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Two D-locks left at work, secure bike shed at 2 locations, and third I take it into a locked in a private office (I work across 3 sites in the city). I probably should insure it, list price is £5k.

Frist proper week of commuting done, my god what a machine!! As agile as my sub 8kg Trek Madone, comfier than my hybrid Boardman, and 250 watts of extra power on demand. Honestly it's the most exciting form of transportation I have owned ,:)

@Malc Just to make your start to the year better, I thought I'll let you know I've added to my fleet with another addition. Astounding bit of engineering, and amazing way to enjoy the country roads and still VED free I believe 🙂 Happy 2023!!

7th winter owning an EV as our main family car this year, what issues have you experienced owning an EV in winter?

The 12V in our 2015 car still hasn't been changed since leaving the factory (Dec 2014), and the car is often left for weeks not driven, have never bothered with trickle charging.

Luckily (or unluckily) the service pack came 'free' with the car, in addition to a 20%+ reduction on list price for a custom order car, permier spec with 17inch wheels+advanced safety pack. So the overall the 'deal' was very good. I normally NEVER use main dealers, and this thread is the latest confirmation main dealer are essentially a total waste of time and money. if I did my job by essentially lying all the time, I would be sacked in under a week, yet committing fraud seems to be how main dealers operate day to day.

This thread made me check our IS service history, till 3 years old it was under a main dealer 'service pack'. Never really paid any attention to what was done or not done, just assume Lexus main dealer would follow the official schedule but it appears not based on the official receipt 🙄. Am not really sure why Lexus thinks the differential oil needs replacing so often, even on much higher performance machines I've never seen such demands for differential servicing, but still bizzar a Lexus main dealer don't follow Lexus official schedule. I've moved to doing the oil change every 2 years on the car now anyways, but next year I'll get the local independent garage to replace the differential oil as we have no plans swapping the IS300H for anything else.

Our IS300H is my wifes, but I had a 350Z before and may have ended up pointing the wrong way on a round about when I took a S2000 out for a test drive in the wet in my yonger days :). Unless Lexus have completely reprogrammed the 2021 IS300s TC system, the IS is most car of any kind I've driven. Despite been RWD, I think you will find even on snow/ice you will struggle to get it to donut due to the aggressive TC system. I've driven FWD car that are more unstable mid-corner during than our IS. You will be fine.

Isn't this a bit ridiculous you have to even suggest this on a brand new EV that cost £40k+ to buy. Why would you buy an EV from a manufacture that cannot seem to get the basic of EV power management correct? There are plenty of other EV around. Lexus needs to get their act together on EVs if they want to stay viable as a car manufacture as 2030 isn't that far away!

The echo chamber is working well on this thread I see. Just to bring people back into the real world, our electricity bill last month to cover electricity usage for the entire household + charging the car to do just over 1000 miles was £63.82 including VAT+standing charger. £63.83 in our IS300H is barely 2/3 of a tank these days.

Cannot still be CHAdeMO??!!! More range is great, but you will still have to recharge at some point, CHAdeMO is now like mini discs in a world of MP3 players.

So literally just moving moving from wheels to back or refitting tires front to back (though am not sure why you would the latter). Surely if its just a wheel swap, £5 (or just good will), a tire garage will charge you £10 per wheel for a tire mount which is alot more work than just taking wheels off and putting them on again - 5 minutes job. Alignment £50 max, though I've NEVER had to do any kind of alignment EVER on any car I have owned.

In the last 12 months I've paid £800 for a new PTC heater on our Tesla, had to wait 2 weeks for parts, another £150 for a new door actuator, and currently waiting for a new wiper motor to be fitted for around £570. I still don't/aren't going to buy an extended warranty for the Tesla, because it costs £1500/year for one!! Trust me, there are plenty of cars out there with reliability issues that may just about justify an extended warranty, the IS300H isn't one of them, that is a GOOD thing :). Though we were forced just to keep one car, the IS300H would be sold in a blink of the eye. For me anyways good reliability isn't at the top of the wish list for what I want in a car. To be fair to our Tesla though, the 'alternative' similar cars are things like a RangRover, Q7, Caynne, and if owned any of them an extended warranty seems like a no brainer 🙂 https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/revealed-the-top-10-most-unreliable-used-cars-in-the-uk/270724

.....and this forum is littered with posts about out of warranty failures ;). Our 2015 IS300H is by far the most reliable car we have ever owned, that includes previous Nissan and Hondas. Yes it's down to appetite for risk, but as a former BMW owner, and current Tesla owners, I can assure you there is little 'risk' in owning an out of warranty IS300H.

