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Our lives don't evolve around the needs of the car. As CPS "destination charging etiquette" notes, sometimes people are not in a position to move their car and that's okay, for example parked overnight whilst sleeping. I totally understand when limited on range, such as when I was driving Leaf, the suitable place to charge is much smaller. This means every charger counts. This is why I have been very vocal about people sitting on rapid chargers. Rapid chargers are like petrol stations, you wouldn't see people block a petrol pump and disappear off to the high street for hours would you? But destination charging is just parking spots with bonus. It would be crazy to suggest someone to get up at middle of the night to move their car from one parking spot to another. So why demand this for EV's? People need or don't need the energy is for the individual to decide, I wouldn't presume either way. I agree people plugging in for the parking spot is very selfish. However, free or disproportionally cheap anything public just does not work, that's the root of the problem.

My counting skill isn't as good as my 5 year old, but I only count 14 charging space? Great to see more Kempower stalls though. They give you a QR code that shows live charging stats including the charging curve. Very informative for people to learn when to move the car from rapid chargers.

Look, I'm not saying you should get any type of vehicle. Different people, different use cases. All I'm saying is that moving the car at a destination charger, in the middle of the night, is not needed.

We have to make the distinction between rapid and destination charging. I'm talking about 3/7/11/22 kW AC destination chargers, it is parking space with charging as a bonus. I'm not talking about DC rapid chargers, I totally agree rapid charging is a 30min splash and dash affair. All I'm saying is you don't need to wake up middle of the night to move a car that is plugged in to a destination charger. 3/7/11/22 kW AC destination chargers, it is parking space with charging as a bonus.

Wait, you so dedicated to EV charging "etiquette" that you would get up middle of the night to unplug and move the car? Slow chargers like that are meant to be destination chargers, just park up and charge. Don't need to move until you plan to leave. Treat it like a parking spot.

Have a read online of review of your local Tesla service centre reviews. There's reports of difference in quality of service from different service centre. For example, I've received great service from London Park Royal, but people in Scotland seems to be left with bad experience. https://www.tesla.com/findus?v=2&bounds=53.84524719741405%2C-0.5500028738281215%2C52.98008154617668%2C-2.3050687917968715&zoom=10&filters=service&location=sheffield2

I'm not saying to go somewhere and wait for the car to recharge. That would be very silly. I'm saying there may be chargers near your destination or wherever you park, plug in. It should ensure you have charge in your car on the next leg of your busy day. EV ownership is easy once we let go of the petrol station mentality: gotta wait by the car and refill at a central location. Anywhere anytime the car is stationary, it can recharge. Doesn't need anyone with the car. You mentioned London, there's always a charger within walking distance in around central and some areas of greater London. Drop off your kit and then plug in at nearby charger, a few min walk back to your destination? Parking directly outside destination in London is often fantasy anyway.

Scotland Tesla service centre might be the problem? We have another member that's had dreadful experience. My London service centre were efficient and brilliant. So it's probably a luck of the draw and I may have been lucky. I bought it outright, I do this as much as possible: save, invest and then buy. 2020-2021 were great for my savings we are on another tech surge now. My Leaf had work done by my local HEVRA garage, admittedly on suspension rather than EV components, but I asked a few EV queries they seem a very knowledgeable bunch. It's only 20min walk from my house.

Leasing a Tesla should have similar experience as buying? Any problem just make a service request via the app and it's taken care of by mobile tech the very next week.

The biggest problem with EV's is that as most people seems to travel at around similar times, clogging up the roads, most EV's will need charging at around similar distances. So for example queues at around 200 miles away from London. For me, I try to do opposite of what other people do. For example, people say charge before going to bed due to warm battery, I charge first thing in the morning and spend a bit energy for the car to pre-heating the battery to get a good charge rate. Have yet to need to queue at any Tesla chargers and it's just ~40p/kWh due to off-peak.

Buy an EV that' doesn't require any servicing to keep warranty EV servicing garages: https://hevra.org.uk/garages.html

But surely you are not driving the car the whole 24 hours every day? Vast majority of cars are parked up vast majority of the time. Need more destination chargers everywhere, they help both BEV's and PHEV's.

Just to clarify, you can wash the window using left stalk push button just like on Mercedes. And now, after recent update, you don't need to take hands off steering wheel to adjust wiper speeds. Press the wiper button and use left scroll wheel left/right to adjust wiper speed. The Tesla heat system "octo-valve" is incredibly efficient. Out of your shortlist, this car is the only car that can take heat from battery (heated up by rapid charging session) into your cabin, not needing to use stored electric energy. Of course, day-to-day home charging won't see this benefit, but I'd argue long distance driving and rapid charging is when one needs this kind of efficiency trick the most.

At time of the paper's publication, they only had 2 full EV's for sale, the Polestar 2 and XC40. Their main claim was based on high vehicle production carbon for XC40. But the numbers are waaaaay too much when compared to other sources such as Tesla and VW ID dedicated EV platform claims on vehicle production carbon emission. This suggests poor manufacturing techniques and bad supply chain.

