mreynolds767
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The "New Inventory" cars do not have their actual VIN# listed to my knowledge.If for an order yes. But for inventory, if the non credit eligible person chooses to lease the credit eligible car and the eligible person wants to buy one and all they have is non eligible cars, you cut your SAM on the inventory cars. There is nothing keeping the non credit eligible person from taking the eligible car. It’s not that big of a deal, but my point was it wasn’t straightforward genius.
Many times Tesla may show 1 vehicle on the website as in inventory and available for immediate pickup at x location BUT they could in fact have 10 of the same matching config. ; so in those cases (the popular configs) they could easily have some i and some e and assign them to the appropriate buyers and the buyer would never be the wiser.
This is also why the actual inventory count for Telsa is much higher than reported on sites like Telsa Info as these matching configs in the same lot are counted as only 1 vehicle.
If the inventory car is being sold as i on the website ; one can assume with high confidence they have no matching e version. But if they have both they could sell them as e on the site and then assign them once purchased/leased.