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Nice video. I want one. Have to say, I'm not sure where you are parking in central London for a pound or two. Lucky to do that for a tenner.

Awesome new here! glad to join your channel and support friend hope your having a fantastic day! Great camera quality as well cheers bud

Tesla makes their battery packs in Nevada, and assemble the cars in California. As well, they DON'T make money on them, since their income statement doesn't include cost of support parts and service, which is sizable. Everyone is losing money on EVs, because the public is unwilling to pay what these things ACTUALLY cost to make. For that kind of money, you can get a higher spec brand new ICEV with better quality and reliability and service support.

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Shell EV chargers 25p per kwh up till June 2018 then 45p per kwh thereafter?.I know where I won't be stopping!

What about the 2018 Soul Ev with 30kw battery. Drivers are getting 110 winter range in them atm

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Don’t think it was quite fully charged ?

What about heaters when in winter. Regular vehicles use hot water and coolant to heat air for the cabin? How do ev's work?

You're right to be concerned, James. After all, you are making money from producing and showing videos about EV's. OTOH, most of your Supercharging is incidental to your personal needs, and is not done for commercial purposes. Thanks. All the best for 2018 and beyond.

Of course electricity shall be sold by the kWh anything else is so unpredictable for the consumer. If all chargers was designed with several outlets to the same charger as Tesla Supercharger the blocking of charger would not be a problem. If a slow charging car is connected on one outlet the other outlet is available for a fast charging car.

I would have preferred if Tesla maintained a commercial-use rate tier for the Supercharger vs. essentially banning them from it. Make it no free charging and 2x non-commercial cost, and they would have a big deterrent from commercial use. On a different note, I personally felt a bit sad when you said in your VLOG video that this discussion was over here. I loved having this content interspersed in your VLOGs as it kept things more interesting imo. I’m not everyone though and you should do what you like, but even though I’m a big Tesla fan, owner, and even president of our local club, your VLOG is the ONLY one I’m subscribed to (though I have occasionally watched others). Much of that is because we get so much more of you that way. Now I’m going through Jasper withdrawals since he wasn’t on the VLOG video either :( lol

Of course it's going to be a problem. Seeing as the EV's owners entire life revolves around re charging..

what about buying a Tesla as a company car. It would be registered through the company for tax reasons and would be used for company and personal mileage. the car would be seen as being commercial use. not good for all those Reps driving up and down the country with the choice of a diesel or a Tesla they CANNOT super charge I know which they will Now be FORCED to purchase :-(

Its encouraging to see that businesses are trying to embrace the electric future. Here in Newcastle we have a cab which is a Model S and I've always wondered how he charges while working. I'm sure that as people (businesses) adopt EVs the business charging infrastructure will expand with them.

Wouldn't all of the leased Tesla's out there be affected by the new policy? After all, those are leased vehicles, technically, they are commercial rentals.

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James should you be worried ? Did you not purchase your Tesla through a company, does this constitute as commercial ownership and use ? Question is what will Tesla specifically constitute as commercial use.

I don't quite understand why Tesla is restricting the usage of the Superchargers to non-commercial use. How are they going to check that anyway? It's much more simple to charge (money) the charge (electricity), as they already started to do so for Model 3. Make it just a little bit more expensive than charging at home and all Tesla users will automatically restrict their usage of the Supercharger network as much as they can, which is the purpose, isn't it? I see the Supercharger network as the Rex of a BMW i3. It's always there if you need it, but you're not supposed to use it :)

There is a parallel between the internet provider and charging network providers in terms of “Net Neutrality”. Personally I’m against Net Neutrality as long as there are anti monopoly provisions that allow competition. If Tesla wants to make a network and give special bias to Tesla owners, especially to model S/X owners, that’s their right. If EVGO wanted to offer GM a package discount so that all Chevy Volts and Bolts can charge at a discount, that’s their right. If people don’t like it they can either buy a Bolt or choose another charger brand. But what Tesla is doing now with their superchargers is the same as what caused the Net Neutrality issue with internet providers, which is selling you unlimited and then setting conditions on how you can use that. But we don’t need the government to tell them they can’t do it, we can tell them by the way we spend out cash, and they will conform. Patreon learned the hard way recently with their stupid policy change that lasted about a week and cost them a lot of money, and the government didn’t even need to step in.

This is another knee-jerk reaction from Tesla caused by their own lack of foresight. It was never explicitly stated in the beginning that supercharging was only for long distance travel. It was said it is free supercharging, and if you remember, the Tesla cost calculator even factored in the savings from that free electricity. Several companies (such as Tesloop) did the math and formulated a business plan which required the free charging to get the desired ROI. Many private buyers also used the free supercharging as a way to convince themselves or their wife that it was a financially sensible move. Without the free charging, it puts their cost/month over what they planned for. Tesla can change the rules for any car they sell from this point on, but any good lawyer could fight them in court about degrading the lifetime supercharging of any existing Tesla which was purchased with that as a string selling point. Tesla is basically saying that tesloop or anyone wanting to drive for Uber cannot buy a used Tesla and get the unlimited supercharging. Adding a fee for idle charging is also reasonable, even though also questionable for existing owners, because if I bought my car with the understanding that it won’t inconvenience me, and I can stop and eat while my car is supercharging without watching an app and running out to move my car in the middle of my meal. Tesla never mentioned this when they were trying to convert people how convenient their cars are to own. Tesla’s huge mistake was using words like “lifetime, unlimited, forever”. If they just set the policy for each car to expire at a certain date, then they can easily update the policy and eventually all those not covered by the policy will have to agree to the new policy to regain access to the supercharger. If Tesla mist charged a fair rate for supercharging as if Tesla Supercharging was company that must be profitable then it wouldn’t be an issue. You won’t see the Shell station telling a EV taxi to go charge somewhere else.

