Rather worryingly, a guy over the road had a relative with a Tesla staying
over the Christmas break. Apparently he says the problem his relative has
had thus far is one cell going down needing the whole battery to be replaced
under the warranty. I don't know what technology these batteries use, but
it does beg the question that could they fail and catch fire as laptop
batteries used to? Anyone know?

Obviously it is early days, and the people using these expensive vehicles
now are first adopters and pay dearly for that privilege.
The other issue is what about heating the car in the winter. Its fine if our
live in California, but not here or Scandinavia. this no doubt would push
the mileage down quite a lot.
Brian

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On Friday, 1 April 2016 13:24:04 UTC+1, Tim Watts wrote:
On 01/04/16 12:46, JoeJoe wrote:
Just saw the launch of the new Tesla car, and at a claimed 215m to a
charge, I can see myself perhaps being persuaded to consider the
technology at some stage in the not near or medium future.

I have seen quite a few charging points (or whatever they are called) -
in most large European cities. I assume that the cost of a charge is set
so that it would be marginally lower to run such cars compared to
petrol/diesel cars.

But what would be a rough estimate for the true cost of a charge (i.e.
when done at home)?

Using figures here and assuming you have Economy 7 at around 6p for 7
hours and 12p in the day (remaining hours):

https://driveandream.wordpress.com/2...del-s-at-home/


Do do a full recharge on a 32A single phase circuit (the usual if you
own an electric car and recharge it there - 13A is only really useful if
you are a remote site with no 32A option):

A full recharge is estimated to be about 11 hours at 7.3kW, so 7 at 6p
and 4 at 12p = £6.62

Or in terms of price/mile:

The same webpage suggests a charging rate of:

3.4 miles per kWh

So if using no more that 7 hours charging per night:

1.76p/mile

and if using day rate electricity:

3.53p/mile


For comparison, my diesel Touran at 50mpg costs around 9.6p per mile.


Either way it's a good deal, but does not factor the massive capital
cost of a Tesla!

Any idea what it'll cost for a replacement battery and how long they are
expected to last.