Cheap Tesla. Worth a punt?

[otherclive]

If a relative of mine arrived in a Tesla they would have to park in the layby down the road and walk the 50 yards to the house🫣

His final choice came down to Tesla Model Y or Polestar, the Tesla was chosen because it had much more space for rear passengers, substantially more luggage volume with the seats up or down, his previous Tesla experience was good, quick delivery, and finally price difference. Both are made in China. So why not take advantage of someone when their business is down especially when it was self initiated. 🤣

As for parking on the drive it goes well with our neighbours son’s identical model, albeit different colour. They look like two Typhoons ready for QRA.

 

[Johnb]

Ahh the old spoons, the establishment that doesn't employ chefs, just MO,s. Microwave operators.

I'm sure you're right.
But.........
My reason has nothing to do with the food sold.

 

[Tobes]

Today’s DT has a full page spread. Here’s a summary. Look pretty good value overall.
Would you be tempted? Shame it’s not a proper hatchback.

And yes – it has its original battery. An independent test revealed it still had a 90 per cent state of health after four years.

The stats​

• Tested: 2021 Tesla Model 3 AWD Long Range
• List price when new: £49,990
• Price as tested: £12,500
• Official range when new: 382 miles (WLTP)
• Test range (best/worst): 230-290 miles (winter to summer)
• Average test efficiency: 3.6m/kWh

My neighbour has just acquired one. 2020, much lower mileage (40k), higher price (16k). They got a battery health check, but I can t remember the exact outcome, but it was on the 90s%. It's not my taste, but it's a lot of car for that money. Will do over 250 miles on a charge. Far more capable than a shop run around, but if that't what you are buying for, you probably can't go far wrong. As a run around, you could charge it with a 3 pin plug (granny lead) and add about 40 to 50 miles a night for about 88p. If you decide you are going to use it for longer journeys, more regularly, you can add a full charger later.
Elon stance is a political decision, not a used car decision or financial decision, so I will ignore here. Yes, it's on the higher mileage side, but I seriously doubt much would be wrong with it.

 

[Beachball]

My neighbour has just acquired one. 2020, much lower mileage (40k), higher price (16k). They got a battery health check, but I can t remember the exact outcome, but it was on the 90s%. It's not my taste, but it's a lot of car for that money. Will do over 250 miles on a charge. Far more capable than a shop run around, but if that't what you are buying for, you probably can't go far wrong. As a run around, you could charge it with a 3 pin plug (granny lead) and add about 40 to 50 miles a night for about 88p. If you decide you are going to use it for longer journeys, more regularly, you can add a full charger later.
Elon stance is a political decision, not a used car decision or financial decision, so I will ignore here. Yes, it's on the higher mileage side, but I seriously doubt much would be wrong with it.

Sounds like its a great buy, and hope he very happy with his purchase

 

[Tobes]

7 kWh, so at 100% conversion efficiency suggests a useful 25 mile/hour peak charging .
Therefore in our case an over night charge would mean it covers 95% of any use we have.
Seven kWh with the other domestic loads looks like what is doable on a normal single phase house supply, is that about the limit?
Or are these things smart enough anyway to shed its load if the home requirements require it?

House fuses tend to come in 3 sizes that I know of 60A (tends to be older, sometimes looped supply), 100A, and I am now hearing 80A for some new builds.
Ours is 100A. Thats 22 to 23kW power depending on voltage. We can run 2 x 7.2kW car chargers, 2 x 2.5kW house battery chargers, 3kW immersion heater, dishwasher (2.2kW), and a 2.2kW granny lead. The 2nd car charger will monitor current and shed load to ensure we don't tip over the 100A main house fuse limit. It's very rare that we actually need to run all of that at once. Indeed - we set the immersion and dishwasher so they don't come on at the same time. Last big peak was 21.8kW about a week ago, and lasted about 10 mins dropping back to 12kW for the night.

 

[GUMPY]

In the days of storage radiators I managed to take out the main fuse. I had a couple of fused spurs from the Economy 7 CU to save adding extra timers, that ran the dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer, immersion heater.
One night the whole lot was running at once along with all the radiators. Woke up cold the next morning.