I quite like this being separate from the main channel there's a 50kw charger at my local council car park and I think it says £2.60 for 30 mins on it dunno what company runs it thou isn't ecotrickery lol

On the website it says only applies for cars from 15th DEC so if you already got one and use it as a taxi should be ok , well that's how I read it . even so if using an EV for commercial use and you had to charge it elsewhere and it cost you would claim it back as anyone would(petrol /diesel) via your tax return surely. Good video

And this post was similarly _'fair enough'_ on all points. Well said. 😀

I thought when you get free supercharging it goes with the owner now. So if you buy another tesla if you had free supercharging, you will have it with your new car.

James, ever thought about whether even you might be affected (if you ever buy a new car - or get a loaner...)? You're doing KZbin commercially, with your Tesla. Anyway, I'm pretty sure this new policy won't live for long.

I'm very disappointed by this new policy. I've rented a Tesla before and I'm doing so again at the end of the month. Are rental cars affected by this ban? I can't imagine that was Tesla's intention, but the policy is very vague and just says "any other commercial activity". I can understand wanting to limit usage by taxis, but this policy is way too broad. If they kill off Tesla rental companies I will be more than a little upset. It's not like any private charging arrangements could possibly cover that kind of use. A charger at a central location is not going to cut it for rentals. And rentals expose a lot of people to Tesla, and allow those who can't afford to buy one, to experience these awesome cars.

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I seem to recall that Tesla will install a Supercharger restricted to 50kwh if a business is willing to pay.

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If I was a fleet buyer of cars it would put me off Tesla. As a P85 private owner I feel that this linked with the obvious reluctance to honour the referral programme will make me look at Jag, BMW etc as my trust in Tesla to stick to its promises is being dented. A sad day.

Tesla App and Navigation already show the status of Superchargers. Maybe it can be used to book Superchargers for a period of time. As long as you arrive within 5 mins of your alloted time, the Supercharger is booked for you. After 5 mins it can be used by others too ?

The Porche Panamera plugin is attractive even with the short range is for cities that will ban fossil engines.

That experience with the Nissan LEAF is precisely what frightens the frijoles out of traditional automobile manufacturers. They already know that the first thing their Customers want from either plug-in hybrids or short range compliance EVs is *_ALWAYS_* the same: *MORE ALL-ELECTRIC RANGE* every time. For executives who are concerned only about the next quarterly report it seems dangerous, risky, and irresponsible to spend the sort of money all at once to make that transition. They are wrong, of course, but even as market share declines they refuse to make the decision. Something they should have done three years ago, and will be too late to respond to when Tesla Model 3 is everywhere in Europe, Asia, and the United States within three years.

Tesla is refitting some Model X vehicles and is going to use them as van for the tesla ranger network.

Spot on, about PHEV's being a stepping stone for people. Porsche have the seeds of the right idea. They'll not be too happy if people persist in mispronouncing their name, though! ;-) I like the format of this channel. Shall pass the word around for you. Thanks James.

Thanks for mentioning potholes and debris. I've often wondered about how AP would cope with those, and the odd stray cat or dog.

Perfect, apart from the lack of wall and roof insulation! That will help the acoustics too. Thanks James.

What you've said about Nissan not being on your radar before the Leaf, same here with my Renault ZOE. Before that I drove Mitsubishis (Colt, Carisma) and then Volvos (S60, V50, V50, S60). Next stop: Tesla Model 3 (hopefully before the end of next year).

Do you think they let you test drive one for a review? Like the 300 mile range EV version they are working on

And to think the old roadster new was 89k for the base model what a bargain I bet they haven't lost hardly anything if u can even find one for sale

Claudia Schiffer husband has one in Suffolk right hand drive

I would love to buy an old roadster my little baby very few right hand drives ones were made I can't remember but around 50 it was 6 years ago lol there's a few in Australia and Japan but most where left hand drive

I agree that, it’s good to see other types of cars, I should point out that for some Porsche performance will matter, ie handling and feel etc, which isn’t Tesla’s strong point, drag races yes, hill climbs/tracks not so much. In fairness Tesla is thinking more about automations cars than race/sports car handling, which frankly is fair enough.

If the new roadster doesn't over heat it's gonna be the most amazing car ever made, the ultimate track weapon

The new roadster and the Porsche look very similar

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I love your second channel and I can't wait until you get your green screen up, so that it'll look as good as everyone else's channel.