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Get employer to install a charging point? Revenues says that "Electricity is not a fuel" (as I understand it) so no monitoring or benefit-in-kind tax to worry about, so Employer ought to see it as a) add to their ECO credentials and b) easy Perk for employees. YMMV (literally!)
But, yeah, you could "work" whilst at Supercharger. I think this is a key benefit of Supercharging - driver needs a break every couple of hours, you don't have to stand-and-pump or queue-to-pay for Supercharger, unlike Petrol-Diesel, so time can be used productively. However, that does not apply to Passenger(s), their journey just gets longer when Charging as they were already at rest!
Not sure about "free", you need a lot of powerwall, and roof-PV, to store enough energy to recharge the car ... and in Winter the sun (in UK) has only 10% of the Power compared to mid-Summer
Unless T&C's have changed (i.e. re warranty) you may decide you don't need 12,500 mile service. Mine is about to have its first service, I did intend to do it at 12 months, but it slipped to about 14 months, and 27,000 miles. Nothing on dashboard telling me to service yet, and nothing really for service to do other than check everything ...
Yup. It was only £1K when I ordered mine AFAICR - maybe £2K, either way its gone up a lot, sorry about that.
If you are going to charge from home I think it worth looking into getting E7. You have to pay a bit more for daytime, but nighttime is about 50% discount. Hopefully you have PV that takes care of much of daytime use, and using Dishwasher etc. overnight helps to shift some cost to nighttime. Hot Water Immersion too maybe ... even PowerWall charged at Night and discharged during Day, although I'm not convinced by the economics of that, apart from some software features "coming soon" that I'm waiting for, just having power during not infrequent power cuts here would make it worthwhile (I work from home)
Hi!
For advance orders you can push it out 3 months beyond current delivery slots, not six months from order. It works out to about the same but worth bearing in mind... for example, today you can push an order back to Feb 18.
Your £4000 deposit is lost (if you cancel) once the 7 day period from your order expires, or if you confirm your order sooner.
It looks like you’re sorted for a code but if not feel free to send me a message and you can use mine. Happy to answer any other questions you might have.
Check in to E7 first - it doesn't mean that power after 7pm is cheaper (in fact that's considered peak time). It means you get 7 hours of cheap power during the night i.e. off-peak. Great for EV owners as you can set your car to start charging after this period starts - cheap for you and good for the grid as it evens out the "bathtub effect" that the National Grid struggle to manage.I'll have a look at E7, the vast magority of our electricity must be consumed after 7 anyway as work away from home all day.
You're welcome. If you have any more questions or need a referral code just drop me a message!Appreciate your help,
I might be wrong but the small print when I read up on the guaranteed future value of the car was dependant on following the servicing plan. It didn't affect the warranty.
my employer has installed about 6 charging points but with 8000 people
guaranteed future value of the car was dependant on following the servicing plan
Blimey! I see what you mean ...
... we have one charging point at work ... and one EV
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that as its not something that concerns me
As has been said E7 is 7-hours from midnight until 7AM (and 1AM until 8AM in Summer, if I've got the clock change the right way round!). You probably need to consider some timers for devices that can run overnight, or getting into the habit of using delay-start on Dishwasher etc. (because daytime electricity is a bit more expensive under E7)
If you aren't currently a frugal electricity user it might be worth having a go at that? We cut our electricity usage by half when we started to Go Green (many years ago now ...) I read the electricity meter each week (and heating fuel and water meter) and put the numbers in a spreadsheet, so we could see how we were doing, and we found that graph-on-the-wall became competitive!
We installed some timers, found some devices that were incredibly inefficient (big, old, fridge freezer that had years of accumulation of dust around the compressor air inlet, hoovered that and saved a fortune!, and an old transformer on the door bell was eating electricity too!) plus put some more efficient light bulbs in (CFL back then ...) and got the kids to turn the lights off ... still amazes me when we have youngsters to stay that they never turn anything off. We have fancy lighting system in the house now, so all upstairs lights go off at 10AM if they have been left on accidentally.
By 0830 BST most of the morning
Appreciate your help, will have a look and get myself into the Milton Keynes store asap
Like yourself I don't actually need the car until next year, but wanted to secure the 1.5% APR finance before it inevitably goes up and of course the £750 discount and free Supercharging. So I deferred delivery until Feb 2018 (the furthest I could), but they said it was no problem to store the car a few weeks (indoors) for a March delivery.
I can also confirm the £4K deposit and you get 7 days to change your mind before losing it. But you also have to fix the car spec within the 7 days and not when production actually starts. If you do decide to change the spec after 7 days, they charge £500 per spec change! So make sure you know exactly what spec you want before ordering.
what happens if they change the spec of the car in between you ordering it and it being delivered, again, specifically for deferred deliveries...
Very similar situation to myself as well. I was meaning to confirm with Tesla that deferred delivery still qualified for the current 1.5% APR.
The other thing I was wondering about was what happens if they change the spec of the car in between you ordering it and it being delivered, again, specifically for deferred deliveries...
My experience at the Birmingham, UK store hasn't been overwhelming. I'm not sure whether they're just ridiculously busy or just don't regard me as a serious buyer, but in either case, I've been looking at other EV's, even if they aren't quite at the same level as the Tesla, just to keep my options open.
What other EV's are you considering? I'm curious!
There aren't exactly abundance of options: so far I've only test driven one, the BMW i3, and it was too weird looking, small and the driving position felt too high up.
I'm going to try to organise test drives for a VW e-Golf and Hyundai IONIQ. Again, none of these stack up as equals to a Model S, but as long as they can get me to work and back and transport my family without being crammed like sardines, I'm willing to entertain them... must have EV!
I placed my order on 1.10.2017 for an MX100D when the online order page (that I had been monitoring daily!) changed that day to allow me to defer until March 2018 which is when I want delivery.
I filled in the finance application on line for 1.5% PCP although for some reason Black Horse then totally messed it up and confirmed finance accepted at 5% on an MS for October delivery! My DS in Leeds is sorting that out today.
The from 1.5% finance remains advertised on the website.
My referral code says whilst supercharging is maintained from 31.10.2017 the £750 off list price aspect ends.
We need a big family car, hence the Tesla X being the only realistic EV option for our needs. I can't see a family travelling very far in an i3! Nice little commuter though. e-Golf is probably the next most practical option outside of a Tesla, but the i3 is a far more interesting vehicle. My wife hates how it looks though! It is quirky, but I quite like it myself. I wonder how it rides on those big skinny wheels?
My Black Horse agreement doesn't show a delivery date, but I deferred it until Feb and Tesla Milton Keynes have agreed to store the car for an actual March delivery (to get the new reg). I don't know how deferred deliveries actually work and if they can slip back just like a standard min delivery i.e. do they build the car in line with the deferred delivery date based on their actual production lead times or do they simply start building it X number of weeks after the order, regardless of any known production delays? It's something I meant to ask.