Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

I often precondition for other chargers also by simply selecting a supercharger thats beyond where Im headed, but on a roughly similar route.

Yes but it stops afterwards not reaching the optimum temperature.(depends how far you drive from the navigation) It is better than nothing but not full scale. I have scan myTesla and I can see the battery temp which has to be around 50 Celsius and if I don't drive to the charger I'm navigating to, the heating stops resuting in lower charging speeds. Now I speak of 170kW instead of 250KW so not that bad :). I once used the supercharger without preconditioning and it started at 80kW and left when it got to 150kW. It will be nice to have a precondition button something like "set finish precond at 08:00". But Tesla knows best :)

Does anyone have experience with HP with Finance Ireland? I applied for it through the Tesla website on Thursday, but haven't heard anything since. I thought they would have contacted me by now to submit some account statements and payslip etc.

I didn't get any confirmation with an application number so I don't even really know what to call them with. How long does it typically take to hear from them?

2nd hand M3 market update-

listings are the same, 65.

cheapest is now €35k, a 192 sr+ with 4 new tyres, 12mo tax and just 41k kms - v tidy looking car, and has dropped its original price.

That’s an €8k adjustment in just 3.5wks (pre Jan 13th cheapest was €42.9k for a high mileage outlier. Then €44k).

the cheapest LR is a v low mileage 201 MIC €46k. €8k less than current list price.

interesting that the cheapest cars are both low mileage and tidy, but not selling, one is a Private ad.

I’m guessing that plenty folks like me are watching to see where things plateau. Still plenty dealer cars heavily under water to get sold first.

That's carzone yes?

DD has been stable enough, little movement overall.

Cheapest sr+ is now 33.5k and cheapest LR is at 39.5k. Both private sales. Both look very clean from the photos.

Or Elon announces another price cut so sell now 😉

Agree, id say possibly the Model Y increasing in price to further separate it from the M3. So many going for the Y over it, so M3 sales will be even lower overall, but hard to say how many MY their making over M3.

Problem with used inventory is that your being forced to pay more for EAP. Not that it will puts folks off as the extra warranty adds to this value too. The prices are still way to high for what stock they have there. Makes some sense waiting until new orders are fulfilled to drop them, but also means there will be tons of more used on the market, further pushing prices down.

I have a sneaky feeling their not dropping the used prices as they may increase the price of the M3/MY again. Would be really messed up if they did that.

They did by something in the region of 1,000-1,500 dollars if I remember correctly. Think the price of the 3 dropped a little at the same time.

Sentry isn’t just the camera’s recording… the car remains ‘awake’ when Sentry mode is on, so every system, sensor & CPU is continuously on just like if you were sitting in the car with it in D but just not driving…

it’s a small price to pay for the peace of mind that your car is being watched…

the new setting of detect threats only is much more power consumption friendly and results in much fewer Sentry events (in fact since the new setting came in I haven’t had a single sentry event record… whereas before I’d have had hundreds…)

2nd Feb: 2,242 EVs on DD and 2,060 EVs on CarZone

10th Feb: 2,366 EVs on DD and 2,188 EVs on CZ

Above is mostly due to the Tesla effect, but also quite a few getting ID.4s and MGs from anecdotal information. The number of Teslas is fairly stable, perhaps slightly decreasing, but perhaps another batch incoming as lots of EV owners who have VINs might be keeping their cars until closer to delivery, even if their selling price will decrease somewhat.

This is probably ultimately good news for EV transition.

Shows that EVs have potential to become more affordable relatively speaking.

My understanding is that Teslas list of non Tesla chargers in the car is dynamic.

They look at usage by Teslas at locations over a period.

And all locations must meet reliability target.

So locations can be added or removed from the list by Tesla...

I understand what they are trying to do but to me it's just Tesla trying to be too clever.

I wish they'd just let you select any charger on your route and pre heat accordingly.

The car systems should be set up to handle a non charge due to charger failure situation.

Or cop on to the fact that your journey (as per sat nav final destination) is more then cars range and thus realise you will need to charge and be ready to deal with your instructions.

Even if what you want isn't quite how the guy in California thinks you should do.

Unfortunately battery pre conditioning is still in relatively early days in terms of getting the implementation perfect.

Definitely need a prompt for pre-heating as an option. Can be added for any destinations within a few KM of a charger and more so for when your battery wouldn't be high enough for return trip. Won't suit every situation but would suit 90 percent of journeys