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Posted 2 June 2023
Tesla 2023 Model 3 - Rear wheel drive, 305 miles range - £38790 @ Tesla
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Pearl White Paint
18’’ Aero Wheels
All Black Partial Premium Interior
Autopilot
Front and Rear Heated Seats
30-Day Premium Connectivity Trial
Pearl White Paint
18’’ Aero Wheels
All Black Partial Premium Interior
Autopilot
Front and Rear Heated Seats
30-Day Premium Connectivity Trial
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sorted byI will admit the infrastructure isn’t great down there in North Devon but as soon as you get close to the M5 there are plenty of options for charging.
To add to this the car was fully loaded for a week away for 2 adults and 2 small children so that would have also impacted overall range.
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Additionally, I like ICE cars. I get panic attacks thinking about full EV transitioning.
I will miss the smell of fuel and exhaust gases as you open up on the open roads of the UK countryside and the beautiful sound of my roaring 3 litre V6 engine.
ICE cars are made for MEN. Eliminating ICEs is definitely a sign of the emasculation of men. This really breaks my heart.
Tax was obviously a big saving.
Fuel costs has been a huge saving, and I went with a lease, so no depreciation.
Servicing is generally cheap but there are services which cost more. The first one was ridiculously cheap, but the next one aren't so cheap as they start to actually do things!
What surprised me the most was that the WLTP range given isn't a difficult to achieve figure, more like the average.
I don't drive to try and be the most economical, I just let it do it's thing. My average over two years is 4.8 miles per kWh. It has a battery size of 38.8kw so my average range is 186 miles. The given figure is 183 miles. That includes the winter. Achieving above average is easy if you try. My best to date was a just over 200 miles round trip. The car said it had 205 miles on the guessometer. I ended up driving 205 miles exactly, but got home with it saying there was 30 miles left.
I have found it to be absolutely fantastic for my use case. I don't do huge mileage, my commute is 5 miles each way. I work from home some days. I take my daughter to a sports centre once a week which is a 60 Mile round trip and take her for competitions all over the country once a month or so. I charge nearly all the time at home from a regular 13amp socket in the garage. It is only in the longer journeys that I charge, but so far that has been very convenient too.
“First and foremost, based on data from over 6,000 electric vehicles, spanning all the major makes and models, batteries are exhibiting high levels of sustained health. If the observed degradation rates are maintained, the vast majority of batteries will outlast the usable life of the vehicle.”
I'd recommend the Model Y over the Model 3 if you want a family car.
My wife has this same car and costs 10k more. I think its worth it as I use the functions. My wife doesn't so it's harder to justify but even she can see the value.
Stick to the road, user interface is amazing, great efficiency, amazing ride and amazing quality.
Let's not pretend the quality is as it was 10 years ago @pe_london
Just a shell of a car.
Good to see these prices drop but I think I’ll be the other side of 2030 before I change to something of this ilk. (edited)
Porsche is the same with their IMS bearing issues. Anyone that says German cars are reliable is stuck in the last century.
900,000 of us out there…..
unless you do silly mileage, driving a diesel makes absolutely no sense to us.
Now in 2023 their cars, design and (to some extent) tech (and certainly build quality) has been surpassed and they are desperately clinging on. They no doubt still appeal, but are now needing to cut prices even further to stay relevant. Reasonable deal for this car but don’t get seduced by “Tesla” and their perceived image. Have a look elsewhere before parting with your £40k. (edited)
Having owned a Model 3, and now a BMW i4 literally no comparison Tesla quality is truly shocking. The drive is awful, it's a one truck pony ie. acceleration, zero refinement on all round drive. Truly the worst car I've owned to drive and I'm comparing back to my early Cars.
Tesla are now being found out & completely surpassed by competitors. I think in ten years they'll be a joke. Musk took his eye off the ball, and they lost their edge. Instead of building gigs factories all over the place with pumped up stock cash should have refined & improved their products.Musk is liability now
He knows that EVs will be gone within a few years. Tesla was only ever meant to burn bright for a few years before disappearing.
Most people wouldn't drive for that length of time without stopping to eat, drink or just simply 'make themselves comfortable' so to need a 30-minute charging stop after traveling that far isn't really really a big deal.
Or, that car could easily go from London to Birmingham and back WITHOUT charging en-route.
Imo not a bad car (superlative charge network, okay winter range degradation, great running cost), can't see it being worth more than £25-28k imo especially with the end of quarter reduction they offer on "barely used, used inventory" - if I had that sort of money, would rather put the money on Tesla shares unless really need a Tesla. Can see their current market cap increasing from the under 0.6tn market cap going to 1.5-2tn in 3-5 years, that or it ceases to exist.
One thing to watch out for is the insurance cost. For what you save in the petrol vs electricity - being on a few Tesla groups, some owners have seen their premium 2x vs the year before (Tesla repair parts / parts have long delays often) & insurance companies are passing it on. That, and inspect your car properly on arrival (the QA or the lack of quality check from the Tesla "production hell" is a bit awkward, e.g panel gap, uneven paint, hairline cracks in glasses, etc; I'd bring a mechanic friend when signing for the car before I'd sign to accept + where possible if it were me, I'd be sure to put it onto credit card or something with recourse e.g. Section 75 in case the quality issue can't be rectified).
Curious what updates the "project highland" upgrade that's inbound any days might look like. Expect it's a small facelift and more cheap parts (to bring the cost down). (edited)
Probably and probably do something with this
There's no comparison with older cars that have reliably been on the road over 20 years, I have 2.
In terms of saving the planet, I've done my bit by keeping the same cars for 2 decades while the preachers have probably changed car 8/10 times.
First, the great things:
- Fantastic efficiency: gets more range per kWh of battery than most other brands
- Supercharger network: great distribution, simple usage and built-in navigation system that factors in charging stops and routes accordingly
- Some premium features as standard: things like adaptive cruise control and autosteer, electric seats and self closing boots are features that you don't get on top of the range BMWs without buying additional 'packs'
- No need for routine servicingm saving a lot of money
Now the not so great things:
- Phantom breaking in cruise control: simply unacceptible given this doesn't happen on other brands
- Missing features: Teslas don't have front or back cross-traffic alerts, blind-spot monitoring, 360-degree view, or matrix LED headlights (even though the hardware is there)
-Tesla hubris: No HUD, no radar or parking sensors, no rain sensors, no CarPlay or Android Auto
From what I can tell, a lot of these issues are sheer hubris with Tesla pushing the belief that 'Tesla vision' is the way forward and that the cameras will will act as replacements for all the sensors that have been removed. Unfortunately, it seems like the vision/software just doesn't work. There are plenty of complaints about the vision-based wipers (rather than the industry standard rain senesor) not working and similarly, there are plenty of videos out there about how bad the vision-based parking assistant is. In a year of driving a Mazda with adaptive cruise control I've had zero phantom braking issues, but I had 3 in a half-hour Model 3 test drive. It seems that all the software engineering teams are desperately trying to get the vision systems (and FSD) to work so features like blind-spot/360-view/cross traffic alerts and activating the matrix headlilghts aren't coming any time soon.
From someone whose next car in 2-3 years will be an EV, this is very frustrating.
It can't be that hard for Tesla vision 'Software' to detect if something is immediately behind you as a parking sensor, whilst reversing? The hardware should be able to either see it or not see it at <1 metre away - surely there isn't much to code there? If it can't see it, then add parking sensors back in that £500).
*for us older folk! (edited)
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