Tesla Model 3 - Help please?

[MrBig]

I expected there to be a number of threads on this subject, but I can't find any except the lead time for orders one?!? If I'm wrong, please point me in the right direction and I will gladly abandon this thread!

Can anyone give me a real world kWh per mile figure for the model 3? My google skills are letting me down. Best guess from USA data I've seen is 0.27 kWh per mile, but the USA is a big place and has some serious variant in weather conditions and other such factors!

Secondly, has anyone managed to get a test drive yet? I just keep being told there are no cars available at the moment.

Anyone who has one able to share their thoughts on it so far?

My Golf GTE is due for a change in about 5-6 months and I'm just doing the maths on going full EV. Currently the Model 3 is the only that sits within budget that I don't hate. (I will be looking closely at the VW ID3 when that launches though)

Im doing 27k private miles a year - fully expensed, so the BIK saving on the Model 3 looks very attractive, even paying for half the electricity myself by charging at home.

Anything else I should consider in my calculations. Obviously range anxiety is a consideration and on that basis the forthcoming Skoda Superb estate PHEV looks ideal, but it would come at a price!

[MrBig]

giorgoxxi said:

I managed to get a test drive quite easily, that was in Westfield London.

It was a Performance model. The car was stupidly quick, handled pretty well given it was all-wheel drive. Quality of the interior was fine, not up to German premium standards but not bad. The screen tech is pretty cool.

Looks are subjective, looks good from some angles, from others not so much. I think the S looks good from every angle in contrast.

I tried autopilot but the fact you had to grip the steering wheel quite hard made it a bit pointless I thought (I could just steer myself in that case). Also auto lane changing was lame, failed so many times, in the end I changed lanes myself. I thought it needed an HUD because its easy to not realise how fast you are going given the speedo is to the left offset.

Have to say though the test drive was only 20 mins so hard to draw definitive conclusions.

If you are looking for an EV then you won't be disappointed for sure.

Apologies, I should have said I want to drive the standard car. Long range and performance are both out of budget. I'm not really fussed about autopilot, I have adaptive cruise on the golf and I barely use that.

I didn't realise the speedo is left offset though! You would think that the hole point of everything being on the central screen is that its easy and cheap to code such changes as putting the speedo on the RHD cars!

[MrBig]

Dave Hedgehog said:

I am avg 300wh / mi in my M3Perf on 20" rims

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sign up for one of the EV power companies so you can charge at 5p / kWh overnight

Great info, thank you.

Can you set the Tesla to charge at certain times and then set the heating for your actual departure time? Following your reply I have just looked at some of those tariffs and they seem to operate 12:30-4:30am for example. On my Golf I couldn't do that and then have it heated up ready to leave at 7:30am.

[MrBig]

Heres Johnny said:

There is no kw per mike figure because it varies in weather, short or long trips, where you drive, how fast you drive etc etc. The car also uses electricity when sitting there doing nothing. in summer you should be as low as 250w/m and in winter 300 odd, maybe as high as 330. Ie between 3 and 4 miles per kWh. Public charging tends to be much more expensive than home charging so your costs will vary more through how you charge. You also need to knock 20% off the range to get a working figure, Tesla don’t recommend regularly charging above 90% and you’d not want to routinely arrive somewhere with less than 10%, it doesn’t take much for that last 10% to disappear, a diversion, held up behind a problem, missing a turning etc

I don’t understand your 25k private miles fully expensed comment as that seems a contradiction.

Sorry, maybe not worded well. Company car with a fuel card for private use. 27k a year with maybe 500-1000 business miles, rest is private.