Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) Are EV`s THE future...?

The day I picked up my then new Tesla, I asked when I would need to return it to them for service, they said if you bring it in for it`s first MOT we will have a look at it then...I have updated it`s software perhaps five or six times in the last year or so, as and when requested via Tesla messaging, and initiated the updates from my phone using my home internet service providers connection.... So far, so good.

Hi Richard

50,000 trouble free miles so far. Probably the easiest car I've owned in that it's always fully fuelled every morning, it is as quick as a supercar (despite being a four door 'family' car) and, of course, ridiculously cheap to run - costing about £6 to fill up. It's already paid for itself as a swap for my Range Rover - saving around £7k a year on fuel and servicing - along with a tax benefit. The last set of tyres lasted 35,000 miles and the brake pads should last the lifetime of the car as they are rarely used.

There are, of course, the hilarious and misinformed detractors who have never owned one but have to comment - brake dust, tarmac shredding, tyre dust, fireballs, batteries dying etc. So that's an amusing side to owning one.

If you're driving under 300 miles a day, not wanting to feel like you're driving in the Mille Miglia when you visit Sainsbury's and can charge at home, an EV would be hard to ignore if you're buying a new car.

Still enjoying the Morgan too.

Ah. I trashed our first set of front tyres in just over 12k miles. Maybe I should lay off the Sport mode.

We have just replaced our daily driver, with a petrol manual gearbox Kia Xceed our third Kia not the most exciting drive but if it's anything like the last two it will be trouble free motoring and still worth something when we come to move it on, a EV would have probably worked for us was it not for my wife who insisted on a manual gearbox. We did try a couple and I must say the acceleration is addictive but that's about it.
We buy our cars old school, with the huge depreciation that an EV carries even with the low fuel cost if charging at home the sums did not work for me and the concern about who will buy a six year old EV? What happens when they are out of warranty and they do need fixing, the garage down the road can't fix them.
An EV future? Not in my life time, the government will do what they always do with the incentive to buy them, then rack up the cost, road tax next year and pay per mile not so far away, they always want the tax revenue..
I believe the first EV was way back in 1835 and then something better came along Petrol.

That'll be me.

Fight you for it, get your walking stick.

Supermarket trolley wheels on the front?
Hmmmmm

Don't think they would touch the ground

Autotrader has created a vid inspecting a 430k mile Tesla taxi to judge it`s battery condition and much else..

Doesn't surprise me. The software and battery management are superior. Had a Tesla Model S for 5 years! The only thing is that the quality of the car and the service is disappointing. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the 5 years of Tesla ownership!