Electric cars ⁽⁹⁾

One of the many benefits of Tesla vaunted vertical integration is well illustrated by the announcement that off-peak charging will be free at Tesla Superchargers in the California over the Thanksgiving holiday period. Because Tesla owns all its own charging infrastructure it has a comprehensive…

No, I’m not talking about range - the perpetual first question in any discussion with non-ev-drivers. I talking about a survey by the RAC, a motoring organisation in the UK, which found that Tesla drivers drive more miles on average than drivers of any other…

I've taken my Tesla to the Dartford Service Centre today to have my camera "calibrated". This is needed because I had to replace the windscreen before Christmas after a stone cracked the glass (for the second time in as many months!) The windscreen was replaced…

I owned my Mercedes E Class estate for nine years and drove it 116,067 miles. I put 14,822 litres of diesel into the tank over that time at a total cost to me of £20,470 or thereabouts. Much worse than that, though, is that over…

Today's 300 mile journey to Norfolk and back gave me a chance to test the latest over-the-air software update 2019.40.2.1. This one was meant to bring more confident automatic lane changes among a few other things. My experience today was pretty mixed. Navigate on autopilot…