Will most people be driving a Tesla in 2022?

SmallTown said:
The heavy metals issue with the battery bugs me. It's why I cringe when people say EVs are environmental when they really aren't. Battery day is September the 22nd so it'll be interesting to see what they announce then.

Fully automated driving is a long way off, but it's a hamstrung by regulation as it is by technology. My car, for example CAN stop at traffic lights and stop signs, it CAN be summoned from across a car park, it CAN use the full turning circle to navigate roads.
I know this, because it does all these things in the US, in this country regulations don't allow it.
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Guess you'll be ragging your Tesla all over with it being just a hire car....
 
Battery technology needs to improve as this is a major cost in most electric vehicles. Magnesium batteries could be the answer cheaper and more powerful than lithium.
But in the medium term we need to get rid of personal vehicles which spend 80- 90% of their time parked somewhere.
My grandaughter is 3 and l doubt she will need to sit a driving test. When most vehicles are autonomous then driverless uber type cars will take all the srtrain. The number of cars on the road will decrease significantly.
 
I'm sure I read Elon Musk was planning a coast to coast 3,000 journey with an improved battery without any re-charging

I might have read this a while ago, so it could of already happened
 
Juninho10 said:
I'm sure I read Elon Musk was planning a coast to coast 3,000 journey with an improved battery without any re-charging

I might have read this a while ago, so it could of already happened
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That definitely hasn't already happened!

Remember Tesla dates are like windows minutes, they always take a lot longer than you think. My car, for example, had a delivery date of "July" when I ordered it. I picked it up this week/.
 
Scrutonsmog said:
So to avoid the rest of us getting bored just answer yes/no. Do you own the car outright? Does it belong to you 100%?
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Not sure how this is relevant to Tesla share prices. As I said to the other guy: You would only need to know this if you wanted to do some weird trolling.

Back to the OP.

It turns out that Tesla customer service isn't the best. It's something, along with build quality, they'll have to get on top of. Once the big guns catch up with their battery tech, I can't say people buying the inferior quality product.
 
Whilst I’d rather have a Taycan, I did really like the old Tesla Roadster (Lotus Elise-a-like) and would have one of them. I see they are planning a new version of said roadster which also looks nice
 
SmallTown said:
Not sure how this is relevant to Tesla share prices. As I said to the other guy: You would only need to know this if you wanted to do some weird trolling.

Back to the OP.

It turns out that Tesla customer service isn't the best. It's something, along with build quality, they'll have to get on top of. Once the big guns catch up with their battery tech, I can't say people buying the inferior quality product.
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It was actually you who immediately went off topic saying that your car got delivered this week. You made no comments about share price.
Anyway, to cut to the chase, I don’t believe you, and nor I suspect do many other people.
 
El Guapo said:
Whilst I’d rather have a Taycan, I did really like the old Tesla Roadster (Lotus Elise-a-like) and would have one of them. I see they are planning a new version of said roadster which also looks nice
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The old roadster was a cool thing. Apparently only 20 were sold in the UK so it may be tricky to get hold of one.

The new roadster looks insane. They are promising a 600 mile range and an option to have a mini spacex rocket booster to give it a 0-60 of 1.6s!!

I imagine it'll have a price to match.
 
Also be interested to see what they do with the Cybertuck. Apparently it'll be too big for European regulations so they'll have to do a scaled down one. To be honest I can't see it happening. North America is THE market for pick ups so they'll throw all their effort into that.
 
SmallTown said:
Depends what you want. I think the Nissan Leaf and the Renault Zoe are the cheapest ones. Again offset any price on the massive savings in running costs.
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What are the running costs - I caught the back end of something on the news this morning and the guy was saying you can even sell your unused battery charge back to the grid. Not sure how that would work.
 
Forget the share price, just answer the question. Is the car yours? Will you own it after all the payments have been made? Are you lying?
 
Norman_Conquest said:
What are the running costs - I caught the back end of something on the news this morning and the guy was saying you can even sell your unused battery charge back to the grid. Not sure how that would work.
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I didn't know about the selling your charge back to the grid. That's an interesting one.

Running costs: Depends entirely how you charge, charging at home, on a night time cheap leccy rate is by far the cheapest way of doing it. Luckily for me I have free charging in my apartment block. However even if I used only superchargers, which are quite expensive, it'll cost me a quarter of the cost in fuel as my last car did. The tip is don't use ionity as they are about 300% more expensive than other charging.
Servicing costs are cheaper as there are fewer moving parts. My car has a 2 year service interval too.

If you get a car under, I think, £40 grand you never pay tax too. Also if you live in London you get cheap off street parking if you need a resident permit and don't have to pay the congestion charge.
 
SmallTown said:
The old roadster was a cool thing. Apparently only 20 were sold in the UK so it may be tricky to get hold of one.

The new roadster looks insane. They are promising a 600 mile range and an option to have a mini spacex rocket booster to give it a 0-60 of 1.6s!!

I imagine it'll have a price to match.
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There’s 3 of the old ‘signature 250’ roadsters for sale recently, priced between £70k and £83k. Not sure of their x/250 numbers as hard to tell on the photos.

I reckon I’d be in complete control of something doing 0-60 in 1.6 secs!! Not! 🤣. I’ll settle for the ‘standard’ version!
 
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