CO2 / tax
0g/km
Free
Range
374 miles (Performance)
£26 fill-up @32p/kWh
Performance
0-62mph/top speed
3.3 seconds/162mph
NO car brand has done more than Tesla to drive the transition towards electric transport for the masses. When the US firm was launched in 2003, a year before Elon Musk began investing in it (he became CEO in 2008), its mission from the outset was to build only battery-powered EVs.
It’s been a rocky road for Tesla, but the Model 3 was the first EV in the world to sell more than one million units, which was achieved in summer 2021. The Model 3 is also a best seller in the UK, but Tesla is a brand that doesn’t have a squeaky-clean reputation when it comes to build quality and reliability. So should you take the plunge and buy a used Tesla Model 3?
History
THE first US-market Model 3s were delivered in the summer of 2017, but buyers in the UK had to
