Which would negate the biggest personal benefit for going EV?
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Which would negate the biggest personal benefit for going EV?
He's surely saving fuel so maybe half this saving to a car? Sound like no SS or experience of lease, but if you go no deposit that would free up a load of cash if he sells the current car. Dont know, some people need spoon feeding it seems so have to guess how their mind works.
Whats £250 a month mean? he could have 20k deposit or 5k deposit, some arbitrary limit of £250 doesn't really make sense on its own. Does this include maintance, tyres, insurance and tax or just the loan payment? My scheme has 58kwh Born V2 for 320 a month 10k, 3yrs no deposit. No brainer as everything else is covered and if you had a car you suddenly get a chunk of free cash
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Should be easily achievable at that level. Especially if you aren't too picky and happy to take something on a promotional deal. Plus you get to keep the residual in your last car too.
I wouldn't worry too much about chargers, they're getting better all the time and you'll do almost all your charging at home anyway.
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Nah, one of the advantages would be the money saved would go elsewhere, I also likely wouldn't be able to get a wall box straight away, still need to look into those but I could get away with basic charging for a bit plus there is a Tesla charger 5 mins walk from work
Sounds an expensive way to run an EV.
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Yes I need spoon feeding, this is a new idea to me and I've never considered electric before and never considered leasing at all
£250 is just for any loan, doesn't include anything else and wouldn't consider going above that really however £20k in my account earning interest is what, £70ish a month at the moment if the base rate doesn't drop again, I don't know sounds tempting but I don't know enough about it currently
My RAV4 is worth around £20k
Have you considered the socket may be faulty or giving a bad connection.
It’s either usually either the socket or the fuse holder on granny leads. In my time on the Tesla owners groups, I’ve never seen a melted plug/fuse holder, I’ve seen a shed load of melted sockets.
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Second hand older petrol car would be the route to save money.
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Fair enough but no one if getting into a newer car to save money. If it was ICE you would have same 250 thats all i assumed, good you answered it rather than other people on your behalf. Very odd behaviour ICDP. Id be happy to pay a touch more for a car rather than a Tesla, try some out and you may have a different view.
Why do you need to walk to a charger though...
The socket on the car?
My charger is the 7KW Wall connector Gen 3.
Its issue is it says the connection of the tails to the unit itself are "too hot", so throttles.
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Exactly. Telsa Wall charger isnt a granny is it.
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Any money saved is an advantage, I'm more interested in the change for the tech and the performance
Charger near work just in case it needed fast charging, likely not needed just thought it worth mentioning because I said I would likely have to mains charge it for a month or two before a wall box is installed
No, However its still showing an issue. So it's either the direct wiring or the wall charger itself that is faulty.
There are different error messages if the connection to the car itself was "too hot"
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Some of the 'tech' in other cars is far superior - dont rule them out just yet.
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When I say tech I don't mean specific to Tesla I mean things like, warming or cooling the car remotely, no need to wait for an engine to warm up before giving it the beans, typical modern car stuff that my RAV4 arguably should have for the money but doesn't
What is your daily mileage? You can add 60 - 70 miles with a granny charger each night in the 6 hour lower price window that most EV tariffs get.
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That's more than enough for my typical daily use
My bad, I assumed it was a granny.
I’ve never seen anyone report getting that error and I don’t think many wall chargers even have that as a safety feature (hence me assuming it was a granny), they usually just melt if not correctly terminated.
The only thing you can do is check the connections are torqued up correctly. If they are, the unit is probably faulty. That’s the only thing that will cause overheating, assuming the cable is the correct size.
I have seen a couple of Tesla wall connectors fail (melt) where power is passed through to the front of the charger from the wall plate. That may be the issue.