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Ha. I feel pretty much the same way.

Would love one but fuck £60k base.

Cheers all, we're going to move from London's famous London to France at some point next year so it won't be until then anyway. Charging infrastructure seems light years ahead of the UK so definitely going to go electric, probably gonna go full on house with garage SUV wanker then and become everything I hate.

Went for the polestar 2.
Delivery 25 weeks
👍🏼

You need a Canoo.

(No idea if they will ever be sold on this side of the Atlantic).

Batteries from trees:
https://www.storaenso.com/en/products/lignin/lignode

T8 😉 it’s Christmas

Maybe Santa brought me £96k for an EX90…. (Probably not)

I’d throw a huff if not

If and when I get another promotion at work I’m going to go etron saloon. It looks amazing

fishing for a mention? I fell for it if so

Was I that obvious.

Huff thrown

Anyone done the research into best home charger (got a Model Y) so that I don’t have to? K thnx

Tesla chargers are nice, decent price too.

I've got a Zappi installed (no car yet to comment further though - and not a Tesla but they do the same thing)

I started looking, gave up and got the Tesla one. A lot of the smart features that other chargers provide are not that relevant as the car can be scheduled to charge at various times, app keeps costs etc. Perhaps there would be more to consider if you have Solar panels/batteries etc. I figured keeping the same ecosystem may have a benefit at some point. Next door neighbour just uses 32A commando point, for his Y.

you can only charge a Tesla in the Tesla charger or any with that type of adapter/plug (whatever it's called!)?

No you can charge other cars with the CCS connector on the Tesla charger too. There is an option in the app to limit to Tesla cars, but it will do any.

Big Tesla price drops in the UK today. At least the email arrived today. Great for those looking to buy one. Probably blow apart the used market though.

The middle of the end. They know the cars aren’t cool any more. They know they can’t compete with premium cars from experienced manufacturers in terms of product sophistication. So all they can do to try to recapture market share is make them cheaper.

I don't see where the Tesla market position in the UK will be in 6 months time. MG have got the value end sewn up, the Koreans own the mid market (and Genesis looks promising further up), and the German and Swedish(sic) brands own the higher end of things.

6 months is maybe a bit quick but I agree completely.

And, according to my chum in ‘future mobility’ the Chinese car manufacturers are miles ahead in terms of tech and scale so are poised to rock the established order in the west. The MG4 is clearly going to sell by the bucket load, establish proof of concept and begin the influx.

maybe I shouldve sold mine lol

The Kia and Hyundai EVs are supposedly excellent, but not cheap.
They can be specced cheaper, but Tesla’s price drop puts them in serious price competition.

I’m interested to see what the price drop does with Tesla lease prices, as my RAV4 plug in that I have had on order since May 22 with expected delivery in March 23 has been delayed till Nov 23…

You can still repent.

I paid 54k for my Tesla model y in black so it’s basically the same as the price now (1.5k more maybe?) - it’s that’s they’d increased the price to nearer 60k over last 9m