Tesla Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive

In the summer, absolutely. I get more than the quoted range on my Long Range in weather like today with no issue. Go much more over 70mph and you will see the range drop just like you do in an ICE car. I average around 215-220wh/mile in this weather on motorways at 70 which is 4.6mi/kwh. The standard range is more efficient still.

Town driving around the houses and up to 60mph roads I can get 5.6mi/kwh which based on my battery (75 or 77kwh) would yield a theoretical 420miles.

Obviously in the real world you wouldn't be doing 420miles going from 100-0% and charge up whenever is convenient to top up - in my case I go out, come back and plug back in and 9/10 I will top back up solely off solar power. In the winter I tend to just run the battery to 15-20% and then do an overnight charge at 7.5p per kwh unless I am on a work trip where I will just have a 10-15min supercharge en-route.

Except they aren't.

I have alerts set up in AT still from when I got mine in Nov and the 12 month old, up to 10k miles cars are selling for the same as what they were last Nov - I also have alerts for ICE models too, and guess what -- They are selling for the same.


Kent to North East? 320 miles or 5hrs? There are cars that can get you there on a battery but irrespective of that, you drive for 5hrs without stopping?

Well, if you're not a cash buyer the only alternative is finance, and 0% is better than 10%. So it has a value there for sure.

As for cash buyers, if instead of buying outright my wife and I were to stick £20k in an ISA each we'll have £50k in 4yrs based on 5.5% fixed.

Take that route and in 4yrs we pay £25k to Tesla @ ~£500 per month, make £10k in interest, so get 4 yrs of motoring for £15k. You're effectively renting the thing for £10 per day.

You get an 8 year battery warranty on a new one

Was that on 0% too or have they bumped the price and put it at 0% now?

The real deal is 0% APR here

On the never never lease option most likely

No they don't want us owning cars - 15 min cities coming to a village near you soon.

They keep trying to pedestrianise the main road running through the outskirts of the town where I live. 1. There is simply no need for this and 2. If they did this it would require driving through residential estates which they want to make 20mph and take about 15 min to do a section of a trip that currently takes 30 seconds. This essentially would cut off the town and effectively enforce the utopia of a 15min city without it being a city and without it having any useable amenities.

Theyve only just released the Cybertruck in US after seemingly years of that being spotted in the wild.

Late Q2/Q3 2024 release for new 3 I reckon.

Model 2 won't be til 2025 at the earliest.

The model 3 is on a price parity now with a like for like ICE and probably cheaper (I've not checked recently)

Much appreciated @Simon

Ah ok I see it now - I was looking at the same area but for the Model Y, which doesn't show as 0%.

If it was 0% for Model Y, I would purchase straight away!

An Amercian built car that isn't available over here - great video.

I'm guessing thats been fixed / wouldn't be honoured??

Looks like 60 months is for HP and not for PCP (edited)

It looks that way. I'd been dithering for a few days, them pulling the rug makes the decision easy, as the 0% apr was making it a compelling purchase. 8.9% and I'll go back to looking for a second hand I Pace.

Service was just changing filters around £150.