Model 3 UK orders.
Discussion
GT72 said:
Just placed an order for a Model 3 Performance. To say that I'm excited would be an understatement, went to have a look at one at the weekend and it does look rather good. Not even driven one, but the deal offered was took good to hang about on, unfortunately, it's only available to NHS employees via salary sacrifice.
Congrats! What’s the estimated delivery time you have been given? GT72 said:
No choice on this deal unfortunately. It's Pearl White outside and black on the inside.
Has anyone bought roof bars for a Model 3? My googling suggests that the only bars available are those direct from Tesla at a cost of circa £450. I'd rather not pay that much, but, if that's the only option then I may have little choice.
you need to be very careful fitting roof bars, the glass breaks very easily Has anyone bought roof bars for a Model 3? My googling suggests that the only bars available are those direct from Tesla at a cost of circa £450. I'd rather not pay that much, but, if that's the only option then I may have little choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdxo42elpv8
if you are not already sign up for octopus EV tarriff, you only pay 5p per KWh between 12:30 and 4:30
https://octopus.energy/blog/ev-tariffs/
GT72 said:
No choice on this deal unfortunately. It's Pearl White outside and black on the inside.
Has anyone bought roof bars for a Model 3? My googling suggests that the only bars available are those direct from Tesla at a cost of circa £450. I'd rather not pay that much, but, if that's the only option then I may have little choice.
Taptes has some afik, don't look quite as good but also don't risk cracking the glass. Has anyone bought roof bars for a Model 3? My googling suggests that the only bars available are those direct from Tesla at a cost of circa £450. I'd rather not pay that much, but, if that's the only option then I may have little choice.
I'll likely go tesla when I can and get them to fit
Wow that's a great deal with the NHS scheme! I have just ordered mine too through Gateway2lease, just the standard range+ in Silver. I do 25k a year so the price difference to move up to the long range was just a bit too much to swallow.
Can you still get 1,000 free supercharging miles if you use a discount code on when signing up to the Tesla site? I seem to recall hearing that.
Can you still get 1,000 free supercharging miles if you use a discount code on when signing up to the Tesla site? I seem to recall hearing that.
RobDickinson said:
Taptes has some afik, don't look quite as good but also don't risk cracking the glass.
I'll likely go tesla when I can and get them to fit
Yikes, they're not very attractive. But cheers for highlighting the website, some quite "interesting" accessories available, some more useful than others.I'll likely go tesla when I can and get them to fit
I'm only 10 mins from a Tesla dealer so getting them to fit the proper ones is probably not a bad idea.
GT72 said:
Just placed an order for a Model 3 Performance. To say that I'm excited would be an understatement, went to have a look at one at the weekend and it does look rather good. Not even driven one, but the deal offered was took good to hang about on, unfortunately, it's only available to NHS employees via salary sacrifice.
It's a lease for 10,000 miles per annum on 1+23, including fully comp insurance, maintenance, tyres, breakdown cover, and installation of a charging point at home for the princely sum of £384pcm. Car due to arrive in May.
As a total petrolhead, it'll be interesting to see how I get on with an EV.
My wife is a NHS nurse in the NW region. How would she find this offer?It's a lease for 10,000 miles per annum on 1+23, including fully comp insurance, maintenance, tyres, breakdown cover, and installation of a charging point at home for the princely sum of £384pcm. Car due to arrive in May.
As a total petrolhead, it'll be interesting to see how I get on with an EV.
hab1966 said:
My wife is a NHS nurse in the NW region. How would she find this offer?
Mine's in the NW too, South Manchester. See if her Trust use https://nhsfleetsolutions.co.uk/ and get her to register. You can then get a quote online, although you need a fair amount of information for the first quote, so have a payslip handy.They're currently running lots of good deals on EV's. Looks like they've sold out of the Teslas, but have Merc EQC's for a slightly more than the Tesla. I spoke to them today and they are expecting another batch of Teslas in shortly. I missed out on the last batch and have been checking every day for the last week. It appears that when the become available they sell out within hours.
If you want really cheap motoring then they're doing a Hyundai Ionic for £180pcm, deduct the value of insurance, maintenance, tyres, etc and it's a cost of less than £100pcm for a brand new EV car.