The Volvo whitepaper claims are hugely biased due to their poor supply chain and badly compromised vehicle platform (not dedicated EV platform). I can't find my post when I quoted a number of other sources that says opposite of Volvo's claims.

Of course not everyone can charge at home, it's a problematic social divide and has been discussed as you are aware. But if you can charge at home via 3-pin charger, you can get proper charge point installed and use it as primary source. If can't get smart meter, you would still be at price-cap. Consumer rates and 5% VAT are much better than public charging at business rates and 20% VAT. As your calculation have demonstrated, charging at home at highest possible rate is still 71% of cost refuelling ICE. I'm only pointing out 2 possibilities to bring it much lower.

40 kWh can also cost as little as £3 with EV tariff. Or completely free charged using solar. Over last 3 sunny weeks, I have charged over 60%, almost 50 kWh completely free on solar. Here's how: https://www.speakev.com/threads/charging-off-excess-solar-using-dumb-charger-and-home-assistant.177813/#post-3441721

Brilliant little EV for local delivery. Need more of those, as said, 60 miles is a lot in city centre, I never felt the need to worry about range driving my Leaf into the city. But I don't think cars belong in the city, Dutch has electric cargo bikes and they do very well.

My thought process is that the reason for cutting across 3 lanes was only done because they haven't paid attention to sat-nav and only caught it in the last second. Why else would people cut across 3 lanes? We gotta look at root cause for cutting across 3 lanes for the exit.

Please pay more attention to your sat-nav. The moment his brake lights turned on, I prepared for something stupid.

Unfortunately there had been an over correction for used EV price at beginning of the year. From very low depreciation to high-ish depreciation in space of a few months. Currently seems to be rock bottom, with burnt dealers not wanting EV stock. Worth hanging on until things stabilise. Quite a few Leaf 40 Tekna is around £12k at the moment on Autotrader, I'm keeping my eye on that as replacement for my wife's car if V2H works well.

Is there Tesla superchargers near or en-route? Tesla network typically have lower price than public charging. ~40p/kWh off-peak (anytime other than the afternoon) for ones I looked. But it's normal for public network to charge over 60p/kWh for rapid charging. I agree the touch screen is not ideal for use when manually driving. But I've no problem using it when autopilot is engaged. They've recently added steering wheel button quick actions for to allow doing more stuff without poking at the touch screen: https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/upcoming-features/id/1336/tesla-update-2023-12-a-look-at-steering-wheel-customization-and-text-size-adjustments Glad to see you've test driven them. Make sure you are happy with the stiff suspension on the Y. The best thing with Enyaq, for me, was the comfy ride. I've heard Ioniq 5 are similarly comfy.

Exactly same for me, that's why I've gone with a Tesla for our long range car. Don't need dual motor I don't think, the acceleration is fun and relentless, but it's entirely optional. Some days I'd use no more than 100 kW (according to data logger). If I were choosing now, I would have bought the standard RWD. It's same car as LR, a little less performance, but due to being more efficient, its range is hasn't dropped by much. Everyone is different, it's worth test driving the cars and see which one makes you feel the best. I would not buy another ICE ever again, so PHEV are out for me. I didn't like Enyaq, feels too much like existing Skoda with batteries, not a bad thing for some people. I considered Kia EV6 but it didn't feel special enough, also some other minor niggles. Hyundai dealer just ignored my phone calls when enquiring about Ioniq 5. The purchase price back in mid-22 were similar across all 3 EV's when spec'd similarly. But Tesla has guaranteed access to their charging network.

It's probably because lane keep assist is really aggressive on Tesla's. Parked car ahead and want to straddle the centre line? sometimes it warns loudly like an emergency. I tolerate it just in case I need it, but I can see why people would turn it off.

Tesla initially built their network exclusively for Tesla's. But are slowly opening it up less busy ones. Until the short charging cable issue is resolved, it is not practical to open all locations due to some locations are extremely busy. It would be very wasteful at busy locations to have cars not yet compatible (due to poor charging stall design) taking up more than 1 space. As long as 1 incompatible (not rear left) car is charging, there will always be at least 1 wasted space. Remember Ionity also give preferential treatment to its sponsoring brands: https://ionity.eu/en/network/access-and-payment Also, there is a subscription to bring price of charging at Tesla superchargers down to same as Tesla cars. It's rather sad to see you feel this way. It is indeed frustrating to arrive and see chargers all being used. But I never got upset when Ionity didn't put in Chademo for Leaf. TBH it's same with Tesla's short cables at busy locations. It is normal for charge point operators to put their sponsoring customers front and centre. The Autopilot camera system is the same between LHD and RHD cars. It has geofencing rules, taking EU mainland cars here and driving UK cars in EU mainland, the autopilot overtaking behaviour changes according to which side it is driving on.