It looks like Milton Keynes to me. 
Are you ready for an electric car?
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I donāt think the charging cables are the cheapest to replace eitherā¦ 
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the cows are just out of shot. 
Itās been a long time coming but I finally have my beauty.
Dealer delivered it on Tuesday - had to keep 2 meters apart, he had gloves on and everything was sanitised but Iām just glad I managed to get it!
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Excellent 
Now sadly you may have to make do by just looking at it and reading the manual.
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Could always offer to do shopping for neighbours that are in isolation 
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Yeah for the time being itās going to be sitting and I think Iāve just about read every page in the manual haha.
Great idea, free shopping deliveries from leafy 
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Probably needs a new threadā¦
Are you ready for a hydrogen car?
Anyway just spotted BMW (and Toyota) working on a hydrogen X5 to debut in 2022. Guessing it might be closer to 2027 when you can order oneā¦
Quite interesting to see the layout, going with dual tanks to take 6kg total and 3-4 minutes refuel.
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By then we might actually have a nice second gen Hyundai Nexo and maybe more than five places to fill upā¦
https://mobile.hyundai.co.uk/new-cars/nexo
By then the investment in EVs by manufacturers, vehicles and batteries. Will have been so great that the cost of an EV, including that by BMW will have been so great that the cost of an EV will surely have become such that any hydrogen car will be seen as a out of reach for many.
Iāve recently been looking to move to electric however like @PapaSmooth mentioned back in October it is the initial cost - mind you have been looking at Teslaās.
My other, small issue is that some of the lower price models like the Leaf are in my opinion ugly, I currently have the Honda Civic 2016 gen which in my view looks great but I donāt want to just buy an electric car for the sake of it. If you then look at going half way (hybrid) most offer a really small range; ones Iāve seen have no more than 50 mile range which doesnāt then help to push and encourage the move to electric. I think most people would be happy to make the switch now on 2 points:
- Better and more competitive prices
- A range of at least 300-350 miles
Luckily, scrolling through Twitter the other day I did see that Tesla have opened up their patent as open source so that others can see how their technology was developed, here is their blog post for those that are interested
https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you?
I hope once the COVID-19 blows over that businesses realise that most office workers can do the same job at home and we end up with far less cars on the road.
That should help the environment and give back many hours that are spent driving to another building to sit on a chair tapping on a keyboard, that you as long as you had the internet you could be the other side of the World and still do it.
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The model S is what I am looking at currently, even the basic and not with the extended range, however am tempted by the full autopilot feature (just like a gadget, donāt know if I would actually use it much).
However, it is the cost, I think like everything you need to:
A) Save damn hard
B) Pay rise, pay rise, pay rise - would make it easier to afford.
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If you work employed worth seeing if your company has a salary sacrifice scheme.
Iāve found out ours doesnāt but is planning to set it up, or was back in Feb before it all kicked off. Iām going to enquire again when things have calmed down.
So leasing a Tesla on gross salary before you have tax and NI taken off saves a huge amount monthly as BIK is now 0% on EVs.
I donāt understand the salary sacrifice and BIK thingyā¦
So if my work does salary sacrifice, according to this calculator I can have a Model 3 for Ā£154 per month? 
That might be so, depends largely on your marginal rate of tax for the most beneficial arrangement.
More important today is job security and the ability to maintain our present standard of living.
I think that in twelve months times many of us will view these schemes in a very different way.
So why arenāt all employers doing this if all they have to do is recalculate your salary and payslips which is probably automated through some software anyway 
I know mine does the cycle to work scheme where they get you a new bike and all the equipment through salary sacrifice. I really need to look into this 
Iāve always wanted a Tesla.
My Renault Zoe arrived last week. Hardly had a chance to drive it, but really loving it so far. Itās nippy and has great handling. So easy to drive.
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Employer commitment?
What happens to the car if you leave your current job, are made redundant, become sick or fired?
This is surely a consideration for the employer, i.e. does it lock you into a āguaranteedā job for 3,4,5 years because of the car? Am I missing something other than the obvious if you part ways; is the car simply taken back from you and you pay no more? In which case, thereās nothing to lose.
Or is the car āownership/lease/PCP/rentalā transferred between employers if you switch employment?
I have also considered presenting the sacrifice scheme to my employer, but need to consider the potentially expensive personal downside(s) first