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There aren’t any Tesla Taxis on the streets of London….

No Tesla meets the criteria to be a Taxi in London.

If you have dreams of becoming a London cabi, you need one of these which are unironically Chinese:

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... tesla can be just dumping models3's in the UK fleet mkt explaining their leadership, to fight against the likes of BYD (the scale of that tesla longbridge warehouse in that video.!)

versus V, where model3 & BYD don't get a look in , with no rules of origin credit, afaik.
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J1nxy said:
Or the quality of future output from Gemini? You imagine the output if it used jpaul posts as training material?? You think AI hallucinates now...we see your hallucinations and raise you jpaul posts :D
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"Hey AI, can you give me a basic spec comparison between these two cars"

Analysing the task....
Checking specifications....
Considering random alternatives....
Adding criteria you don't care about....
Procrastinating....
Considering 4G connection....
Looking into Wi-Fi options....
Random musings about charging....
Comparing the weight to a 1998 BMW 320i....
Looking at estate options....
Comparing global trade constraints....
Going off on a tangent....

I suggest you wait for the 2032 release of a car that doesn't exist yet. Come back in 5 years time and I will suggest another car that doesn't exist.
 
You forgot "referring to a French magazine from 1993 which was only sold for three months and in one village just outside Narbonne"
 
Octopus have just become the new British Gas now. Trying to explain to the agent that my meter readings are not working is just exhausting. They asked me to email photos and over a week and no response so I called back and they have no record of requesting this or why I even called. Think I’m just about done with them now and will switch.

All I hear on the Radio is how wonderful they are and which No1 rated blah blah. They are great until you have an issue then just useless.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
Trying to explain to the agent that my meter readings are not working is just exhausting. They asked me to email photos and over a week and no response so I called back and they have no record of requesting this or why I even called. Think I’m just about done with them now and will switch.
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TBF I've found emailing octopus lousy and slow, but this can be said for any random company.
Much easier to get stuff sorted over the phone.
 
tamzzy said:
TBF I've found emailing octopus lousy and slow, but this can be said for any random company.
Much easier to get stuff sorted over the phone.
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They do answer fairly quick but have called them numerous times about this issue it’s been going on for over 3 months still nowhere near to any kind of fix.
 
When we moved in to our place a few years ago we were constantly getting letters from Octopus for the previous occupier. They obviously didn't settle their bill and just bailed, and Octopus just kept sending letters. I contacted them three times, on all three occasions they told me it's sorted and we wouldn't get the letters anymore, but they kept coming. We then handed them over to our lettings agent and asked them to deal with it and they actually managed it somehow.

Like the above, their ads banging on about how good their customer service is definitely isn't representative of my experience with them. Then again those ads have been on the radio for yonks so they might be very old and out of date and Octopus are just milking it.


I do remember their first radio ads, one of their customers was so clearly hammered when talking to the customer service people, slurring his words, could barely get a sentence out. They've since stopped using that recording :D
 
When we bought our house we ended up keeping our temporary chain break rental for a month while we decorated. All was perfect with the old supplier (Eon), as soon as we moved over our Octopus account the new property had 2 electricity and 2 gas meters under the account. It took 3 weeks of back and forth. Finally got the "it's ok, we've sorted it" message. Checked my account and one gas meter (great) still two electricity meters (FFS).

I don't have the will to go through the process again so I left it. Short spell in between with Uber cheap Tomato energy and they were able to get it right. Back to Octopus and back to two meters. Fly by night Tomato were also able to show energy usage in the (third party) app within half an hour, something Octopus with their obsessive per minute optimization can't seem to do.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
Octopus have just become the new British Gas now. Trying to explain to the agent that my meter readings are not working is just exhausting. They asked me to email photos and over a week and no response so I called back and they have no record of requesting this or why I even called. Think I’m just about done with them now and will switch.

All I hear on the Radio is how wonderful they are and which No1 rated blah blah. They are great until you have an issue then just useless.
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EDF are no better, on more than one occasion when making payments to them through my bank they were adamant they'd never received them, took months to sort it out despite showing them the payment had been made the same way I'd been making payments for years.
Why I dumped them and went to Octopus.
 
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