Tesla Talk

Smck1983

Gotcha yeah I am in no rush to sell to be honest. May end up keeping it in the end. You cannot go wrong in a ludicrous car. It will keep up or destroy cars over first 500m that cost upwards of quarter of a million. Fastest practical family car ever🀣.

You only live once is the way I look at it so wouldn’t worry too much on the depreciation!!

drumm23 wrote: »

Thanks, looks great - problem is I have a luxo barge to trade which won't be easy to off load on DD and makes the dealer route my best option probably

Smck1983

Just need to organise one... people will come!!

Gumbo wrote: »

Where are you based?
Pity there’s no active Tesla meet ups to come have a chat and a look around the cars before making the plunge.

I have a P85+ and I tell you now, I won’t be selling until a P85D or above is affordable to me so I’m very jealous (in a good way) on you PD owners

Old diesel

slave1 wrote: »

..and they give such poor trade in value here, a would bepurchaser from Tesla Ireland would be better off selling privately

Sandyford would need to change their business model for sure.

They need some kind of used car expert on hand to work out some sort of competitive bid for trade ins.

Would be nice (in the future) to be able to buy a 3 to 4 year Model 3 with some form of official link to Tesla.

Rather then having to buy them randomly in the normal non franchised network.

unkel

Old diesel wrote: »

Sandyford would need to change their business model for sure.

They need some kind of used car expert on hand to work out some sort of competitive bid for trade ins.

Nope. Tesla don't take trade ins. And they don't have sales men doing an individual deal with you earning commission. You buy on line, pay full price, no discount.

It's a new way of selling cars, they do this globally. They are not going to change this. If you have a trade in when you buy a Tesla, either sell it privately or dump it into the trade yourself (or let Tesla dump it into the trade for you). And if you prefer the old ways, then just buy another car.

drumm23

unkel wrote: »

Nope. Tesla don't take trade ins. And they don't have sales men doing an individual deal with you earning commission. You buy on line, pay full price, no discount.

It's a new way of selling cars, they do this globally. They are not going to change this. If you have a trade in when you buy a Tesla, either sell it privately or dump it into the trade yourself (or let Tesla dump it into the trade for you). And if you prefer the old ways, then just buy another car.

Yeah ... but a car isn't like a pair of shoes. The Tesla model has "worked" because the cars are so much better than the competition (EV wise) ... I don't think it works if/when the competition catch up. But we will see!

drumm23

What's the consensus on AP1 v. AP2 then? I was impressed with the AP1 in the car I test drove but from reading online you are not going to receive any updates whereas AP2 keeps improving ... but are the improvements that significant?

Kramer

drumm23 wrote: »

AP2 keeps improving ... but are the improvements that significant?

That's entirely subjective at present IMO, but obviously the possibility is there for big advances into the future. I personally don't see it advancing the way Elon is promising & think adaptive cruise control with good lane keeping & stop/start in traffic is plenty.

jhegarty

I hope everyone has a good stock of popcorn in for battery day tonight.

Zenith74

jhegarty wrote: »

I hope everyone has a good stock of popcorn in for battery day tonight.

Any idea what time the Battery Day bit starts? Stockholder meeting is at 21:30 Irish time, is that likely to go on 1/2/3/4 hours anybody know?

jhegarty

Zenith74 wrote: »

Any idea what time the Battery Day bit starts? Stockholder meeting is at 21:30 Irish time, is that likely to go on 1/2/3/4 hours anybody know?

I think the stock holders meeting was 2 hours last year.

Gumbo

1000km battery.
Sticking with LG units.
No real production volumes until 2022.

Someone posted that on Twitter yesterday.

Zenith74

jhegarty wrote: »

I think the stock holders meeting was 2 hours last year.

Well past my bedtime, will have to watch over breakfast :P

ELM327

Gumbo wrote: »

1000km battery.
Sticking with LG units.
No real production volumes until 2022.

Someone posted that on Twitter yesterday.

So, vaporware?

unkel

jhegarty wrote: »

I hope everyone has a good stock of popcorn in for battery day tonight.

Tbh I have low expectations, I don't think we will see anything fundamentally new or game changing here. In fact I welcomed the step down in battery tech that the Chinese Model 3 have been using. Cheaper, but slightly heavier batteries.

unkel

unkel wrote: »

Tbh I have low expectations, I don't think we will see anything fundamentally new or game changing here.

Yes I have the same expectations.

shanec1928

Smck1983 wrote: »

Yes selling my P85DL. Big advantage is I still have 2 years and 60K Klms warranty left. Give me a shout if interested.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/p85d-ludicrous-upgrade-0-60-2-8-secs/25859097

your add is let down by the lack of photos\ poor photos.

Zenith74

Aim low and you won't be disappointed!

Likewise expecting something immediate but not life changing, or significant but on a 2-3 year timeline which let's be honest you hear about new battery tech most weeks.

Zenith74

Zenith74 wrote: »

Aim low and you won't be disappointed!

Likewise expecting something immediate but not life changing, or significant but on a 2-3 year timeline which let's be honest you hear about new battery tech most weeks.

It will mostly be a stunt to boost shares.

AndyBoBandy

It's mainly going to be bigger/better batteries for the Semi/Cyber/Roadster isn't it???

With those batteries eventually rolling down into the 3/S/Y in years to come.

I fully anticipate that if/when I buy another Tesla in 10 years or so, there'll be a 1,000km range version available.

unkel

Deleted User wrote: »

It will mostly be a stunt to boost shares.

If the shares get boosted any further, they will reach Mars before Space X does

unkel

unkel wrote: »

If the shares get boosted any further, they will reach Mars before Space X does

Not a good time to buy then.

Gumbo

Buy shares today.
Watch release.
Sell tomorrow.

Any flaws to my plan ??,

jhegarty

Gumbo wrote: »

Buy shares today.
Watch release.
Sell tomorrow.

Any flaws to my plan ??,

Buy shares today.
Watch release.
Sell tomorrow.
Order Model 3 Performance with the profits.

slave1

Gumbo wrote: »

1000km battery.
Sticking with LG units.
No real production volumes until 2022.

Someone posted that on Twitter yesterday.

Say that 1000km battery will be the Roadster 2

ELM327

Probably the new structure which is likely to be shared between the semi, the cybertruck, and the roadster. All of which could not be released with 100kWh packs.

eamondunphy

Looks like I can't get the car transported to the Belfast service centre yet, they said its only for new cars.

Does anyone know any good and preferably cheap car collection and transport companies seeing as I can't get to mainland UK?

Rows Grower

Gumbo wrote: »

Buy shares today.
Watch release.
Sell tomorrow.

Any flaws to my plan ??,

The shares are dropping in price today and even Elon Musk has stated that Tesla is overpriced.

slave1

Put "car transporter" into DoneDeal and phone them all up, there's no cowboys in that game so whomever is the cheapest...

ELM327

NVD used to do this quite reasonably

jhegarty

For anyone who needs the link : https://livestream.tesla.com/