Decision Time - Tesla MYLR or not?

[ColdoRS]

PushedDover said:

But range and chargers / away from home charging HAVE to also come in to the equation with EV car buying.
Not mentioned here yet


And for us, with dogs and carrying capacity: a hatch back

Not with a Tesla, that's the thing. Charging a Tesla out and about is as easy as using the sat nav; it will take you to the most efficient Tesla supercharger location for your trip - there's loads of them, if you get caught out you're an idiot, its so easy.

[Fastlane]

MarkM2 said:

After all that, I ended up getting a M3LR, not MYLR, on a PCP now Tesla have updated their PCPs for personal customers to 0% - it works out cheaper over the same term (£0 deposit) per month than our Octopus SS. Not hesitating and missing it, probably shifting with the new facelift out in November or so. And I don't have to get a white one ;-). Thanks for all the input guys!!

I am on my second (white!) Model 3, and I think they are a great all round package. That finance deal looks good.

[PushedDover]

ColdoRS said:

PushedDover said:

But range and chargers / away from home charging HAVE to also come in to the equation with EV car buying.
Not mentioned here yet


And for us, with dogs and carrying capacity: a hatch back

Not with a Tesla, that's the thing. Charging a Tesla out and about is as easy as using the sat nav; it will take you to the most efficient Tesla supercharger location for your trip - there's loads of them, if you get caught out you're an idiot, its so easy.

Crossed charger wires I think.

I agree, as a MLR owner.

i am saying where others suggest 'better' EV's, for me to move away from the Tesla simplicity charging on the road would need a comparable, available en masse and speed convenience- or it does not work.

[MarkM2]

Fastlane said:

I am on my second (white!) Model 3, and I think they are a great all round package. That finance deal looks good.

cheers lad, I don't mind the white M3 at all actually, but white on the MY is a bit 'much' for my little driveway I did suggest white last night to the Mrs for the M3 but she preferred Grey...

What IS weird is that on their inventory, you order one (it LOOKS like it's the only one of its kind available, for the price (and there's no more at that price)), it tells you where it's located, you go through the rigmarole, THEN you look at the inventory again after purchase and there's another one, same spec and price (again, only one), located somewhere else! (in this case, NEARER to me!)... Are they just dripping these on to make them look like 'can't miss that' cars?

[Evanivitch]

MarkM2 said:

cheers lad, I don't mind the white M3 at all actually, but white on the MY is a bit 'much' for my little driveway I did suggest white last night to the Mrs for the M3 but she preferred Grey...

What IS weird is that on their inventory, you order one (it LOOKS like it's the only one of its kind available, for the price (and there's no more at that price)), it tells you where it's located, you go through the rigmarole, THEN you look at the inventory again after purchase and there's another one, same spec and price (again, only one), located somewhere else! (in this case, NEARER to me!)... Are they just dripping these on to make them look like 'can't miss that' cars?

Yes. No. Probably. Maybe.

[MarkM2]

Evanivitch said:

Yes. No. Probably. Maybe.

loooool

[ColdoRS]

PushedDover said:

ColdoRS said:

PushedDover said:

But range and chargers / away from home charging HAVE to also come in to the equation with EV car buying.
Not mentioned here yet


And for us, with dogs and carrying capacity: a hatch back

Not with a Tesla, that's the thing. Charging a Tesla out and about is as easy as using the sat nav; it will take you to the most efficient Tesla supercharger location for your trip - there's loads of them, if you get caught out you're an idiot, its so easy.

Crossed charger wires I think.

I agree, as a MLR owner.

i am saying where others suggest 'better' EV's, for me to move away from the Tesla simplicity charging on the road would need a comparable, available en masse and speed convenience- or it does not work.

Ah, apologies! Serves me right for not reading the whole thread.

Completely agree in that case. I would love a Taycan Sport Turismo; I think they look great but the hit and miss public charge infrastructure put me off to the point I got another Tesla instead (went from a 3 to a Y).

[wyson]

Snow and Rocks said:

I'm not sure why you think the MYLR is less comfortable than the M3LR? We've had both and while there's not much in it, the Y does ride a bit better and obviously has more space. Don't get me wrong, they both ride pretty poorly with lots of road noise but the Y edges it IMHO.

Tesla iterates so quickly, you don’t know what you are going to get. At any one time there can be different versions of the Model Y on sale across the world, because the hardware is rolled out across their factories at different rates. I tried an early Model Y without the parcel shelf, it had terrible ride quality, the worst I have ever experienced in a standard factory car. Back then, everyone said the Model 3 rode much better than the Y.

Insurance is also tricky, Model Y quotes were double equivalent petrol hybrid SUV’s I was also looking at. Was watching a video, the repair infrastructure isn’t there yet for a battery electric vehicles and cars with relatively minor damage are just written off if there are question marks over the integrity of the battery pack. Tesla’s cast gigapress construction is also raising a lot of repairability questions, because castings of that size haven’t been done before. Body shops currently can't repair the special aluminium alloy, nor create the intricate shapes the casting process allows. Musk is aiming for the Y and 3 to have a 3 component structure. 2 castings, 1 front and 1 rear with a structural battery pack in the middle. Currently if one of the castings is damaged, the whole car will have to be written off. This uncertainty feeds into the insurance rates.

Edited by wyson on Saturday 22 July 11:58