Tesla Model Y

Opinions / advice request guys. If you could only pick one extra, would it be the paint, or the white seats?

Family car.

Anyone with direct experience of either would be a great help. I'd like to pick black, with white interior. Or grey/silver with black interior.

Thanks for any info.

Oh I know it's personal, but we test drove a M3 blue, with white interior and it really felt a bit special, compared to others. But concerned how white interior will last. So other equal option is to spend it on paint.

Our other car is white, so that's out. Don't want " fleet colours" ! I know, first world problems.

For a bike rack.....protection an added bonus!

Agree with @Gumbo, I have the white interior in my black Model S and it is pure class. Makes the car look and feel more modern and more luxury. The white cleans up well too, so no worries there.

I will be doing Dublin to Kerry with the MY RWD. My logic in going with RWD is that I will need to stop both ways as no destination charging in Kerry so no real benefit in the LR for avoiding stops. All my other driving is comfortably within RWD range.

My only concern is that there will be queues in Birdhill during Bank Holiday weekends with all the extra Teslas there will be on the road given the massive increase in supply and demand or they open up the SC Network (hoping I am wrong).

Will sell on the MY if we have to queue regularly as wouldn't have any patience for that and go back to PHEVland.

Thanks Gumbo. Thats true. There probably are other options but by all accounts SuC would be the best option and would be rolling the dice stopping elsewhere. Do this trip regularly enough and when ordering in November was thinking it would be a steady increase in Teslas so didn't foresee this as an issue. When I know time is particularly tight for me or know I will be doing extra driving in Kerry, I might just rent an ICE. Don't have time to be driving around Kerry looking for chargers unfortunately (and Tralee is well out of the way) as we usually have a jam packed schedule when we are there.

The explosion in numbers while great, is problematic in that the limited network (supercharger and others) will likely frustrate owners.

Should be grand unless resale values of Model Ys plummet (not beyond the realms of possibility but I don't think they will)!

That is time I have control over though so wouldn't frustrate me or the family. Can easily pick up or drop back on way to/from work. Takes me 5 mins to book. I also enjoy sampling all kinds of cars so always fun to drive something different. As a bonus, will keep the KMs down on the Y to somewhere closer to average.

Will also have to keep practicing using a petrol pump in the same way I occasionally drive a manual car after now owning 4 soon to be 5 automatics 😉.

There's not enough superchargers in Ireland to open them up to the non-Tesla plebs 😂

Sorry couldn't help myself but the network is one of Teslas USPs. Tesla is obviously well aware of this, that's why they weren't opened up. I'm not against opening up the network myself, but only if there is enough capacity. Like in the Netherlands, where the trial started.

Last year I rented about 7 cars, all on the continent all quite nice but none nicer drive than my 3LR. Looking to rent a 7 seater here in a few weeks and prices are shocking.

Above is a drive from last summer (thanks to ggl timeline) From Sneem to Dublin. Initially planned a stop at Ballacolla but as everyone was asleep in the car gave it up. Stopped at Kildare Village at herself request. From Cork to Kildare on EAP. According to ggl timeline 322km 3h49min.Charged some while did the shopping in Tesco at the AC there. Didn't really need it but I'm ABC kinda guy.

I think "the infrastructure isn't ready" mantra & press coverage is a little overblown. For sure apartment dwellers and house renters might have to use fast chargers on a weekly basis, but I had no home charger for 2 months after getting the car and it's not a big deal to find an ESB or LIDL and plug in for 40 minutes. People using the car for work would have to lean on the motorway chargers, but Ionity is a good, fast service and not too expensive with membership. My nephew used my ID for 2 weeks up and down the west coast (Galway to Donegal) and almost exclusively used the much-lamented ESB rapid chargers. Never had an issue with availability or reliability. I've driven to most corners of Ireland and haven't had an issue (albeit without time pressure and with a lot of planning)

I can't see any scenario where I'm charging at a supercharger in the city I live in. If I was day tripping to Cork and back, then yeah I'd image I'd use the supercharger, but there's also 2 Ionitys on the way home. But I'd also try to plugin to a slow charger near whatever I'm doing in the city.

Tralee, on the other hand, I can see being rammed in the summer as people holidaying or on their way to the Dingle peninsula have no where to fast charge.

It really depends what you mean by overblown. Most things that make it into the media these days tend to be overblown as that is the nature of the beast now. Calm well reasoned debate or reporting is less fashionable than it used to be.

As things get mainstreamed, the general population, unlike the earlier 'innovators' as @unkel rightly refers to them, are far less likely to put up with inconvenience. What strikes me about the innovators is that they tend to be good planners and have sufficient time.

If reports from the UK over Christmas are to be believed, with queues for two hours at Superchargers, and we have similar issues here, that will sour the taste of ownership. Hoping we don't get to that point and I think Tesla would be best placed to put in measures to ensure we don't.