Still want an EV? (NO POLITICS)

[M5Rick]

All I saw over here was older chaps driving them then I haven't seen them anymore, the leases ran out and a lot of them have just disappeared or are on dealer forecourts.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by KRS_SN

The taxpayer is directly paying the 9k into the manufacturers coffers?

The greens have been thrown out of Brighton
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/233598...eting-drivers/

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

A point of interest is that the i8 has been discontinued by BMW. A 3 cylinder turbo with electric motor, so a part EV that never really caught on, the main bugbear being the crippling depreciation from new.
Here's the gen on it.

2 people are required to open the hood...

[KRS_SN]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

The greens have been thrown out of Brighton
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/233598...eting-drivers/

Fabulous..my day is made

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

2 people are required to open the hood...

Not

[M5Rick]

Another Tes EV shocker, new battery needed after just 48 hours after purchase, so car is a write off.

Ratarossa is not impressed.

[fcman]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Another Tes EV shocker, new battery needed after just 48 hours after purchase, so car is a write off.

Ratarossa is not impressed.

The car has 252k miles, pretty good tbh. Sounds like he got exactly what someone should expect when you buy “the cheapest X in the country” and it has over 200k miles.

One man’s trash is another man’s trash.

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by fcman

The car has 252k miles, pretty good tbh. Sounds like he got exactly what someone should expect when you buy “the cheapest X in the country” and it has over 200k miles.

Pains me greatly to agree with you. Some how this looks like reality TV to me. This guy knew this was a issue when he bought the Tesla. Considering there is the promise of a future video, I'd say he had a plan from the beginning.

[Car-Addicted]

I will point out that $21,700.00 buys a hell of a engine rebuild on a ICE car.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

Pains me greatly to agree with you. Some how this looks like reality TV to me. This guy knew this was a issue when he bought the Tesla. Considering there is the promise of a future video, I'd say he had a plan from the beginning.

I think that's just a default to his mistake of getting one of those, secondhand main EV batteries don't come refurbished.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

I will point out that $21,700.00 buys a hell of a engine rebuild on a ICE car.

About £7k would do it over here for a dead M V8, I pointed a guy already on here to an engine rebuild factor but think he got cold feet.

[Tejas1836]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

A point of interest is that the i8 has been discontinued by BMW. A 3 cylinder turbo with electric motor, so a part EV that never really caught on, the main bugbear being the crippling depreciation from new.
Here's the gen on it.

Probably worth millions in 5 years

[Tejas1836]

LOL- Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free
https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-...tures-for-free

[KRS_SN]

This is a must watch. Disrupting the disruptor

[capese21]

The Tesla price is probably for a brand new battery pack. The existing one could be reconditioned for far less.
It is likely that just one or two cells (out of around 7000) has gone bad which would disable the complete module.
Its a easy enough repair for a specialist. I suspect this is the reason the car was purchased so a YT video can be made documenting the repair.

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by Tejas1836

LOL- Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free

Who didn't see that coming.

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by KRS_SN

This is a must watch. Disrupting the disruptor

Climate Change Obsession Is a Real Mental Disorder WSJ
If heat waves were as deadly as the press proclaims, Homo sapiens couldn’t have survived thousands of years without air conditioning. Yet here we are. Humans have shown remarkable resilience and adaptation—at least until modern times, when half of society lost its cool over climate change.
A study in 2021 of 16- to 25-year-olds in 10 countries including the U.S. reported that 59% were very or extremely worried about climate change, and 84% were at least moderately worried. Forty-five percent claimed they were so worried that they struggled to function on a daily basis, the definition of an anxiety disorder.

Climate hypochondriacs deserve to be treated with compassion, much like anyone who suffers from mental illness. They shouldn’t, however, expect everyone else to enable their neuroses.

We older folks grew up during the cold war with duck and cover drills survived that but today's snow flakes with social media are doomed to be Greta Thunberg wannabe's.

[gblansten]

Just stop oil: caring about the environment lol.

[KRS_SN]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

Climate Change Obsession Is a Real Mental Disorder WSJ
If heat waves were as deadly as the press proclaims, Homo sapiens couldn’t have survived thousands of years without air conditioning. Yet here we are. Humans have shown remarkable resilience and adaptation—at least until modern times, when half of society lost its cool over climate change.
A study in 2021 of 16- to 25-year-olds in 10 countries including the U.S. reported that 59% were very or extremely worried about climate change, and 84% were at least moderately worried. Forty-five percent claimed they were so worried that they struggled to function on a daily basis, the definition of an anxiety disorder.

Climate hypochondriacs deserve to be treated with compassion, much like anyone who suffers from mental illness. They shouldn’t, however, expect everyone else to enable their neuroses.

We older folks grew up during the cold war with duck and cover drills survived that but today's snow flakes with social media are doomed to be Greta Thunberg wannabe's.

These guys who block British roads probably won't be treated so kindly if they tried it elsewhere.

[Murf the Surf]

Originally Posted by KRS_SN

These guys who block British roads probably won't be treated so kindly if they tried it elsewhere.

I'm looking forward to the video of some ass kicking being handed out. I can see a YouTube channel deviated to it.

[KRS_SN]

Originally Posted by Murf the Surf

I'm looking forward to the video of some ass kicking being handed out. I can see a YouTube channel deviated to it.

Normally don't condone violence..but...

[Car-Addicted]

Nothing like a good soaking down in pepper spray to make someone change their attitude.