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Looking at the prices, maybe not me! My car is a "middle of the range" Mercedes 2.1 litre 140HP diesel estate car from 2006. It goes like on the day I got it, and it's the best car I ever owned. BUT - even with it's high efficiency low emissions tech with catalytic converter, it's still an ageing diesel, a definite no-no here in UK.
I have experienced a fully loaded Tesla model S in "ludicrous mode" from standstill to 60mph in about 3.5 seconds, taking on the Basingstoke Ring Road while driver did not have his hands on the steering wheel. The same car navigated itself to a charging station while playing 70's and 80's rock ballads from Spotify, and booked a dinner table at a pub just by speaking at it!
For the money, ($=outrageous), the owner never has to pay for a charge again. For the money, I would have expected a more supercar finish inside. The Jaguar I-Pace and F-Pace seem better. Then there is the whole host of 2019 me-toos, all thumping the green tub. Unless somebody knows for sure that his cramped, tiny wheels, garish coloured ugly little campaign for a greener life used electricity that was guaranteed to came from a windmill, I a going to count it as a fossil-burning phony!
Here in UK, in the future, there will not be any new petrol cars made after 2040, and the move is to bring the date forward.
Its the price, the prices! However much one would like to tap into the AI driver-assisted Jaguar, Mercedes, Tesla, BMW, A-List life, I can't see it as something I would ever have the means to join in and get used to.
I have experienced a fully loaded Tesla model S in "ludicrous mode" from standstill to 60mph in about 3.5 seconds, taking on the Basingstoke Ring Road while driver did not have his hands on the steering wheel. The same car navigated itself to a charging station while playing 70's and 80's rock ballads from Spotify, and booked a dinner table at a pub just by speaking at it!
For the money, ($=outrageous), the owner never has to pay for a charge again. For the money, I would have expected a more supercar finish inside. The Jaguar I-Pace and F-Pace seem better. Then there is the whole host of 2019 me-toos, all thumping the green tub. Unless somebody knows for sure that his cramped, tiny wheels, garish coloured ugly little campaign for a greener life used electricity that was guaranteed to came from a windmill, I a going to count it as a fossil-burning phony!
Here in UK, in the future, there will not be any new petrol cars made after 2040, and the move is to bring the date forward.
Its the price, the prices! However much one would like to tap into the AI driver-assisted Jaguar, Mercedes, Tesla, BMW, A-List life, I can't see it as something I would ever have the means to join in and get used to.
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