16 hours ago, TonyTonic said:

How's the real life useability of your Leaf? Living in a flat without access to charger at home here. Is it realistic to look at electric now or wait a bit more?

At risk of going off topic, hope a single reply is enough:

 

My daily commute is a shade under 60 miles, mostly motorway. My almost 5 years old Leaf does this no problem in summer, 100% down to 25-30%. Last winter, it's a bit marginal, lowest I've arrive home with 10%. But any day that had temperature below 0c I'd drive my Skoda with all-season tyres, so it is possible Leaf would not make the 60 miles journey without charging in worst winter days.

 

Battery health is down to 86%, at 85% I'll loose the first health bar in the dashboard. 5 years 15% degradation is not bad. Next few years it'd be my summer commute car. Long term, as my current 18m son starts going to nursery/school, our Leaf will become wife's local runabout. <10 miles a day. She is happy to drive it (doesn't like change) until it is beyond economical repair (probably suspension will be the reason).

 

Living in a flat won't allow you to wake up with 100% charge. I would not consider these shorter range EV's. Public charging is just too much hassle. I'd only consider long range EV's like Model 3, e-Niro, Kona EV, etc. Unfortunately, for affordable second hand ones, you may have to wait a while.

 

As mentioned, if you can somehow get charger installed for your allocated parking space. Thus guarantee a charge overnight, these existing second hand short range EV's will work very well.

1 hour ago, wyx087 said:

At risk of going off topic, hope a single reply is enough:

 

My daily commute is a shade under 60 miles, mostly motorway. My almost 5 years old Leaf does this no problem in summer, 100% down to 25-30%. Last winter, it's a bit marginal, lowest I've arrive home with 10%. But any day that had temperature below 0c I'd drive my Skoda with all-season tyres, so it is possible Leaf would not make the 60 miles journey without charging in worst winter days.

 

Battery health is down to 86%, at 85% I'll loose the first health bar in the dashboard. 5 years 15% degradation is not bad. Next few years it'd be my summer commute car. Long term, as my current 18m son starts going to nursery/school, our Leaf will become wife's local runabout. <10 miles a day. She is happy to drive it (doesn't like change) until it is beyond economical repair (probably suspension will be the reason).

 

Living in a flat won't allow you to wake up with 100% charge. I would not consider these shorter range EV's. Public charging is just too much hassle. I'd only consider long range EV's like Model 3, e-Niro, Kona EV, etc. Unfortunately, for affordable second hand ones, you may have to wait a while.

 

As mentioned, if you can somehow get charger installed for your allocated parking space. Thus guarantee a charge overnight, these existing second hand short range EV's will work very well.

Thank you. I am trying to sort something out in the garage downstairs but so far the developer and maintenance company are in 'negotiation' whether to install communal points for all or individual (chargeable) points for each parking space. I don't see this going anywhere.

Today Daimler announced the end of their ICE development and town hall should understand exactly what that means.

You can’t get a much more clear signal of the need for infrastructure.

1 hour ago, TonyTonic said:

the developer and maintenance company are in 'negotiation'

Unless the block is leasehold, I don't see where the developer comes into it?

19 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

Unless the block is leasehold, I don't see where the developer comes into it?

Maintenance company sorry, Running the building on their behalf/

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 October, 20196 yr by vrskeith

Tesla shares drop 6% in the USA as they released sales figures for the last quarter of 97,000 sales which was lower than analysts expected.

It's around the same as last quarter, a hair better.

 

I'm not sure what the "analysts" base their expectation on. Tesla hasn't revamped their manufacturing, so similar numbers is to be expected.

 

One got to question how much vested interest these "analysts" have, are they making profits from wild stock price swings?

 

Sat in and closely  inspected one the other day and will be test driving in a couple of weeks. 
 

 

Edited 12 October, 20196 yr by TonyTonic

China production of the Model 3 starts on Monday apparently.

Not much news about it though and I’m not surprised.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/tesla-gets-final-approval-start-production-china

 

2 hours ago, vrskeith said:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/tesla-gets-final-approval-start-production-china

 

You’d think they could have shown the Shanghai factory (easily found picture) instead of the Nevada one in the desert.

 

With President Xi onboard it’s difficult to see how Tesla is safely established into the future........even with their current downturn.

 

A ‘track mode’ Model 3 as an option -

 

https://electrek.co/2019/10/17/tesla-track-mode-package/

Tesla has returned to profitability......Wall Street is happy apparently.....not so sure about the shorts though .

Strangely when other established auto companies make losses there’s hardly a murmur.

Don't you worry, the shorts will think of something else. They just need a few days to talk amonst themselves to agree what their imaginary needle looks like, in the huge hay stack that is Tesla's success. 

 

Edited 25 November, 20196 yr by vrskeith