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Trade union leaders "fight for their people", managers implement policy, I ran my own company and managers that thought they were "a leader" were a PITA and usually underperformed. Prima donna: a vain or undisciplined person who finds it difficult to work under direction or as part of a team...

EV sales including Tesla faltered, Tesla needed to cut costs, Tinucci resisted, Musk sacked her and her entire team. When the company is under stress you don't need prima donnas fighting their corner.

I'm sure that driving style is a factor but I suspect that the condition of the roads makes a significant difference. Miles driven on roads with potholes and poorly maintained traffic calming probably cause more wear than the same number of miles driven on comparatively well maintained...

Available in the UK from July 2024. Dual motor 0-60 3.2s £60k

https://www.statista.com/statistics/425095/eu-car-sales-average-prices-in-by-country/

I will trade in my Model Y for a Juniper refresh as soon as it is available. Tesla regains global BEV crown over BYD in Q1

@Vostok What is really surprising about your graph is the bit that is missing! If I am reading it correctly, your PW lost about 20% capacity in the first 30 months and about 6% in the second 30 months?

I haven't recorded full pack energy regularly but from 2 readings and assuming original capacity of 14,000 in October 2020 I see about 4% degradation in 40 months down to 13,424 now. Annual degradation in the first two years 1.19% and 1.35% in the last year. Assuming the annual increase in the...

I will need new tyres for my Model Y soon, so I wondered which one you went for and if you are happy with them?

Finally got this all set up and configured the PW to export everything. Exported about 4.7kWh during the saving session today (17:30-18:30), so about £10 worth of Octopoints at a net rate of about £2.15. Not bad for the first outing. Impressed that all I have to do is set the export rate for the...

I contacted UKPN, they responded very quickly, were very helpful, and have agreed to increase the export limit from 6.5kW to 8.5kW without an engineer visit. Total solar is 6.5kW and 0kW was assumed for the PW, I requested a total of 11.5kW but UKPN explained that due to the size of the cabling...

The first option runs the risk of using peak electricity if the battery is not charged sufficiently during the day to last until off peak. The risk varies according to time of year and weather.

I am in a similar situation and have the same question. I contacted my installer but they are not being particularly helpful and wondering if a call to UKPN (in my case) is worth a try.

We can only look on in amazement in the UK, no Cybertruck for us, apart from MIC 3 & Y all we get is S & X with steering wheels on the wrong side.

I thought I saw a gear selector in the overhead console?

This "they will sell all vehicles they make take is moronic" is moronic. First, EV truck is a niche product, second Cybertruck is a niche of that niche, third reading between the lines of Tesla statements about CT it seems that the steel body manufacturing will be very hard to scale...

For some time to come, Tesla will sell all the Cybertrucks that they can make and there will still be a queue.

Polestar 4 looks very interesting, I was intending to trade in my Model Y for a Juniper Model Y in 2024, if it reaches the UK by then, but this looks like it could be a tempting alternative.

When I bought my first Tesla, my judgement was that useable Tesla FSD would not arrive in the UK within 3 years and decided therefore not to add it to my order. When I traded in nearly 3 years later I made the same decision again, and would probably come to the same conclusion today. I was...

Surely LLM autonomous driving wouldn't work very well because it would forever be turning to the left.

I think that the BYD Seagull looks very interesting, the designer used to work for Lamborghini, and it is likely to start from about £10,000 when it gets to the UK next year. This will really shake up the EV market in Europe but BYD seem to be concentrating on the high end, Model S like Han, in...

Tesla is clearly focussed on reducing the cost of manufacturing and increasing autonomy so most of the changes that they make are neither surprising nor puzzling. I have been treated better by Tesla in the last 4 years than by BMW in the preceding 20 years. Many of the anti Musk comments on...

This is a surprising and disappointing shortcoming in Tesla Navigation, it never occurred to me that it would not have this option until late one night I needed to use it and it wasn't there, I ended up using the navigation on my phone but I hope that Tesla add the feature some time soon.

The MG is now back, apparently it was a software fault which has now been fixed by the dealer, not clear if this affects all MG4s or if they all need to be returned to the dealer for a fix.

My daughter got one in January, has been using it as a family car and for commuting and been really happy with it. However, last week, for no obvious reason, out of the blue, the car initiated an emergency stop. Apparently nothing like the infamous Tesla phantom braking this incident was a...

Over decades, I owned and drove BMW 520, 750, 735, 740, 330, 123 and moved on to Tesla 3 and now Tesla Y. I don't miss the smug, unhelpful, expensive BMW dealerships but when BMW get close to Tesla efficiency, performance, and charging facilities I will have a look.