The same 'worries' about EVs are the same now as they were in 2015. You can live your life forever waiting for the future or just get on with it, and see what happens. We are talking about cars here, not life or death stuff. I once changed 3 cars in 6 months, what is there to loss when it comes to trying EVs now? If you don't like them just get rid, residual values are so high at present you will probably make a profit selling up!!

If you believe that than good for you:). Just some context, the current lithium ion cells became 'mass market' in the late 1990s when Sony introduced them for consumer electronics. It took Tesla and Panasonic 18 months to setup the latest Giga factory to mass produce current cell technology. As far as I'm aware there isn't a single commercial solid sate battery available for purchase, let alone a factory to mass produce them. If Toyota can develop, mature, and bring solid state batteries to mass market EVs within 3 years they deserve all the success.

When do we think these mythical solid state batteries will appear? Meanwhile our EV which is coming up to 6 year soon, with a cumulative 67k miles has depreciated by 23%. The most 'advanced' car made by Tesla currently uses essentially the same battery technology and format as first Model S that rolled off the production in 2012, so 10 years ago. This will be my 7th winter owning an EV, the amount of £££££ I've saved in fuel, servicing, VED costs with EVs compared to my old combustion car is coming up to £40k. Not to forget because I was an early adopter I got additional 'perks' like x3 'free' home chargers installed at 3 different properties, 'free for life' fuel at Tesla Superchargers, and a 'free' home battery installed worth £10k. Overall switching to EVs early has been one of the best financial decisions I've ever made when it comes to cars. Right now our EV essentially costs me 4p/mile including fuel, tires, and yearly MOT, I actually worked out the EV is CHEAPER to run per mile than my eBike!!!

Correct, but the only place that hydrogen exists as a fuel is the sun, and it gives life to everything on this planet. Plants and algea learnt how to capture solar energy billions of years ago. Amazingly we have also managed to do the same with solar PVs. Yet for some reasons people still believe burning dead animals is the way fowards?? It's all pretty irrelevant now anyways as the climate is clearly changing quickly. The best we can hope for is we are all dead before we see our children suffer the consequences, though given the rate of change, wild fires now becoming 'normal' in London I fear none of us can get out of this the easy way.

Am not sure anyone would consider 60mph 'normal' at M way speeds. Add in winter, rain, wind blowing in the wrong direction we (EV owners) all know the truth on range. I've seen close to 1.5 miles per kWh is torrential rain when on the M25. Going around pretending EVs can do 350miles+ on a car with no issues like any combustion car can is not really helpful for anyone.

You wouldn't get 350 miles range in any Tesla without hypermilling. But overall you are right, other EVs offer much better value than the RZ.

Apart from the £120k EQS and the hand built £150k Lucid air no EV can do 350miles+, and in winter 300mile is pushing it even in those cars.

Am sorry, are you seriously saying you can DIY a hydrogen fuel cell engine??!!!???!!! Do you even know the amount of energy needed to split water into hydrogen, capture the hydrogen, compress it and than store it?? Why would you do this when the electricity needed for that process can be used to provide motion in an EV directly??? Am really struggling to understand if you seriously believe in what you are posting.....you cannot be serious can you??

The longer legs were charged enroute when we stopped for a break/lunch - usually after 2-3hrs of driving. The shorter/at the accommodation I could have charged overnight, but I actually used 'needing to go and charge' as a reason to go driving at 5am :). This was the view from a Tesla SC about 10 minutes away from the accommodation. Getting out early meant I literally had these amazing roads 100% empty totally to my self.....Driving heaven, no other words for it.

I has a Jazz loan car for about 6 weeks when my old DC2 Teg needed some warranty work. The The IS300H is a different league to a Jazz. Everytime I try to justify swapping out our soon to be 8 years old IS300H for a new car (EV), the numbers simply don't work. Even at a crazy £16k px value or 48% residual value at 7.5 years old (only ,£400 drop in 12 months), the cost of change to say a Tesla Model 3 is an incredible £32k just to get into the base version. If we want to swap our IS300H for a good Lexus EV, than its close to £50k requied.........Given our IS300H has been 100% reliable, costs £20 in VED, does 45mpg with no worries about turbos/DPF, and I only service it every 2 years now, why on earth would we sell it to than spend £30k+ on a new car?? What's keeping used prices high is partly new car prices. Which isn't all down to inflation, a brand new MG 4 EV can be had for £26k. Tesla wants another £20k for a car with the same battery size, and it shows how much profit all the 'premium' brands are generating at present. Prices will come down at somepoint, but it will only happen when people have job insecurity, debt issues, and cars will be very low down on anyones list versus house/bill payments.

In this day and age, a 'premium' brand like Lexus really should be able to offer a 1st party App that lets you do all that and more directly. I love the reliability of our Lexus, but the we live in an ever more connected and interoperable world. There is no reason why Lexus cannot do better on the data integration/connectivity side.