Are Teslas any good?

[steamship]

Originally Posted by tintin

It took a fair bit of persuasion to get both Audi and Tesla to pitch up at the Portmeirion meet, though I think it was worth it

Most definitely

[tintin]

Still yes to Jim's original question. And very cheap, if your name is Jonny
£5k for a Tesla P90D : well worth a watch 👌🏼
https://youtu.be/t1aI7EfSnmE?si=ed3L0TCHRjes-Q8l

[HPsauce]

Old thread revival and all that.....
Last night I was at a petrolhead mini-meet in Buckingham of all places, mainly an excuse to have a good curry and talk car bollocks for a couple of hours.
One of the guys rolled up in an electric Kia, can't even recall what model (and does it matter?). Turned out it was on rental; provided by his work as he was travelling some distance daily to a project for a few weeks and wasn't prepared to use one of his own tasty cars to do the journey.

Anyway, the point is, he said he was mightily impressed by it. This is someone who has a Porsche among others, used to run a D2 A8 4.2, whose father had a D2 S8 and now has a D4, etc. etc.

PS He reckons the D2 was the best car he's ever had.

[tintin]

Originally Posted by HPsauce

Old thread revival and all that.....
Last night I was at a petrolhead mini-meet in Buckingham of all places, mainly an excuse to have a good curry and talk car bollocks for a couple of hours.
One of the guys rolled up in an electric Kia, can't even recall what model (and does it matter?). Turned out it was on rental; provided by his work as he was travelling some distance daily to a project for a few weeks and wasn't prepared to use one of his own tasty cars to do the journey.

Anyway, the point is, he said he was mightily impressed by it. This is someone who has a Porsche among others, used to run a D2 A8 4.2, whose father had a D2 S8 and now has a D4, etc. etc.

PS He reckons the D2 was the best car he's ever had.

Kia , along with Renault, currently make the best EVs, in my opinion: I'd take an EV from them ahead of any of the German manufacturers current products, any day.

[gninnam]

Originally Posted by tintin

Kia , along with Renault, currently make the best EVs, in my opinion: I'd take an EV from them ahead of any of the German manufacturers current products, any day.

I'll get me coat then

[tonupkid]

..... And me .....

[sarg]

Originally Posted by tintin

Kia , along with Renault, currently make the best EVs, in my opinion: I'd take an EV from them ahead of any of the German manufacturers current products, any day.

Tango the Ioniq 5N has settled very well in to the Sargent household. I find the seats more comfortable than our 3-series, Mrs S is grabbing the keys and taking it every chance

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by sarg

Tango the Ioniq 5N has settled very well in to the Sargent household. I find the seats more comfortable than our 3-series, Mrs S is grabbing the keys and taking it every chance

My boss has had Ioniq 5 as company car for about about 3 years, but most of it's time it has spent back at the dealership, mostly because 12V battery going flat. They have done software updates, changed 12V battery and onboard charger but it keeps happening.

[sarg]

Originally Posted by ainarssems

My boss has had Ioniq 5 as company car for about about 3 years, but most of it's time it has spent back at the dealership, mostly because 12V battery going flat. They have done software updates, changed 12V battery and onboard charger but it keeps happening.

Just about every EV I researched had some reported issues with 12v batteries

With the Ioniq, the most frequent resolution is to replace the OEM battery, which is notoriously poor quality, with an AGM battery.

I've not experience any issues, but if I do, I'll be doing this