ReformedPistonhead said:
...The Tesla makes the RS3 and the RS6 it replaced feel embarrassing...
I’m in a similar frame of mind; it’s fascinating how attitudes change (and I guess those attitudes will accelerate too).As a lifelong petrolhead (presume we’ll need a new term for that soon!?), I’m genuinely fascinated too to see how this all plays out (in terms of how we as a society will view ice with big engines and then their subsequent values). Interesting times indeed.
NHS salary sacrifice will effect pension pay out, the calculator below helps to work out the numbers.
If you are over the £40k per year tax free pension contribution limit than this might help you reduce the tax bill. I was over by £2k last year, if am over again this year than I might be 'forced' to do some kind of salary sacrifice
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https://www.benefitseveryone.co.uk/salary-sacrific...
If you are over the £40k per year tax free pension contribution limit than this might help you reduce the tax bill. I was over by £2k last year, if am over again this year than I might be 'forced' to do some kind of salary sacrifice
....https://www.benefitseveryone.co.uk/salary-sacrific...
GT72 said:
hab1966 said:
My wife is a NHS nurse in the NW region. How would she find this offer?
Mine's in the NW too, South Manchester. See if her Trust use https://nhsfleetsolutions.co.uk/ and get her to register. You can then get a quote online, although you need a fair amount of information for the first quote, so have a payslip handy.They're currently running lots of good deals on EV's. Looks like they've sold out of the Teslas, but have Merc EQC's for a slightly more than the Tesla. I spoke to them today and they are expecting another batch of Teslas in shortly. I missed out on the last batch and have been checking every day for the last week. It appears that when the become available they sell out within hours.
If you want really cheap motoring then they're doing a Hyundai Ionic for £180pcm, deduct the value of insurance, maintenance, tyres, etc and it's a cost of less than £100pcm for a brand new EV car.
squirdan said:
WattHour per mile, so basically your energy used to travel a mile. Like MPG for EV's.It's also the unit that is on your electricity bill (usually in kWh and the unit public chargers will charge you in.
Lower is better of course.
400 seems like A LOT to me. A model 3 LR battery holds about 70kWh. So 70 000 Wh. Divide that by 400 and you'd have a range of 175 mi from full to empty.
My model S does about 300 and I don't exactly feather it.
Edited by ZesPak on Thursday 23 January 10:34
squirdan said:
i am averaging 325 at the moment in winter, but have seen over 500 in very heavy traffic on very cold daysWH/m is your mpg its pretty simple to understand
a 100 watt old school light bulb will burn 100 watts an hour so 4 of them would burn 400 watts an hour, 10 would burn 1000watts or 1 kilowatt per hour, so a 75kw battery could power (ignoring losses) 10 100 watt bulbs for 75 hours
if a car burns 333 watts per mile it will be able to travel 3 miles per kilo watt or 225 miles on a full 75 kilo watt battery (ignoring losses)
it amazes me that you can drive around in a 2 tonne car and use less energy than 4 old light bulbs (or nearly 5 cars v a now banned 1600watt hoover)
squirdan said:
Similar to mine if driven to enjoy rather than worrying about efficiency, which for me is always the case or why bother getting the Performance version. Bad weather and constant heating will also be having a significant affect at this time of year in the UK of course. I'm expecting to see much closer to 300 once the weather improves but either way still far cheaper to run than any comparable performing ICE car so why worry about it? If you're planning on a longer trip then driving strategy would change I'm sure to push up the range.
Dave Hedgehog said:
it amazes me that you can drive around in a 2 tonne car and use less energy than 4 old light bulbs (or nearly 5 cars v a now banned 1600watt hoover)
I recently swapped 18x 50w GU10 halogen bulbs in a family member’s kitchen to 5w LED equivalents. (They’d only recently moved in and inherited the halogens from the previous owner).We estimated the kitchen lights are on 5 hours a day on average throughout the year (they are retired).
The energy saving per year is nearly 1,500 kWh (and the cost saving in electricity is £190 each year).
The lifetime average of my i3 is 4.2 miles per kWh.
So, the energy saved by swapping those light bulbs (with no discernible loss of light output) is enough to drive my car 6,300 miles, every year.
Mind boggling.
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