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The Tesla model 3 can drive for 6 hours at an average speed of 55mph on a single charge and can be charged outside your house if off street parking.
If you're on a motorway doing a 70moh the supercharger network would allow you to top up in five or ten minutes to complete your six hour journey and if you were driving for six hours non stop on a motorway you should really of had a rest or comfort break of at least ten minutes anyway.

And how much do they cost?
 
The Tesla model 3 can drive for 6 hours at an average speed of 55mph on a single charge and can be charged outside your house if off street parking.
If you're on a motorway doing a 70moh the supercharger network would allow you to top up in five or ten minutes to complete your six hour journey and if you were driving for six hours non stop on a motorway you should really of had a rest or comfort break of at least ten minutes anyway.
The vast majority of my driving would suite electric but going to me mothers at 425 miles each way would require too much farting around when my goal is to get there as soon as possible
It’s bad enough looking at the fuel gage now but having to do the stop start 2 or 3 times on a trip isn’t something I’m going to buy into at the cost of a tesla or similar
 
It was £620 a month on my lease plan.

Prohibitely expensive for your average person. The cheapest is about £50k
It was £620 a month on my lease plan.
However, the Kia E Niro 64kW has a similar range and is only £350

The kia is still a £30k car, and won't have access to the tesla supercharge network.

Until price, charge speeds, and access to chargers are addressed, then you won't get a mass take up of EV's
 
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Prohibitely expensive for your average person. The cheapest is about £50k


The kia is still a £30k car, and won't have access to the tesla supercharge network.

Until price, charge speeds, and access to chargers are addressed, then you won't get a mass take up of EV's
Is this super charge thing on Tesla like how Apple have their own charger leads ?
surely it should be one point fits all??
 
Is this super charge thing on Tesla like how Apple have their own charger leads ?
surely it should be one point fits all??
They’re opening them up to all cars. Just started the trial in Holland. But you can get other non branded fast superchargers for other evs anyway. It’s not just a Tesla thing.
 
Is this super charge thing on Tesla like how Apple have their own charger leads ?
surely it should be one point fits all??

Apparently there's a few different types of connectors, and need a box of adapters.

At the minute only tesla can super charge on one of their super chargers, but they're starting to trial it for non tesla cars
 
Prohibitely expensive for your average person. The cheapest is about £50k

I don't understand why they're so expensive as I believed what you're essentially paying for is the depreciation cost over the x amount of years you're leasing it and I wouldn't expect Teslas to depreciate that much.
 
I don't understand why they're so expensive as I believed what you're essentially paying for is the depreciation cost over the x amount of years you're leasing it and I wouldn't expect Teslas to depreciate that much.

I'm guessing it's the battery, as over time they'll hold less charge.

Combined with the expectation that prices will drop in next few years when take up increases
 
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Prohibitely expensive for your average person. The cheapest is about £50k


The kia is still a £30k car, and won't have access to the tesla supercharge network.

Until price, charge speeds, and access to chargers are addressed, then you won't get a mass take up of EV's
Tesla are developing the model 1 which will cost an estimated £18k and be available to buy in a couple of years
 
Tesla are developing the model 1 which will cost an estimated £18k and be available to buy in a couple of years

This one?


Only 180 mile range, which means in reality will only do 150. So it's still expensive considering the poor range.
 
This one?


Only 180 mile range, which means in reality will only do 150. So it's still expensive considering the poor range.
The way battery tech is progressing I’d expect that to do over 200mile range on release.
There’s a large number of households now have two cars and this would fill the 2nd car slot perfectly as it would only be used for short commutes and shopping trips with the main family car being used for long hauls.
How often is anyone actually doing more than 200 miles a day? For the odd time you are you should really be taking breaks at least once every three hours and there’s not many places you can drive more than 200 miles in three hours. On long haul motorway trip’s you’ll always be passing Tesla Superchargers and a smaller battery like that will recharge in about 15-20 minutes so you’d have that short a break every three hours.
 
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Apparently there's a few different types of connectors, and need a box of adapters.

At the minute only tesla can super charge on one of their super chargers, but they're starting to trial it for non tesla cars
It’s got nothing to do with the charger connection, Tesla superchargers have the same dc connectors as other rapid chargers.

you have to have a Tesla for the charge to activate though.

Tesla charging network is amazing, it’s a shame about the rest of the public charging network especially locally to me which is shit.
 
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The way battery tech is progressing I’d expect that to do over 200mile range on release.
There’s a large number of households now have two cars and this would fill the 2nd car slot perfectly as it would only be used for short commutes and shopping trips with the main family car being used for long hauls.
How often is anyone actually doing more than 200 miles a day? For the odd time you are you should really be taking breaks at least once every three hours and there’s not many places you can drive more than 200 miles in three hours.

Equally with increasing WFH reduces the need for the 2nd car. And 2nd cars tend to be a cheap 2nd runaround

It's all very saying you should be taking a break (normally we'd have a 15 min bog stop every 1.5 - 2 hours anyway) but Currently there's hardly any chargers free at service stations so it's handy to get a long range from a home charge.

I mentioned this before, but wetherby services out of 700 car parking spaces, they have a grand total of 3 chargers (and don't tell me to take a detour to aldi either)

I don't think I've even seen a charger in a hotel car park which is even more crackers.
It’s got nothing to do with the charger connection, Tesla superchargers have the same dc connectors as other rapid chargers.

you have to have a Tesla for the charge to activate though.

Tesla charging network is amazing, it’s a shame about the rest of the public charging network especially locally to me which is shit.

I never said it was, but you have previously told me you need adapters for different chargers.

Looking on the tesla supercharger map, it appears there's only 1 station in the NE.
 
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