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He literally said NHS Fleet in the post.
Because that is the monthly nett reduction from your wage with nothing up front, if it had anything else then I would have put a figure or 3+23 or 6+35 if it need a deposit or was a lease/pcp. Unfortunately you can’t link to deals on the NHS salary sacrifice scheme as they are done individually.
You can usually get pretty awesome NHS deals during the model/plate switchovers. A couple of years back there was the Tesla Model Y for £280 a month with free supercharging. One of the guys who I know who got one didn't even get a charger installed at home he would just swing by the local Supercharger whenever it ran low haha.
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One EV I don't see talked about much is the Ford Mach-E.
I'm just coming up to the end of a 3 year lease with one and all our family and friends have absolutely loved it and we're almost certainly going to get another. I'm trying to push the wife to go look at other things just to be different, but she loves it. From an ownership experience point of view, I can't fault it. I've been looking at volvo EX60, BMW IX3, and the VAG offerings from Audi Q4 / Q6 VW ID 4/ 5 Skoda Enyaq and Cupra
In 2.5 years of ownership and 15,000 miles I have had absolutely zero issues. The only minor annoyance we had was a bug with wireless apple car play where the data connection would suddenly give out and the navigation apps on the phone would freeze and you'd only realise on long motorway trips when it's been 20 minutes and it still says 15 miles until your next turn off ! was sorted with a firmware update last year though and wasn't an issue if you used the on board nav.
likes: It's comfy, mine has the premium pack with the panoramic roof and the soundbar in the dash. Love the space in the frunk which we use when going on holidays as we have a dog who travels with us so we try to avoid putting too much in the back seat so the extra room in the frunk is a god send. I've test driven alternatives that were quite harsh riding, the mach e is a very nice compliant ride and the ford software is great.
dislikes: none really. The only dislike I have is that the software says you can set charge times in the car's UI. I'd hope this would act as a lock and force it to only charge during those times when I have cheep electricity. But it seems if you plug it in at low charge (anything less than would take it to full charge by the end of your window) it ignores the start time and starts charging then anyway. I have a free EV charger that came with our home and it's not the best - it has an app that says it can do this but I've found it hit and miss. At our old house I fitted my own charger and that worked flawlessly so this is very much me having a poor charger and was hoping the car could compensate for it.
I guess the other con is that they called it a mustang. When it's not a mustang. It's a mach E. But I have the proper mustang covered
I'm just coming up to the end of a 3 year lease with one and all our family and friends have absolutely loved it and we're almost certainly going to get another. I'm trying to push the wife to go look at other things just to be different, but she loves it. From an ownership experience point of view, I can't fault it. I've been looking at volvo EX60, BMW IX3, and the VAG offerings from Audi Q4 / Q6 VW ID 4/ 5 Skoda Enyaq and Cupra
In 2.5 years of ownership and 15,000 miles I have had absolutely zero issues. The only minor annoyance we had was a bug with wireless apple car play where the data connection would suddenly give out and the navigation apps on the phone would freeze and you'd only realise on long motorway trips when it's been 20 minutes and it still says 15 miles until your next turn off ! was sorted with a firmware update last year though and wasn't an issue if you used the on board nav.
likes: It's comfy, mine has the premium pack with the panoramic roof and the soundbar in the dash. Love the space in the frunk which we use when going on holidays as we have a dog who travels with us so we try to avoid putting too much in the back seat so the extra room in the frunk is a god send. I've test driven alternatives that were quite harsh riding, the mach e is a very nice compliant ride and the ford software is great.
dislikes: none really. The only dislike I have is that the software says you can set charge times in the car's UI. I'd hope this would act as a lock and force it to only charge during those times when I have cheep electricity. But it seems if you plug it in at low charge (anything less than would take it to full charge by the end of your window) it ignores the start time and starts charging then anyway. I have a free EV charger that came with our home and it's not the best - it has an app that says it can do this but I've found it hit and miss. At our old house I fitted my own charger and that worked flawlessly so this is very much me having a poor charger and was hoping the car could compensate for it.
I guess the other con is that they called it a mustang. When it's not a mustang. It's a mach E. But I have the proper mustang covered
I think it was partly due to the £40-50k price tag at launch, and most people who are buying a Ford at that price are buying the real Mustang and nothing else. We test drove the silly version and it was OK, but not being fans of CUV/SUV type vehicles the appeal just wasn't there at all - but as far as the car and technology go I guess it was decent, the fact you are happy to get another after 3 year speaks volumes about the car though, I would say given the current choice or vehicles out there now I don't think ti leads in anything however.
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I am still having a nightmare with my OHME Home Pro charger going offline and saying the car isn't plugged in. OHME customer service have been awful and all they say is that they have tweaked the sim (four times now) and to do a power cycle which I then have to wait 48 hours for things to settle down again and see if it has worked which it never does. Plugged the car in yesterday and the charger is offline yet again so they do another "tweak" (if they are doing anything at all) followed by a power cycle. Plugged it in again today and the same thing has happened although sometime in the past six hours the car has charged despite OHME's app saying the car is unplugged and the charger is offline. The car's app says plugged and charged to 100%. As there was no schedule drawn up by the OHME app I presume that's 26kWh at the peak rate. OHME customer services is shut for the four day weekend so I can't contact them. I am sick and fed up with this now and I am going to push for a replacement on Tuesday.
