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If anyone still deciding on over moving over to EDF, they are now giving £75 to anyone joining via a referral code from today 21st May until 13th July 2026. I also believe there is another automatic £50 sign up bonus on top which ends 24th May so 3 days left for that.
I would probably be looking to move before the predicted July energy cap rise of 13% hits, the Go Electric 12m fix still available with the 7hrs per night at 6.9p per kWh
Mines is off the west coast of Africa sailing up past Tenerife, it’s due in Southampton at 6am on Sat 9th May. My delivery slot is between 18th-30th May, looking forward to it
Well that was easy. Locked that offer on before it disappears. £197/month. AP £2500 for 24 months. Car due August/Sept. I cant see that offer being up for very long. Max at the Tesla service centre said I could walk away from the deal and refund the £200 deposit. Its a no brainer.
did you use a referral code to get the free 1300 supercharger miles ? Apparently it’s closer to 2000 on model 3 as it’s more efficient than the model S it’s based on
How long are you taking your lease
I just went for 2 years as worked out a good bit cheaper than 3 years
How did you sort out the disabled road tax, I am assuming our little friend Racheal has not added any addition taxes/cost.
Your road tax is already fully included in a personal contract hire/lease.
Didn’t bother trying to find out if there is a possibility of applying disabled road tax and getting discount as would have been hassle and wanted ordered quickly.
I’m awaiting delivery of my 1st EV, was going to join octopus but for customers signing up for a new EV tariff, I believe EDF has the best rates now for a 12month fix. They are 6.99p overnight rate and are giving you 7 hours cheap rate from 23:00-06:00, this compares to 8p overnight and only 6hrs cheap 23:30-05:30 with Octopus. My peak rate is 29.45p with EDF compared to 33.15p with Octopus. If you then add the smart charging bolt on, you’ll get and extra £5 per month discount (£60) off your bill, this then gives you the extra slots during the day 6.99p to charge car and for full house when cheap grid energy available, there also isn’t any indication that they are going limit charging to a 6hr cheap rate maximum like Octupus either. They are also giving an automatic £50 credit for anyone signing up to this Go Electric 12m deal before 24th May, I believe if you use a referral code you get another £50 credit for that too, so a £100 credit is a big difference.
How long are you taking your lease
I just went for 2 years as worked out a good bit cheaper than 3 years
Just for info, anyone still thinking about this Tesla offer, the referral scheme has now doubled from 650 to 1300 free supercharger miles, approx 430kw real supercharging. Looks like any new orders won’t be delivered until Aug/Sept time though.
Its not without its problems though! I booked a test drive for the Model 3, but they screwed up. The “find your car” didnt work and the only car there would not open. Al it done was throw up a phone number to call which is always busy, left a txt and voicemail and Nothing. Whats more i couldnt book another test as their system had shown I already had a test drive. I had to find their customer service order a ringback, and it appears the office had not put the test drive through the system and that is why it failed. They reset the app, but got too much on at the moment to go for another test. This time its going to be a longer drive to a service centre, hopefully its manned. Tesla, the first hurdle is getting a test drive. It should be easy, but irs not.
What a nightmare, my test drive went without a problem, I’ve been telling my mates ordering it was just like ordering a McDonald’s too
Just for info, anyone still thinking about this Tesla offer, the referral scheme has now doubled from 650 to 1300 free supercharger miles, approx 430kw real supercharging. Looks like any new orders won’t be delivered until Aug/Sept time though.
The first thing you need to do is click the globe icon top right where is says “US” and select United Kingdom at bottom of the list under Europe.
You would then select Model 3 and “order now” and it should come up and confirm you will get 650 free supercharger miles.
You next have to change to finance option from “Business: PCP” to “Personal Contract Hire”.
This will default to £249 per month with 12 payments up front and a 36 term with 8,000 mile per year, you should click “Edit Financial Terms & Savings” this will allow you to amend the term to “24 months” as 2 years are showing better terms but that is personal choice, and can amend initial payment to “1 month” if not want larger deposit and adjust mileage to what ever is your preference.
Once you have decided on a term and mileage, you would then select to order, you will at this point be asked for a deposit of £200, this reserves the car in the specification you have selected, please note that Tesla refund this £200 back onto your payment card once finance docs are signed.
Once car ordered, you’ll get email to download Tesla App, once installed you’ll get prompted to complete a finance application by the app, it appears to either give you a link to “Lex Autolease” or “Santander”, randomly picks one and don’t appear to get a choice. You just give your details and submit and they usually give you a decision on whether accepted pretty quickly.
