The less baggage you arrive here, the better.
Even more so as apartments are small and storage-space is thus expensive ;-)
There's also mobility.ch:
https://www.mobility.ch/en/private-c...ons-and-prices
Though it's IMO only worthwhile if you need a car just for a very short trip, e.g. doing a huge shopping haul or so. Longer rentals are definitely done better through sixt et.al.
Public transport is very good, almost unrivaled in Europe I believe.
I mentioned finding a place where home charging is difficult only to make you aware this is something you need to put attention when looking for an apartment or house. Not to discourage you from having a car.
Switzeland is beautiful. I had a all inclusive public transport ticket (GA) for train, bus, ships for several years. It was nice, but...by 15h00 or 16h00 I had to start getting back home from any nice place. Otherwise, I could not reach home. 1 day trips in public transport don't work :/
It just means you have to get up early
You can take a nap in the train.
(If you arrive early enough to get a seat, or have reserved one - impossible to reserve spaces for bikes, though...).
Depending on when you leave (and from where/to), you get in a traffic jam on your way home, in your car.
Not so enjoyable either...
Had an AG for 5 years, the cozy nap in the train is a dream. It seems the intense white light in the cars is designed to make sleep as uncomfortable as possible. The only times I've slept in the train was drunk or extremely tired that I could sleep on the floor.
But, I get it. There's people who don't like to drive. I do like to drive an on top of that lived 6 years without a car....so need to recover the missing time
PS. I cannot vote, but I hope the yes vote on the CO2 referendum wins. Less congestion.
It may be useful to rent a parking spot with the apartment though, if you can. It increases your options, and if you're in Lucerne proper ("city") it's probably trivial to subrent until you actually need it.
Thus far we are impressed. It can charge from the Tesla Wall Connector, which comes off our solar panels when the sun is shinning. Interestingly it is not as efficient at the much faster Tesla, which uses 17% less!
It’s almost the same size as the Golf, but taller due to batteries under the floor, so many of the controls are already familiar.
The model range is over-complicated with too many option packages. It would be easier if you could just add what you wanted and not have to sort through lists of packages. The interior is a bit un-luxurious and stark but it has some nice tricks, like slowing down on cruise control before the speed limit signs when on cruise control.
My worry is that while Tesla has sold out of Model 3s for months to come, there are close to 500 iD3s on Autoscout24.ch mainly dealers who it seems can‘t shift them. This is doubtless the reason for the 24-hour test drive action. They are also selling with a discount.
It‘s a good car, but why aren‘t they selling??
The 4x4 version of the ID.3 does not exist and the 4x4 version of the ID.4 4x4 (a.k.a. GTX) is just coming out. No idea when deliveries are going to start.
Eniaq IV is sold out for a year, AFAIK.
Switzerland, even though you can get by with RWD 360+ days a year, is a 4x4 country in the same way people are 50-100% overinsured even though it's one of the safest places on earth ;-)
Most of these vehicles are sold with way too large tires IMO. That kills the efficiency.
At least, Tesla still sells the Model 3 with 18" wheels and the Model Y with 19".
Another problem is 2/3 of people rent, only 1/3 own the home where they live. So, charging at home is a challenge for a significant fraction of potential customers. Eventually, landlords will catch up with demand and install a few chargers per building. I guess this is only the start of the transition to EVs.
Anyway, sales are not that bad:
This year until 31st May: 975.
What happened there?
I guess, range isn't really an issue when you drive in Switzerland, mainly.
From what I heard, the 2021 Model 3s are much, much improved over their 2019 cousins. Even more range with better efficiency, better noise insulation, motorized trunk, heated steering wheel, heat-pump, better lights - and much better build and paint quality (disregarding the "cloudy-white" intermezzo earlier this year or whenever, when apparently Tesla tried to squeeze a few minutes off the time it takes to dry the paint...).
Delivery-quality is still a mixed bag, apparently, but overall the quality has improved - no doubt because the European market has different requirements regarding fit-and-finish, features and overall view of the car (few people (if any) here desire to rent out their car as robo-taxi, even if that was possible)...
The Hyundai/KIA models coming do look nice - but there's always a good chance that the Koreans screw-up the software and never bother to fix it.
E.g. I've recently read from people who had to learn the hard way that the "phone-as-key" feature of their (ICE)-Hyundais only works a limited number of times. I.e. you can unlock your car with your phone (Tesla-style) - but only as long as you haven't exceeded the total amount of "openings" your are allotted.
If this happens in the middle of nowhere, you're f'ed. Because Hyundai certainly cannot (or does not want to) open your car remotely (unlike Tesla apparently does, if you can somehow prove that you are indeed the owner).
Fixes for serious bugs do come around for Teslas, though not always super-quick either. And until they do, you have to suck it up, too.
- Tesla's strategy to wait for Grünheide plant to be operational and assemble model Y in Europe. No signs of production to start before the end of 2021. So, lost sales.
- Global chip shortage: Tesla minimizes the problems in the parts supply chain in messages to investors. However, the problem is there and cars cannot be completed and sold.
- Competition finally arrived: Tesla has not small hatchback, no small SUV (at least in Europe), no sports car, no luxury sedan while the competition is arriving with this. The model S is a luxury sedan according to the US interpretation of the term, the model 3 is a subcompact with the price of a larger car and the model X is too large for local tastes.
-Bored consumers? First adopters are first adopters and ballers are ballers. They want the new shinny thing and Tesla is not delivering anything new. You can buy today a used model S for less than 40K CHF (even 30K) while a 100+K one looks the same. Anyone willing to spend 100+K on a car want something different. The new generation of model X and S are like 2 years late so far.