Random EV thoughts.....

He could do a Johnny Cash on it, get it from the factory, it's cheaper that way😉

You get charged for the amount of electricity you use at them. Although the fast ones do generally charge more per unit of electricity than the slower ones, you pay for convenience. You dont get charged for time spent at them if that's what you mean

I think the question stems from the fact that due to load balancing one gets 75kW and they get charged full HPC rate. Similarly CHAdeMO users pay HPC prices while their car can't get the benefit of >100 kW speeds. That's in the ecars network

Battery prices to keep falling.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112023/inside-clean-energy-battery-prices-are-falling/

There’s probably a lot of (silly) people out there who thought an EV would be an appreciating asset based on the last few years of madness//chip shortages.. (or certainly not depreciate to the level they are currently depreciating at) … and the 2nd hand EV bubble would never burst… whereas in reality things have just returned to normal….

I put in 4 Trade in requests with Tesla to see what they’d offer me (although I had very little intention of trading up)

The car is a 2020 SR+ (bought for €48k in March 2020)

Nov 2020 - 16,000km - €37,000

Feb 2022 - 48,500km - €39,620

Aug 2022 - 63,700km - €43,895

Sept 2023 - 83,464km - €19,500

That last one is just a ‘we don’t want your trade in’ offer, which is fair enough, but they were offering me €44k (when a new RWD cost €54k) just over a year ago, and just before they dropped the new price to €40k….

It was bonkers out there for a while!!!

New RWD M3 is 41.8K for basic white.

Need to remember basic vehicle warranty differs from battery warranty.

Tesla battery warranty is fairly long and 8 years is more than reasonable. You wont get that cover on an engine.

There is also evidence showing Tesla batteries are proving to be quite durable even with frequent supercharging.

Appreciate repairs can be more complex, but when it comes to 'tips', most competent auto repairers can manage that. Had a couple of people hit me both back and front in my Model 3 requiring bumpers to be repaired and resprayed. Wasnt any more hassle than any other car - higher cost was associated with premium paint.

Luckily enough the 7000 cells on old Teslas come in 16 modules, so just replace the one affected. You don't need to guess either as the diagnosis tells you exactly where the issue is. As for the lack of skills: The mechanics will need to upskill similarly when the steam engines were replaced with diesel and carburettors with fuel injection.

Takes 2 minutes if you're already at the petrol station or you usually do your shopping at a petrol station... takes a lot longer if you have to actually go out of your way to drive to one, fill up, then queue to pay, and then drive back

Its not the end of the world, but if I had to fill up the car before dropping the kids to school, I'd need to leave 20 minutes earlier to arrive at the school at the same time, to account for getting to the petrol station and the extra traffic and queuing that involved.

I would put around 40 euros a time into the car and would end up doing that at least once if not twice a week

I've to put Diesel in my ICE this week and I'm dreading it.... (just the fcuking hassle of it all)

And the only reason I need to do it is because we are going away next week, so I usually drive to my mothers who then drops us to the airport and keeps the car til we're back, but she won't take the Tesla because it's too futuristic...

Thats the old, in with the new, next to impossible to pull a module out.