Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?

[KungFooBob]

All the profit is in the expenses.

[ZRX61]

There does seem to be an awful lot of car fires near you. Is there something you want to share .... ?

For some reason they combust climbing up the hill from LA, & they do it before they get to the 3400ft high point of the freeway before heading down this side of the mountains to the desert floor (2400ft ASL).
My truck makes the climb with the AC on full blast & the temp gauge needle barely reaches the *N* in *normal*, ST also runs fine up the hill... ditto the ZRX11 & ZX11

One problem here is all the plastic crap they now use in fuel systems, ferinstance, the under hood fuel filter on newer Ford F series is plastic*, & is known to crack with fairly obvious consequences of spraying fuel all over the engine bay... & this applies to both gas & diesel engines.

*My F350 filter is cast aluminum.

[Count Steer]

So the transporter caught fire and took 5 Teslas with it?

[Taipan]

So the transporter caught fire and took 5 Teslas with it?

Or did 5/Teslas catch fire and take the transporter out!

[Count Steer]

So the transporter caught fire and took 5 Teslas with it?

Or did 5/Teslas catch fire and take the transporter out!

Well, he did say that vehicles going up that hill or whatever catch fire. I assumed it wouldn't be the ones that weren't running at the time.

[demographic]

Seems that in a falling car market BYD is bucking the trend and increasing sales and Tesla are not selling so well, discounts available on them.

[Taipan]

So the transporter caught fire and took 5 Teslas with it?

Or did 5/Teslas catch fire and take the transporter out!

Well, he did say that vehicles going up that hill or whatever catch fire. I assumed it wouldn't be the ones that weren't running at the time.

But, what if Musk programmed Teslas to catch fire when on transporters so there were no transporters to recover ICE vehicles, this leaving Terminators, sorry, my bad, Teslas to dominate the roads!

[demographic]

So, some Teslas programmed to catch fire and some not?

Two tier Teslas?

[Mussels]

So, some Teslas programmed to catch fire and some not?

Two tier Teslas?

They are programmed to catch fire if they sense the vehicle moving but not the wheels, if it doesn't reach the dealer then it doesn't get counted in reliability stats.

[Horse]

Tesla are not selling so well, discounts available on them.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla ... 17946.html

(Reuters) -British motorists can now lease a Tesla electric vehicle for just over half of what they would have paid a year ago, The Times reported on Monday, citing industry sources.

Tesla has been forced to offer discounts of up to 40% to car leasing companies to shift more units, the report said.

The discounts are also due to the lack of storage space for Tesla vehicles in the UK, the report said.

[ZRX61]

So the transporter caught fire and took 5 Teslas with it?

Or did 5/Teslas catch fire and take the transporter out!

Well, he did say that vehicles going up that hill or whatever catch fire. I assumed it wouldn't be the ones that weren't running at the time.

This was the SB 5, not the NB 14, so it was going downhill. It appears the fire started in the truck, which caught the first Tesla on fire, then the FD were unable to prevent it spreading to the other 4 in spite of closing the freeway & having multiple fire trucks on the scene, some pics show about 9 or 10.

[Rockburner]

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla ... 17946.html

(Reuters) -British motorists can now lease a Tesla electric vehicle for just over half of what they would have paid a year ago, The Times reported on Monday, citing industry sources.

Tesla has been forced to offer discounts of up to 40% to car leasing companies to shift more units, the report said.

The discounts are also due to the lack of storage space for Tesla vehicles in the UK, the report said.

I doubt we've run out of old airfields.....

[Mr. Dazzle]

Just had a look on 'The Scheme'* at work, if Teslas are getting mega lease fleet discounts it hasn't filtered down to me yet

*We have two. A standard salary sacrifice EV scheme which can be any brand but only EVs, then one which is the OEM I work for only with huge discount, but only a limited number of models which might be EVs, Hybrid or ICE.

[KungFooBob]

Just had a look on 'The Scheme'* at work, if Teslas are getting mega lease fleet discounts it hasn't filtered down to me yet

*We have two. A standard salary sacrifice EV scheme which can be any brand but only EVs, then one which is the OEM I work for only with huge discount, but only a limited number of models which might be EVs, Hybrid or ICE.

I still wouldn't get a Tesla (soz Tiepin), They're ten a penny, look bland by modern standards and there's the whole 'Elon' thing.

I was tempted by the BYD Seal, all the reviews said they were lovely inside and very fast, but weren't very engaging to drive/handled like a barge.

[Mr. Dazzle]

They're all 10 year old designs now, they were ahead of the curve in terms of drive train when they launched but the curve has moved.

[Horse]

The discounts are also due to the lack of storage space for Tesla vehicles in the UK, the report said.

I doubt we've run out of old airfields.....

It's been getting worse for several years, caused me grief when trying to book test sites.

eg I used Bruntingthorpe a few times. Heyford is only partially available (main runway booked 365 by another company).

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[gremlin]

I'm calling bullshit on that bottom photo. It's clearly the M20 as you get past Maidstone.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Mr FiL's ashes are underneath the tarmac at Bruntingthrope. He was a founding member of the Lightning Perseveration Group there and spent nearly every free weekend tinkering with their planes.

I doubt he'd be pleased to know he's under a car storage yard now.

[ZRX61]

Mr FiL's ashes are underneath the tarmac at Bruntingthrope. He was a founding member of the Lightning Perseveration Group there and spent nearly every free weekend tinkering with their planes.

I doubt he'd be pleased to know he's under a car storage yard now.

Richard III....

[Taff]

We've been EV shopping today and didn't really get much further than the Audi garage.
We chatted to a salesman for the best part of an hour about the Q4 and all the different options, and then he gave us the keys to a used 45 quarto and told us to make sure we thrashed it and had fun

So we did.

We're very very impressed. Without the car binging and nagging you about speeding the wife would be banned in no time. She was doing silly speeds without realizing ,
When he said signing up for a September delivery could be at approx £12k below list price it makes it very tempting.

We went to have a look at Volvo because we've had a v40 for 7 years. The ex30 is fucking awful inside, and the electric xc40 very meh, so we were in and out in 15 mins.

Just around the corner is VW and Cupra, the Born is very funky inside and out and actually looks like a hot hatch. It was too late in the day to drive one so we may go back at some point.