Collecting My Tesla design 3 Today – A Petrol Head’s journey to the electric Side
At 3:30am on 1st April 2016 I was sat up in bed, refreshing a stubbornly unresponsive web page. five thousand miles west, it was early evening in California as well as still the last day of March.
Tesla had opened reservations for their new design 3 before the introduce event had kicked off. even though no details, or even a photograph of the new cars and truck had been released, I was bashing away at my keyboard trying to put down a £1,000 deposit to reserve a location in the queue for one.
Rewind to The Noughties
To comprehend what brought me to this point we requirement to rewind a bit.
I had always treated EVs with a big serving of scepticism, I even keep in mind having a chuckle to myself when the Nissan leaf was launched. who would ever drive such a thing. as well as anyway, surely they just moved emissions from the tailpipe to the power stations.
As a verified petrol head I had filled the very first decade of the new millennium with a couple of Japanese rally replicas as well as one of BMW’s M cars. All excellent fun, entertaining driving with incredibly charismatic interior combustion engines.
By 2009 younger exuberance had provided method to a browse for comfort as well as household practicality as well as I spent the next five years in a German SUV. towards the end of my time with the X5, my like for new innovation had piqued my rate of interest in the BMW i3 as well as so 2013 was the year I took my very first test drive in a full battery EV.
While I was still extremely much in the sceptic phase it was definitely an eye opener, particularly in the performance department. Looking back, whether I understood it consciously or not, this was the point that I stopped sniggering at EVs as well as realised they were the future.
1st Teslas I saw in the flesh (NYC, April 2015)
By 2014 the X5 had been replaced with one more big SUV, however after around a year of ownership I was feeling progressively uneasy about the environmental effect of driving such a monster oil burner.
By 2015 whatever I was reading was directed towards an dissatisfied ending for diesels too. It was remove that even if a specific carbon tax wasn’t going to be introduced in the UK anytime soon, the economics were going to be agonizing in the future.
There was (and still is) so much FUD surrounding EVs as well as renewable energy as well as I wished to get the truth. I can heartily suggest this book (plus this more recent one on air quality) if you want to checked out some facts yourself.
Ingen vei tilbake
So this brings us to early 2016, back where we came in, putting that design 3 reservation.
While 2013 had been the year that the seed had been planted, 2016 was the year that my cognitive dissonance had well as well as truly worked itself with to a resolution as well as I began to act on my intuition.
April was the month I had put down my money on the design 3 as well as I was craving a long time (my very first time) in a Tesla. So I booked a location for the next test drive day in Belfast that July.
Even though I understood it was going to be years before I got my Tesla all I might believe of was getting the modifications underway as well as in the autumn of that year I pulled the trigger on a 4kWp solar array at the Automated Home.
Just a few weeks later I offered the variety Rover, still getting a decent cost for it (before the diesel hit the fan) as I altered to a somewhat different vehicle. I leased a 24 kWh Nissan Leaf, taking a PCP offer over three years, my finest assumption at exactly how long I’d have to wait on my design 3 to show up in the UK.
When the leaf arrived, I believe most of my good friends believed I’d lost the plot. however it was an incredibly low-cost as well as practical method to try out an EV.
I understood that if I might get by with a very first generation EV with a genuine world variety of 85 miles then anything in the future would be easy. people commonly deride the leaf for its weird looks (myself included), however I believe history will judge it as an important break-through cars and truck that assisted introduce EVs to numerous countless drivers.
I started www.NIEVO.org in late 2016 with a great good friend as well as in the spring of 2017 we both got an invite to spend a day driving Teslas, to celebrate the opening of the new Dublin Store. This [turned out to be] an legendary day of hooning about in a P100D Ludicrous design X as well as a 90D design S. Unsurprisingly this did bit to quell the Tesla lust.
By January 2018 it was remove that diesel sales were in huge difficulty having dropped by almost a fifth. On the last day of February of 2018 Tesla introduced the $35,000 version of the design 3, just a month timid of the 3 year anniversary of the cars and trucks announcement.
On the Tesla website the shipment quote for UK orders stayed stubbornly as ‘Early 2019’ even though Musk had stated thHos RHD ville produksjonen være midten av ’19.
Bevegelse
Men så begynte ting plutselig å bevege seg på slutten av våren i år. Bestillinger gikk online i Storbritannia 1. mai 2019 rundt 07:00 samt innen 07:25 bestillingen min var i.
Jeg hadde fakturanummer 117 av rundt 4500 bestillinger i løpet av de første 30 dagene, så vel som konfiguratoren foreslo juni som forsendelsesdatoen som [viste seg å være] riktig, bare
Storbritannias bookingholdere har hatt en av de lengste ventetiden på Design 3 -tallet. Likevel har forsinkelsen i høyre biler, selv om de er smertefull, også vært gunstig. Tesla har stryket ut de fleste av utviklingen av høykvalitetsproblemer i disse bilene og lastebilene i tillegg til å gi dem forskjellige seter samt suspensjon.
I tillegg har det vært en rekke nye funksjoner, så vel som forbedringer med overføring av luftprogramvare -applikasjonsoppdateringer inkludert Sentry Mode, Dog Mode, mye bedre bremseytelse samt til og med en strømøkning.
Et redusert funksjonssett med autopilot har nå endt opp med å være vanlig også, mens de mer avanserte funksjonene er overført til full selvkjøring (FSD) -pakken.
Ny bestilling
Så da, det som opprinnelig begynte som avslappet distain for EV-er, etablert til nysgjerrighet, samt til slutt forandret seg til litt av en besettelse.
Jeg har aldri virkelig nevnt å ha en bestilling i alle disse årene, og ikke ønsker å telle kyllingene mine eller Jinx drømmen. Imidlertid har jeg i dag etter 3 år, 2 måneder, så vel som 28 dager med ventetid, dukket opp på Edinburgh Service Center for sist samlet Tesla Design 3 Common Variety Plus.
Mens jeg har vært en BEV-sjåfør på heltid siden 2016, er Design 3 heller et annet kjøretøy enn bladet mitt, så vel som jeg skal gjennomgå bilene og lastebilen i løpet av de kommende månedene.
Turen min fra Belfast til Edinburgh i dag markerer gjennomføringen av reisen min fra bensinhode til full EV Evangelist.
Det ser ut til at en så synd å gå direkte hus når du sitter i det nye elektriske våpenet ditt med noen av Storbritannias mest berømte asfalt bare noen få timer mot nord. Så når vi forlater Tesla Service Center, leder vi den lange metoden til fergen, på en 5 -dagers biltur via noen av Skottlands mest legendariske veier.
Miljøet er elektrisk.
Bruk henvisningskoden til å kjøpe en Tesla, så vel som vi begge får 1000 gratis supercharger miles.
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