Did you follow this guide, I assume you did?
How to restore firmware on the Ohme Home Pro
Restoring the firmware on the Ohme Home Pro can help resolve a range of issues such as display problems, graphical glitches, connectivity issues, or other unexpected behaviour. You can restore the firmware as long as the charger is powered on and the buttons are responsive. This is often a good...
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colour match it good. .. do they both have magnaride , and with CUV is it evens on the rear cabin space,
what's your experience of m/KWh on longer trips.
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First foray into the EV world. Just placed an order for a new Tesla 3 RWD on a PCH. 24 month term. 1 month down £309 per month with 10k mileage. Wife's car was needing around 2k to fix up and combined with being 11 years old and 100k as well spending around £200 a month of fuel the Tesla seems like a fairly decent deal. Can't say I was a huge fan of the interior layout, it's going to take some getting used to and probably would have preferred an Ionic 6 or EV6 but couldn't get either anywhere near the same price.
I've never done any sort of lease or even PCP / finance on a car and never really considered buying a new car let alone a Tesla but it will hopefully do us well over the next couple of years. Estimated delivery some time this month so hopefully the charger gets installed asap.
Still got my S2000 and MK8 Fiesta ST for fun
I've never done any sort of lease or even PCP / finance on a car and never really considered buying a new car let alone a Tesla but it will hopefully do us well over the next couple of years. Estimated delivery some time this month so hopefully the charger gets installed asap.
Still got my S2000 and MK8 Fiesta ST for fun
I think you'll quickly learn to love it, loads of people bemoan Tesla's but they have matured a lot, drive well, are well built and no-nonsense (ironic really), great charging network with super cheap prices if you do need to public charge, they are efficient, and the technology 'generally' works well. As you said at that price nothing to touch it, how long did you test drive ti for?
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I was definitely sceptical before the test drive, my wife was a flat no until I went through the figures with her. Test drive we probably got about 20 mins each driving, was a lot of stop start traffic and a bit of dual carriageway so got a decent feel for it. I was overall very impressed, it felt pretty car like and normal which I suppose is a compliment. Loads of room inside, comfortable and pretty quick and seemed to handle the road pretty well. The regen took me by suprise initially but after a few minutes it felt pretty intuitive approaching junctions and the like.
Be interesting to see how my thoughts change as time goes on. At the moment I do feel I'd miss the engagement of driving especially in something like the S2000 but as an A to B tool I think it'll be pretty hard to beat.
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Part of the reason EV suits me is because I rarely do very long trips. I live in yorkshire and going on holiday and flying from heathrow is about as far as I get. That's 190 miles one way which it does without breaking a sweat. I can do 300 + miles on a single charge, but full round trip of 380 is too much so we usually get a hotel around heathrow and go give it a fast charge to 80% at the BP on henlys roundabout and that gets us the 190 miles back again without issue.
Mine is just the premium so doesn't have magnaride. You can only get it on the GT which just isn't worth it. The premium AWD is already ludiscrously fast, to the point it's faster in the real world than the 5.0 mustang. I'm sure if I took it runway racing at elvington in york the 5.0 would walk away from it at 100 + but you're just never doing that speed on the road. So the extra power is pointless and the premium with the tech pack has all the toys you need and the ride is nice, soft enough you're not crashing over bumbs but not so soft that you can't accelerate away from the line on roundabounts etc... and have anything to worry about.
I've seen others talk about what problems they have in this thread and thought how lucky I am to have had absolutely zero issues in my almost 3 years with this car. The software, the ownership experience has been amazing. It's been to the garage once for a service which is mostly just a firmware update and checking the tyres. Can't recommend it enough to anybody looking at an EV now.
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Did they get a solution to the Mach-E tyre wear issue?
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They haven't told me to do that but I may as well take matters into my own hands and do it as I will need another big charge on Monday. Many thanks for the link too.Did you follow this guide, I assume you did?
How to restore firmware on the Ohme Home Pro
Restoring the firmware on the Ohme Home Pro can help resolve a range of issues such as display problems, graphical glitches, connectivity issues, or other unexpected behaviour. You can restore the firmware as long as the charger is powered on and the buttons are responsive. This is often a good...
We need a thumbs up emoji instead of the stupid Kylie one.
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Oi, Kylie is amazing lave it alone!
Yes correct, but no details and no link. Thus there was little to go on aside from the monthly amounts.
It would have helped at least..
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That's a very good price; I might have considered grabbing one at that price, albeit the situation with the lack of fixed steering wheel indicator stalk would still drive me mad.First foray into the EV world. Just placed an order for a new Tesla 3 RWD on a PCH. 24 month term. 1 month down £309 per month with 10k mileage. Wife's car was needing around 2k to fix up and combined with being 11 years old and 100k as well spending around £200 a month of fuel the Tesla seems like a fairly decent deal. Can't say I was a huge fan of the interior layout, it's going to take some getting used to and probably would have preferred an Ionic 6 or EV6 but couldn't get either anywhere near the same price.
I've never done any sort of lease or even PCP / finance on a car and never really considered buying a new car let alone a Tesla but it will hopefully do us well over the next couple of years. Estimated delivery some time this month so hopefully the charger gets installed asap.
Still got my S2000 and MK8 Fiesta ST for fun
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