Tesla Model Y

That would be interesting. From what I remember, the blade battery has already gone to Berlin, but I don't think there are plans to use them in Chinese cars for now (even though they are substantially cheaper for Tesla to buy)

Obviously, charging time is part dependent on where your travelling to/from. ABRP should give you a good estimate if you input the required information accurately.

300km is probably a fairly reliable motorway estimate for a 55kWh Model Y, maybe a little more in summer weather.

Supercharging, like all other fast charging is pretty expensive. Not that this matters much as most EV owners do more then 90% of their charging at home with cheap night rate electricity or even for free from the sun. So I wouldn't call that a USP for Tesla. The Supercharger network is though, it is very reliable and there are no queues. This is a big bonus compared to non-Teslas, particularly if you do a lot of long distance driving or if you ever take your car to the UK or to continental Europe. The system is integrated in the car's sat nav, so you would never have to plan your trip like you would with any non-Tesla EV. The car even prepares itself for charging by pre-conditioning the battery just before arrival at the Supercharger and telling you how long you will need to stop and charge for

WLTP test only briefly touches on 120km/h (the US EPA test is better this way) so it's not really a good indicator of motorway range. The Model Y is extremely aerodynamic, which helps though. That said, I'd say at 120km/h in winter, you'd be lucky to get 300km range, but I'm guessing. Maybe someone on here with a Model 3 with the LiFePO4 battery can share their experience, it will be similar enough

If your trip has Ballacolla (or any other Supercharger) bang in the middle of the trip, you could do your trip with just the one stop, would probably take about 45 minutes, again guessing how long it takes from near empty to near full, again maybe a Model 3 owner with the LiFePO4 battery can share their experience.

I do a 300km round trip fairly regularly in my 21 M3p, pre condition and heat car before I leave and if I stay at 110 km/hr I normally return home with 25% battery left, so real world range of 400km

You'd do that with 2 x 20min stops in a long range. In a standard range you'd be quicker with more but shorter stops e.g. in Kill as well as Ballacolla.

Stopping more than once each way, when I’m driving 600km+ round trip and doing a few business meetings wouldn’t be feasible, I generally never stop either way so stopping twice would be a big change. Will probably hold off and keep filling with diesel for another year.

Cant see any chance of charging in Dublin too unless I go out of my way to find a charger but that likely wouldn’t help as I won’t make it home in a single charge anyway

If it's not feasible, you have your answer. Last year, I regularly drove 600+km per day. I've a strong bladder, but even I would have to stop for a wee and bite to eat if I planned to be civil with clients. The company was paying but had I been in an ev with decent range, they would have saved a fortune on fuel and maintenance.

EQS would do that without stopping if you drove reasonably in the summer, and would need likely only one 10-15 minute Ionity stop in the winter

And just to jump on the back of that question. If a deposit is put on a Tesla, at what stage do they look for full payment?

Just heard that the Tesla Model Y was the best selling car in Europe in September. That's incredible. Of course Tesla delivers most cars in end of quarter months, but still pretty amazing. Because let's be honest, it's not a cheap car like a Yaris or a Golf.

Did Musk really say that the Model Y would at some point be the best selling car in the world? Sounds preposterous, but wouldn't totally surprise me if that happened next year.

Model Y at roughly the same price as a Model 3 will outsell the latter many times once it is available in big numbers

Yes the €5k grant should have been long gone, people are buying EVs anyway and as many as we can get. See the imho overpriced BMW i4, great car, but not an EV build from the ground up, so compromised. And expensive (not qualifying for the grant) and about to get yet another significant price increase of several thousand EUR, already had another one earlier this year. Yet the people are killing each other on the waiting list for one

And you are right of course, every €1k drop in grant next July would mean a €1k increase of the Model Y's price. Same as for all other qualifying EVs, if demand for EVs will still be higher than supply, why would the manufacturer absorb this when the consumer is more than willing to pay. My main reason for ordering the Model Y is that it is now a lot of car for the money (I didn't expect it to become this cheap) and the disappearing grant is a large cushion against depreciation. So indeed a choice of the head over the heart on this one. If BMW had had an i4 version with availability, qualifying for the grant, I would have likely bought that.

Almost €80k car with those options. Madness if you ask me! Will probably be worth just €60k after a year. I guess some people have more than enough money not to have to worry about these things. Unfortunately I'm not one of them 😂

lovely but the performance Y is less than 5k more. I can't see why anyone would buy the LR Y