With EV tyres I was also told that there is also additional reinforcement in the tyre walls due to the weight of the overall car. The compounds are not all necessarily harder wearing as this compromises grip, increasing wheel spin under load and cornering becomes less stable.
EV Owners Thread
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It's a con
As long as the weight category is correct, any old brand is fine.
My experience has been with Nissan and Tesla. We have over 250,000 miles of use. I've found no noticeable accelerated wear from using EVs compared to ICE. In fact I would say, they wear slightly less . I put this down to smooth linear acceleration and deceleration.
A set on of tyres on model 3 last >25k miles
A front pair on the Nissan leaf last again 25k miles or more. The rears last longer being FWD.
Now I have a friend who runs a BMW i4 the high performance model and their tyres last less than 10k miles. It is a known issue. Allegedly down to aggressively set steering geometry to improve handling feel.
For cars that don't have such setups, I'd expect good low tyre wear.
I use Hankook on all our Tesla's and Nissan Leaf
As I understand it there's no need for " special " tyres.
This chap dug into it in depth:
View: https://youtu.be/_253wLiUhdo
This chap dug into it in depth:
View: https://youtu.be/_253wLiUhdo
What's interesting is how much this varies between manufacturers. The tyres on my ID4 lasted about 17,000 miles for the first set.
Now the ID4 is *considerably heavier - 1940kg to 2212kg curb weight for the ID4, 1747 to 1922kg for the 3, so this may well be a factor and presumably it's some of the difference between building an EV to be and EV and converting most of your stuff from your ICE parts.
It maybe the type of roads we drive upon, these mainly are fast NSL. We don't do a lot of actual town/city driving, there is not a lot of acceleration nipping out of junctions .
I've just checked my model S 100D it has 24,689 miles . It's still on the original set of tyres. I only use my car for summer mainly and dry long distance driving, I get free supercharging . Today I used my car to drive 250 mile round trip to drop my lad and girlfriend off at the airport for skiing
I've just checked my model S 100D it has 24,689 miles . It's still on the original set of tyres. I only use my car for summer mainly and dry long distance driving, I get free supercharging . Today I used my car to drive 250 mile round trip to drop my lad and girlfriend off at the airport for skiing
I’ve never done a McDonalds drive through, in fact the last time I ate a McDonald’s must have been over 20 years ago.
It was to prove to my kids I could squeeze it through. It's not a normal, being LHD
& Herr Müskler’s influence continues:
From Politico
A third of Tesla owners surveyed by Dutch outlet EenVandaag said they have either sold their Tesla or are planning to do so in reaction to Musk's remarks. "If I had known how he is now, I would never have taken a Tesla," one of the respondents said.
Many of those still driving Teslas are buying bumper stickers saying: "I bought this before Elon Musk went crazy."
But Tesla's troubles aren't entirely due to Musk becoming the frontman for global right-wing populists. The company has also languished in recent years, stuck with aging models while rivals in China and Europe come up with more attractive cars.
"The much bigger impact on Tesla is the fact that the models are outdated," said Lukasz Pajak, co-founder of German used car platform Cardino. "And then you have the pricing element where new players on the market are much more affordable."
I don’t understand why the Tesla board haven’t taken action. I guess they are paid to not, and are embedded with the new oligarchy trying to forge ahead under the mango Mussolini 🙄
From Politico
A third of Tesla owners surveyed by Dutch outlet EenVandaag said they have either sold their Tesla or are planning to do so in reaction to Musk's remarks. "If I had known how he is now, I would never have taken a Tesla," one of the respondents said.
Many of those still driving Teslas are buying bumper stickers saying: "I bought this before Elon Musk went crazy."
But Tesla's troubles aren't entirely due to Musk becoming the frontman for global right-wing populists. The company has also languished in recent years, stuck with aging models while rivals in China and Europe come up with more attractive cars.
"The much bigger impact on Tesla is the fact that the models are outdated," said Lukasz Pajak, co-founder of German used car platform Cardino. "And then you have the pricing element where new players on the market are much more affordable."
I don’t understand why the Tesla board haven’t taken action. I guess they are paid to not, and are embedded with the new oligarchy trying to forge ahead under the mango Mussolini 🙄
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
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We put down our deposit on a 24-reg Skoda Octavia estate PHEV at the weekend. 1000 miles on the clock. Picking it up from near my parents' house in a fortnight.
I used to dabble in share dealing a few decades ago, no day trading just long term stuff. I had a grip of the fundamentals and the foibles and irrationality of the markets. " Monkey with a Pin " and " A random walk down Wall Street " are a couple of books that I'd recommend to anybody. What astonishes me is the insane P/E ratio of Tesla, it has to revert to mean and a lot of people will get a very rude awakening. Every boom will tell you that " this time it's different " " a new paradigm " etc and come up some semi plausible waffle as to why this is so. Only it never is different and it always comes crashing down.
mustang1
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Hi, I thought you could only renew the road tax a couple of weeks before it's due? Mine is due in June. Do you mean I can go online now (this month of March) and renew it (and make it start from June)?
figbat
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No. You go online and renew it now (for £0) and it means you won’t have to pay for VED until March 2026. Otherwise you’ll be paying £195 in June 2025. You are delaying the need to pay for VED by 9 months.