The app then shows the next steps and gives an estimated delivery date.
That’s pretty much the full process but just ask if anything else you’d like to know .
Will depend on your circumstances and where you live, I’ve ordered one and insurance for me is £353 for the year with Aviva which I thought was great
I wasn’t comparing with Motability just on a pound for pound personal contract hire.
But just to advise on your figures the pip payments are 4 weekly and not monthly, you get paid 13 times per year so 1st year is £4160 or £346.67 per month. Also Tesla initial payment is only £295 as they give you the £200 deposit backI would also say that imo the Tesla, even in basic model with 360 cameras and automated cruise etc is on a whole other level to Kia EV3 Air
Also if you use a referral link, (I posted mine above) but loads available online, then you get 650 miles of Tesla supercharging free. If you them recommend anyone to Tesla, then you and them will get another 650 miles free. When using link, you just need to adjust country to UK first as defaults to USA when opened
You can adjust the terms to suits your needs, just select personal contract hire and then can adjust initial deposit to 1 month if that’s your preference, that makes it £295 down and £295 x23 for 8k miles. If you want 10k miles it changes to £309 down and £309 a month. Insurance is just personal circumstances and where you live etc, it’s only £353 for the year for me. There are no servicing costs either in the 2 years, only thing would maybe be a none repairable puncture as the factory tyres are good for 30k miles plus I’m lead to believe.
The £200 deposit you pay when ordering the car to Tesla also gets refunded to you once lease contract signed.
I think you’ll struggle to find a better value for money personal lease deal comparing list price of car against what your paying over 2 years.
I would highly recommend booking a free 1hr test drive via Tesla app, it’s done completely via the app on your phone and no human intervention at all, you turn up and your phone opens the car and works as the key, get an hour to test it out and you just plug back in after an hour. I found it great, has everything you’d ever need spec wise and couldn’t justify and extra £181 per month the go to the 1 step up premium model, I think the main differences from memory was full leather rather than 1/2 leather, ambient lighting, heated rear seats, a touch screen in back, as it’s a second car, it wouldn’t be stuff that would bother me, certainly not at the price per month for them.
I’ve took up that offer, if anyone is looking to take up a Tesla offer, then my referral code will get both you and me 650 free Supercharging
That’s why I’ve went with EDF over Octupus, they give 7hrs cheap rate 11pm-6am rather than 6hrs, it’s 1p cheaper at 6.99p v 8p for the cheap rate and the peak rate is 4p per kwh cheaper for me too, they also do not appear to be limiting the smart charging to the 6hr limit either that Octupus are introducing
I finally made the decision to go electric as with the overnight charging rate, it works out at between 1.2p and 1.7p per mile in charging costs depending how heavy your right foot is 😅
Cheers, I’ve saw lots of info on Octopus OIG as there is Facebook groups etc, just haven’t saw anything on EDF system/App, from the details on the website, it appears to work same way as Octupus OIG, was hoping for some first hand experience as I can’t see anything online for it.
Is anyone set up on EDF EV tariff with smart bolt-on? I’m still waiting on car being delivered, just wondering how app works to set charging schedules etc
I believe that Octupus have removed IOG fixed tariffs, but think variable may still be available on website rather than app. I was looking to sign up but EDF appear to have the best deal now with Go electric tariff fixed for 12months, they are offering 6.99p overnight but giving you 7hrs 11pm-6am rather than the 6 available from Octupus or EoN Next, there peak rates are also lower for me too. If you then add the smart charging bolt on, you’ll them get a £5 per month discount and also off peak charging during daytime when grid has cheap energy.
I have a referral code which will get a £50 credit added to your account also, if anyone is interested.
https://edfenergy.com/quote/refer-a-friend/warm-yak-9606
PIP payment to Motability is actually £346.67 per month at the moment. £80 per week is £4160 divided by 12 months is £346.67 per calendar month if you want to compare with private leasing prices. That cost will also go up by inflation in 2027 and 2028, will probably average closer to £360 per month over the next 3 years from now
Also pip is paid 4 weekly and not monthly, from 01/04 at £80 per week, £4160 annually, so actually works out at £346.67 per month.
You then also need to factor in the pip rate rises in 2027 and 2028, was over 3.8% this year.
When you add in the £6499 AP, the salary sacrifice will be substantially cheaper over the 3 years.
Obviously would need to factor in the reduced pension contributions and see how that would affect things longer term.
Plugging it in from 2am to 7am should get you about about 125-150miles range in those 5hrs which I imagine should be enough for school run
