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To me it's real simple, all teslas look great they are unbelievably fast ( literally the quickest cars on the road) they plan to make a more affordable one and it can tow,  & they are a green car which all companies are more than happy to enforce on us.
So for me the car tax will be low, it will cost me nowt to run and whatever teething problems they have will be sorted under warranty, as for the batteries you get a 8 year warranty 
People keep talking about the Nissan Leaf, in my eyes it's ugly,slow,has a crap range & it's a Nissan 
As already said this car will change the future of all cars, all the other manufactures will have to up the anti to compete,
just imagine the only cost for a weekend away is your pitch fees, for me that's a big plus making my ever increasing hobby more cost effective
I'd be pretty certain the residuals would be very high for the 1st 7 years as well,
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Message posted by Colin21 on 17/8/2016 at 10:53pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 17/8/2016
Well the Tesla Model S was first on the road from 2012, plenty of those around some with over 100k miles on the clock.
Plenty of folk have fitted towbars to their Model S, even though as far as I am aware the Model S has never been type approved for having a tow bar fitted.
The Model 3 will be tow bar type approved, it has been said.
I am not sure how Tesla have got around the problems related to fast charging, but they have.
I personally feel that E.V. technology has been held back on purpose, it surely must be a big concern for the oil producers.
Tesla cars may have been around a while, but not in any quantity. I have never seen even one.
Regarding fitting tow-bars, towing with any vehicle will reduce the distance it can travel without refuelling, and the Tesla will be no different. I wonder what the range would be with a caravan in tow.
I too agree that EV technology has been deliberately held back, as it will hit the oil industry hard. In my opinion, if the oil industry was seriously concerned about the Tesla, they would have thrown everything in their considerable power at it, possibly even buying it up to stop it. I'm sure that's happened before with other technologies. The fact that they haven't tells me that they aren't in the least bothered, which means that either they know Tesla's claims are grossly overstated, or that Tesla will never sell enough to bother them. I'd love to see the oil industry "given a bloody nose" so let's hope Tesla can pull it off.
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Message posted by Francais on 18/8/2016 at 6:45am
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Yep I had to do a double take the other day, when I noticed a Red Tesla Model S parked up in our village, don't think the owner lives here as I have not seen it since.
And a couple of weeks back I noticed another Blue Tesla Model S going along the M66, so they are about.
Of course the Tesla Model S is a completely different ball of wax to what will be the Model 3, in fact the story behind why it's called the Model 3 and not the Model E as was first planned, you will laugh at that one if you don't already know.
So the Model S is close on £100k fully loaded, whilst the Model 3 will land in the UK at just under £30k knock £5k of for the UK E.V subsidy, and your into the same price range as a decent Mondeo and lower end Beamers.
The Model S of course appeals to the higher end of the market, especially company car drivers who are well up the food chain, as the CC BIK car tax, is a fraction of that for an ICE £100k car.
This why I think that the Model 3 will be a big hit for company car fleets in the UK, which will be great for the used marked, I can see a three year old Model 3 going for well under £10k and that will be interesting to many folk, as the car will still have 5 years warranty, add to that virtually zero fuel and servicing cost's it's happy days.
Tesla have sold over 140,000 cars since they started around 2010, not a huge number compared to the main stream car manufacturers but a considerable number none the less.
Production is ramping up, with 90,000 cars being produced this year alone, and next year will see a massive step change as they will need to produce around 400,000 cars, with the introduction of the Model 3, full production is expected by 2020 seeing 500,000 EV's being produced each year, an ambitious target it has to be said.
Of course for me as a CC driver the firm issuing me with an E.V. would in actual fact see me out of pocket, with the added hassle of having to charge at least once each day, but I guess that's the price of progress and I don't have any say in the matter.
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Message posted by Francais on 18/8/2016 at 11:58am
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You could well be more on the mark than me Bessie, I have not bought my own car since before 1985, I used to go down to the auctions to buy my car's back in those days.
So having driven company cars for the last 31 years, I am very much out of touch with used car prices.
I did inquire about buying one of the firms VW Golf TDi BlueMotion's a couple of years back for a friend, I think the new list price was around £20k and at just under 3 years old with 85k miles on the clock, they were going through the auction's for about £7,500 they thought that was OK and bought one, not sure what the forecourt price was though, probably a little more but with a lot less miles on.
One thing though, the thought of having to buy my own car and maintain it does scare the hell out of me, not to mention having to pay for the fuel to make it go, I am not sure how others manage to do it!, so maybe when I retire a used Tesla Model 3 may be the car for me, if I can afford one, and I will have all the time in the world to charge it up, hopefully at some one else's expense.
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