503 server maintenance UK here, first time I have experienced it but it seems that it does happen from time to time.

I have West and South facing panels and I'm now considering the East roof. There is limited space and I have been quoted £7,590 for 6 x 410W panels + SolarEdge 2200W inverter. Given what I paid in the past, this is rather more than I was expecting, however, perhaps prices have risen and this is...

Same problem since new on my 2022 MIC Model Y both front windows although more often with the passenger side. Has been "fixed" twice by Tesla service and still happens although somewhat less frequently than originally. Never had this problem with 2019 Fremont M3. Presumably associated with the...

I just received a quote for 6 more panels and 2nd Powerwall for just over £18k, lead time for panels 6 months and PW about a year. Previous installation (with the same company) in October 2020 was for 9 panels and 1st Powerwall and cost about £14.5k. Either prices have really gone up or this is...

Yes, I noticed it yesterday and it is still happening today.

I experienced exactly the same issue (with the same road!) yesterday. It is very disappointing that Tesla NAV does not provide the "avoid motorways" option that is available in every other system that I have used.

Tesla Vision based on cameras alone cannot be reliable. Last week I drove most of the way home at night with one or more cameras blocked or blinded, it wasn't even raining and there was no mud or dirt on the car or cameras. Today it was raining heavily and when I started backing in to a...

I suspect that Tesla removed the USS because they had supply problems and wanted to keep production flowing to try to meet their numbers. They did it in a hurry and hope that the all seeing Tesla Vision will be able to fill the gap at some point in the future.

XPENG P5 has lidar, radar, cameras, USS and looks great and seems to be better at driving than Tesla.

It strikes me that removing the USS comes from the same mindset that brought us touch screen for everything, dysfunctional automatic wipers, and removed the radar, a purist minimalist perspective that truly believes that everything can be solved by Tesla Vision. I, on the other had, see auto...

My previous car, a BMW, had self park and I never used it, and I have not used it in either of my Teslas, however, it is surprising and disappointing that none of the Teslas can do what Audi, BMW, and Ford seem to manage very well.

I have had trouble with the window auto reversal in the MY since picking it up in March. However, I was surprised to see this “recall” because the problem I have had is it operates for no apparent reason, the window fails to close, and returns to two thirds open position, sometimes a number of...

Last ditch attempt, tried LV and they also require a Thatcham approved tracker with a current subscription.

It seems that Boom insist on a Thatcham approved tracker, so will stick with Direct Line which is now £573.40 as we are doing more miles this year.

Direct Line last year £401.35, this year £530.48. Confused quotes are all over £600 apart from a company called Boom which is £477.36 so may look at that more closely.

Insurance is due for renewal and I had an email from John Lewis Finance telling me how great they are and inviting me to get a quote, so I thought I would have a look. They let me fill in all the details and then at the very end displayed "We are unable to quote". This can only be because it is...

2023 MG4 Performance AWD 0-60 sub 4 seconds may shake things up particularly if it is less than £30k.

Our gas SMETS2 meter stopped sending readings on 20-Apr-22 and the electricity meter stopped sending readings on 15-May-22, both reported to Octopus who apparently had not detected the failures. On 8-Jun-22 I received a call from AES proposing an engineer visit to reboot the meters and shortly...

Until December our GO tariff is 5p/14.12p/25p which works out slightly cheaper than TEP even before taking account of the FiT deemed export. However, the current GO tariff is 7.5p/35.11p/37.65p and that will be significantly more expensive than TEP even after taking account of the FiT deemed...

My 2022 Model Y AWD has a high pitched whine/whistle sound coming from the front of the car at a very specific steady speed of 59mph and I included this on a list of issues on a visit to the SC today. I went for a short drive with the Tesla tech and he said that he could hear the sound but did...

In 2021, on Octopus GO, we drew 3.77Mwh from the grid at a blended rate of about 8p per kWh and exported about 10% of the power generated by our solar panels, .58 Mwh at a rate of 0p per kWh, net cost about £300. If we were on the TEP, at 12p per kWh, the net cost, ignoring any extra losses due...

Using the data download from the Tesla app I calculated total power in (i.e. delivered to house or PW) as Solar plus From grid less To grid and assumed that the difference between this and the Home use was power lost due to the PW. As this was for a yearly calculation I did not take account of...

In the first full year of operation my Powerwall was about 88% efficient, and presumably will gradually deteriorate further, so it is necessary to take account of round trip loss when doing calculations.

Brilliant thank you, I don't know how I missed that.