out slowly and horror hadn't seen the car dead ahead waiting to turn in. Hit brakes and hardly touched him but the crumple zone on mine did just that. Tiny dent in his wing but front panel, bumper and...

LV via RAC

Another absurd quote. Okay I had a ding this year .my first for 30yrs.. I live rurally and quote has gone from £337 to £2932

Finesse the problem with AA or RAC type cover.

How is the lock mechanism supposed to work? There is a primary and secondary latch as far as I know and a ranger came and checked mine a year plus ago. Presumably the latch system defaults to locked when the car moves? Car shouldn't start if bonnet unlatched? Impossible to open bonnet while car...

Ah! Statistics. Like the actuary that always carried a bomb on the plane with him. That odds of there being 2 bombs kept him safe. Sadly after 30yrd NCD I had my ding before xmas

There's also target fixation when so concentrating on missing something you actually drive into it...

And you think wives are cheap to maintain? 😁

No need to use a proxy tiny phone screen... Stick an android emulator on a PC. Bluestacks for instance

Cheaper to build often means harder to repair = higher insurance costs...

'cept with his 85 S the whole pack can be dropped in 5 mins. Nevertheless ya can see why insurance costs are screaming upwards and will make used cars unaffordable or dirt cheap to be sellable...

And the only reason for that has to be repair costs and delays...

Have burglars git bright enough to carry s blowtorch to melt the laminate interlayers? Can that be done?

There's a chance they're self opinionated enough to think they'll have a functional system in 3 to 4 years when those cars are sold . But until they have 2 to 3 times camera redundancy and a camera cleaning system on board then robot taxis are the pipe dream I got suckered into ..

The troubles with CCTV was highlighted by a few incidents I had. A case of vandalism to wife's car by a group of youths nicely recorded. Police response was 'Do you know who they are otherwise we aren't going to find them'. Not an important enough crime for them to bother? A break-in at my...

On a trip to Prague in the 90s in my old 200sx I did the autobahn at 120mph. One could see the fuel guage needle moving down and refuel inside 2hrs

Test parking without USS....

That maybe .but is it a question on the proposal form?

Paradox that sometimes garaged cars cost more. Argument that once in garage the burglar has more time to break into car and disabled trackers etc.

Range is all about convenience. 300miles in my math is 250 when kept at 80% for spontaneity. That means 125mile each way trip if not going via motorways and having to dogleg to chargers rather than my possibly preferred route cross country. It also drops down to under 100mile return in...