Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Not sure tbh, interested to hear current owner past experiences.

I ordered 30th October, midnight silver RWD and no VIN yet either

yeah, nothing in the source code yet either. Has me skeptical about March 🤔

Hey all

Anyone have a M3 insured with AXA by any chance?

My current EV is insured with them, just called them to make sure they would insure a M3 (potentially collecting on Friday), they have come back and said they no longer insure cars over €50k in value.

Seems odd to me since you can spec any decent car these days well north of €50k

Edit to this:

Just got a phone call back from the rep at axa saying it is actually over €100k they dont insure. Even then they do but with a tracker fitted. Glad they rang back to straighten that one out. Small increase of €80 over the ID4

Sorted in the end thankfully.

Now I just have to decided whether to accept the car in inventory or wait until March for the upgraded 2022 model

Keeping that too but transfering it to my wife's insurance. Going to a 2 EV household

I'm leaning that way I must say.

I emailed them about a week before collection (2 years ago) asking for an update, was I approved etc..... and they replied saying yeah, all good.

So they're not exactly quick and willing to give out info unless A. they have to or B. you ask them...

No.

Almost every point of communication that was required between myself & Tesla was initiated by me, but in fairness they were always straight back to me and I was never bothered by it all, and in fact actually liked it that way. Bear in mind though this was January/February 2020 so they were fairly busy preparing for only the 2nd Model 3 Q delivery phase, so it was probably fairly manic for them at that time.

There's not really a whole lot of communication really needed though in fairness... order car, wait, stuff happens in your account, wait, wait, VIN shows up, delivery date shows up, Tesla look for payment, car registered and reg sent, collect car.

as a side note, I collected my car on March 13th 2020 (Friday 13th), which was the day the schools first closed due to Covid-19.. and that was almost 2 years ago!! Thats Mental. 47,849km later and all it's cost me was 2 rear tyres in that time.. (not including the stuff Tesla changed for free)

^^ I was the exact same.. I ordered the car and then wanted it immediately!! I was initially given a delivery date in April, but then after I ordered I saw my exact spec show up in inventory, so hassled them a bit and got that inventory car matched to my order.

There is an article in electrive about VW sales, and globally they didn't do as great as here. Around 260k units I think. Interesting to see 1% of global sales on our shore. Skoda with 260 out of 44k is at 0.6%, Audi 360 vs 82k at 0.4% and Porche 80 out of 41k at 0.2%. Separately BMW 156 out of 103k sold 0.15%. Tesla has 863 vs 936k globally or 0.09%. We'll need to look at the UK/DE figures for context.

Couldn't find a drill down by brands for the UK market. Just for m3 which got 3.2% of the Tesla global sales. Id3 has 11k units but id4 not even 5k which is the number for the 10th place.

I called on Monday and after that call they sent the SEAI stuff along with my Hire Purchase documentation. She said end of February for delivery!

Bit unfair to penalize larger batteries by charging to only 90%. At the end of the day it was a long drive so you prepare accordingly. That is 8kWh for P or one third of L24.

I'd like to see one video about vampire drain. I left the cars untouched for 14 days over the holidays. Tesla lost about 30% while Kona just 1%.

The LR is awful value here in Ireland since the new battery tech was put in the base model.

unless you somehow need that extra 90km all the time (which also means you’re charging the battery to a less desirable 100% all the time), then it’s just €15k more for the very same car. Nuts.