any good 3rd-party (business) lease deals for Tesla available in UK?
Just in case relevant: as a company car you can apply 100% first-year-write-off to an EV. You have to pay tax on the "profit" when you sell, but that chunk-of-change worked for me when i bought mine. BiK on the Car is barmy (just this year I think) and then its falling back to minimal levels again [for EV compared to ICE].
You can charge-at-work without any Benefit-in-Kind tax, although cost of Electricity is so much cheaper than Petrol that its not all that significant. I do 27,000 miles a year, on E7 electricity that's about £700 p.a., Of that I supercharge for 12% (for free) and about half the rest is charged at work - so I save about 300-quid-a-year for charging at work - its not exactly going to make the difference between me buying THIS or THAT
If Supercharging would make a difference for you beware that the current incentive using a Referral code runs out on 16th September ... previously the Referral Program has always been replaced with "something else / similar", but this time ... who knows ... Use of a referral code is a gift from you to the person who's code you use of £500 or more (i.e. its baked into the price)
not even fully ruled out I-pace yet
If you don't plan to drive out-of-range the i-Pace looks like a great car, particularly if the styling and coach-building is important to you, or if the spartan cabin and no-buttons style of Tesla is not-your-thing. But for my money, if you do need to drive out-of-range, then there is no comparison between 3rd-party-charging and Tesla.
Tesla=Plug-in, walk-away, check-APP, when done return to car and unplug-and-drive-away.
3rd party = Find a charger that is working, make sure you have pre-installed the APP for the company you are charging from; they are somewhat geographic, so given you will be 200 miles from home before you need to charge chances are you will use multiple different providers around the country. I have failed-to-charge at almost as many 3rd party chargers that I have succeeded at, and the minimum connect time was of the order of 5 minutes (whereas my average charge-time on Tesla is usually around 10 minutes in total). Best 3rd Party charger, using a CHAdeMO adaptor (not cheap), is about 50% speed of Tesla, and down from that is Type-2 which needs a multi-hour shopping expedition to get 150 mile top-up - whereas Tesla can do that in 35 minutes.
I sincerely hope that Rapid CCS is successfully rolled out across EU, and in UK, promptly but who knows. Not a single 150 kW CCS in UK as yet (that I know of), and it is a victim of the whole chicken-and-egg thing. London-to-Scotland needs a 20 minute Supercharge for a Tesla, but anything else is 1.5 hours charging time, currently. That said, it didn't stop early adopters buying Teslas in the early days, when Superchargers only existed here-and-there.
If you are ambivalent (ish!) on S vs. X and 75 vs. 100 my recommendation would be to do some range calculations for journeys where you would go more than 200 miles. if you don't do more than 200 miles in a day (or very rarely) then the 100 will be an expensive choice; personally I'm not sure that the Performance models is worthwhile - on my own its great fun, as was demoing to my mates (but I did that within a few weeks of ownership). 90% of my driving is dual carriageway on AutoPilot ... and if I have a passenger its very unnerving for them if I hop out onto a roundabout
because-I-can and if
the-gap-is-a-bit-tight, ... so i don't.
I'm out of range at least 2 days a month, and it would be more with a 75; the 100 will give you more charging choices, more range before you charge
Natch!, but also shorter charging time (both because less will be required to reach destination, but also because the 100 charges 1/3rd-ish faster than the 75 [up to 70~80%])
If Range is an issue, and you don't need the falcon-wing doors to get kiddies into car seats without putting your back out and in the dry, when its raining, then the S is more frugal than the X
