Because they know who
HE is?
I was presuming it would be sold through the trade somehow, and provided with a new (or its own original) reg number.
Too many non-EV drivers have a bucket of misconceptions, such as the one in this classic spoof:
That's
hilarious!
I was actually mildly surprised when I realised that a car battery is indeed a pack of cells not unlike rather over-sized AA ones though! When I was at school the physics teacher used to get annoyed with us for calling one of these things a "battery", telling us that one was a cell, and that "battery" was the term for the set of cells that work together in an appliance. It's a battery of cells.
Seeing a demonstration of how an EV battery pack is made up of cells that look quite like the ubiquitous AA made me realise that engineers have been using Mrs Carswell's terminology all along.
Shame on you for not watching it
@siteguru, sloppy work! ?
Essentially:
- Man pays £120,000 for overpriced Porsche EV.
- Man struggles with basic challenges like installing charging apps, planning routes.
- Man decides he doesn't want Porsche EV any more and wants to end his finance agreement early.
- Man discovers car is worth less than the outstanding finance (£44k value vs £64k).
- Man declares car "worthless" and "disposable" and concludes EVs are doomed as "the batteries die".
- Man wants to buy 911 despite the fact that he can't really afford it, bringing into question why he bought a £120k car in the first place.
It is a heartwarming story; to not have idiots like this competing with me when I next purchase an EV.
My recommendation would be for him to donate his body to form part of the aggregate for motorway resurfacing.
Excellent précis.
The part he doesn't tell us of course is that the base price of the Taycan, new, was somewhere around £70,000 to £80,000, but he specced it up to £120,000 by adding every possible extra in the brochure. You don't get the cost of the extras back when you sell the car, though it might make it easier to sell.
Then of course the VAT is a complete write-off. So that's another £15,000 or so he'll never see again. That car was worth about £60,000 the minute he drove it out of the dealer's. That's where he should be basing his depreciation exercise. Doesn't look so bad now, does it?
Then again he explained the issue himself. Porsche have not only brought out a new facelifted Taycan with a longer range, even faster, and with even more amazing gizmos, they're over-stocked with the old model which is proving a bit difficult to sell as the guys who buy these things are really in the market for penis extensions and so want the latest model. It happens. It could happen to any model, including ICE cars.
The twist I'm interested in is that he actually likes the car a lot, has a home charger (and was talking about getting Intelligent Octopus when he moves house, not sure why he doesn't have it already) and I'm virtually certain that all this rubbish about going back to petrol is put on. I think he's either going to keep the Taycan when the lease period ends, or (more probably) change it for the facelifted model. I'll be interested to see how he explains that to his acolytes. I suspect that this charade, if it's more than just another pantomime-staged-for-clicks, is something to do with building a scenario where that happens.
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