Are Teslas any good?

[tintin]

Worth a watch (part 1 of 2 on BBC 1 - the part 1 broadcast is just finishing now):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-electric-cars

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by tintin

Hope you enjoy the trip - would love to hear how you get on with this

The travel up to Berlin is a breathe, plenty of Tesla superchargers and facilities there if you want to eat or relive yourself. But most of toilets are paid access 1€. We did not have any change and ATM was out of order so had to rather embarrassingly limbo under hight restricted fee toilet for kids.

We almost missed ferry, we had 5:05 DFDS booked, arrived in port are 3:30, was put in staging lane and was there for 1h. Last check in was supposed to be 4:20 but we only got to check in at 5:04, 1 min before scheduled departure time. But still got on ship and there was plenty of card behind us. We boarded around 5:15 and it sailed 5:20

From the Calais it was smooth, we weere using Tesla's built in Nav and also running ABRP on the phone.

After the Berlin it got a bit more challenging, supercharger Poznan is in the old city, a bit hard to find and on restricted area. You have 30min free in there So had to pay 6PLN/£1.20 for parking. We had a room booked in Poznan but finding a place to park was a major challenge. Will not be staying there again. We skipped Warsaw supercharger as that was a bit off motorway route and we were worried it would be similar to Poznan. So we went straight to Bialystok, hard to find in the car park under shopping center, Tesla just takes you to car park entrance and no instructions on ho w to find charger. Had to search on Google and found details on plugshare. Then Kaunas in Lithuania

[donp38]

Well.
I see the D2 S8 as Concord for the road trip.

Have a think.
Anyone agree?

[ainarssems]

We are back home. Sorry, ended the previous post abruptly as started writing
while eating for other people, then stopped when they arrived. Will add a bit more detail and the return journey later.

Done almost 3.6k miles in 2 weeks and used a cool MWh of electricity. Or more like 3.2k miles in 4 days and the rest in remainder of 2 weeks Did not doo much driving while there. Spent €33 on charging while there including to power up for the 1st leg back to get to Kaunas supercharger

[tintin]

Sounds like a great trip , including covering 3000 miles for a total of £33 . They are such great road trip cars - I'm setting off on my trip later today, looking forward to it too .

[tintin]

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesm...months-of-2023 (@ £45-£60k) - and #2 was the Dacia Sandero (@ £13k)

[donp38]

I suspect
1 is due to BIK
2 value for money

I personally don't want either.

[tintin]

Originally Posted by The_Laird

I bet that got a reaction from those who've driven them!

But look at this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...=BBD082615_BIZ

Eight years on, maybe Jim's question is the wrong one now? This is worth a (15 minute) watch for those who are interested :https://youtu.be/VKvLM6MS6WI?si=RLZYOm3Fjc1TjnF9

[donp38]

Go and have a drive of a GYB...
You have your answer then.

However for a long range 'land yacht'.... S8 D2 every day...

[HPsauce]

Interesting article on CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/18/b...las/index.html
One quote is "Controlling speed is especially critical in low-speed environments, like parking garages, with other cars and concrete posts all around. With gas cars, starting off from a stop requires the engine to rev up a bit before the car can start moving. Not so with EVs, which respond differently to pedal pressure."

Now I've never driven an EV in such an environment, though "out and about" on test drives they seemed natural enough. What I am used to is carefully using the clutch or on an automatic creeping against the brake. Is there anything similar on any EV?

Incidentally I also find the "start-stop" functionality of modern petrol cars can be a nightmare when parking, so I invariably turn it off (fortunately I can easily) on my Volvo.