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As it stands, the second hand ICE market is a lottery of hacked, bodged, remapped, de catted, de-dpf'd hotch potch that can lead to some big bills. Or you buy the car new, and weep with the depreciation. I agree that battery technology isn't proven. But, what is proven, is residuals on old Ev's. you try and buy a 'cheap' second hand EV, and you can't - because they're still great cars, and very desirable. There are Telsas with silly mileage on them, still commanding good money. And why ? Well, because they might have started life with a 250 mile range, and now 'only' do 150, but really, that's more than enough for most people. It really is. I can count with my socks and shoes still on how many times I've ///needed/// to take my Tesla more than 150 miles non stop. My model 3 has lost less money than any car I can recall in my car history. Its ridiculous. For a long time, it was worth more than I paid for it ! Its in positive equity right now. If I sold it, I'd get cash back for sure. And what is this annual maintenance you speak of ? 2K ??. + fuel costs + repair costs + tax disk. Are you sure this is only a 5 to 10K car, because the costs seem to be mounting. I no longer pay for fuel. Well, I do. But honestly its like trying to count how much I spend on drinking water from the tap. Its trivial. Yes, batteries will hold less charge over time (I've not watched mine closely enough to notice) but they will still be ample for most purposes. None of this 'has it been ragged with cold oil', 'how often was the oil changed', 'did you service the gearbox' - What the heck is a gearbox ? ;-) It does need a leap of faith to get on this bandwagon. Hats off to Stephen for being the first I've known. He showed me his, and I still had doubts. Only by jumping in the deep end, have I seen the light - and I think any EV owner would concur. Don't confuse stuffing some batteries and a motor in a regular car, and calling it an EV as being progress. Audi did that and shame on them. I do like quality, I did like Audi - but Telsa are in a whole different league of innovation, and continuous innovation at that. Their build quality isn't Germanic - but its a dam sight better than I was expecting. Very tolerable indeed. If you want a classic car as a daily, and like tinkering and DIY maintenance. 'Cheap' ICE is still for you, for now. If you want a new daily driver, then unless you're in a block of flats or have no hope of charging it at home, then really, EV is the way forward.
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Teslas any good?
Yes, but Hyundai are a pretty close second, and the Ioniq 5 is really rather nice:
https://youtu.be/LCktPB_XewM
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A review of the Etron GT here from Jonny Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocR-BIWFEv4
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Interesting article I'm reading in the latest issue of New Scientist, about "Mechanical Batteries".
Basically an array of flywheels, but the researchers working on them reckon they can get better energy/mass ratio than Lithium-ion. No issues of mining rare materials or chemical degradation after a number charge/discharge cycles. And potentially, depending how managed, is capable of delivering very large short-term bursts of power, so it's the US military are leading this. Could be interesting, due to gyroscopic effects, in as moving vehicle though.... And with a suitable "charger" can probably be refreshed fairly rapidly too.
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Have been looking at buying a new car, well not new but another and I do not like what I see for the prices that are being asked. So I have been expanding my search to include brand new Leaf and now also considering used Model S. They are still very expensive starting from £25k and 4wd from £30k. With that kind of money it would have to be 4wd and real make or brake question is does it come with transferrable free supercharging and how to easily find out for each car. If I can get free SC it does make sense for me to buy one. I understand that on 2017+ cars free SC are not transferrable but how to tell for earlier car?
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The other key points to bear in mind are (fairly obviously, probably...): Questions: 1) how much of the battery/drivetrain warranty is remaining (it's 8 years/unlimited mileage)? 2) has the centre screen/MCU been replaced already? Considerations: A) the increasing value of lifetime free supercharging, where available: some (lots!) of Tesla - and other - EV owners are starting to grumble about increasing EV charging rates, both at Tesla SuCs and other chargers. The consequence of that will be that cars with transferable free supercharging will hold their value/be worth more as this trend continues. B) the low running cost, other than "fuel", of these cars. Once you've bought it, the running cost is comparatively minimal. I hope this helps - the bad news is Tesla production is already sold out until 2022, and for that reason it's harder than usual to get hold of used stock, as those who want a Tesla this year are having to trawl the used market: Mark/Moltuae's lovely P100D found a new home almost instantly, so it may be hard to find one at a good price.
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It would have to be early 2014-2016 car for me anyway to be cheaper and also has to have free SC. I see a lot of them does not have free SC advertised. Not sure if they do not have it, not transferrable or it's lack of knowledge or just forgotten to mention. I am hoping some dealers does not know what they are selling so if it's not advertised but has free SC I might get better value deal.
Any comments on this? https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...very-option=on Edit: Never mind, looks like they recycled advert and but did not change title, car is actually rwd. Seemed too good to be true for P85D Are the extra 2 seats foldable or easily removable when not needed?
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