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$5000 price drop on Model X.
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KentuckyX
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Wow. $88,480 if you get FSD and upgrade to a nicer interior. Apparently, they ARE worried about the Y stealing the thunder.
Uncle Paul
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Tesla is not worrying about anything. When their costs of production drop, they often reflect than in their selling prices.
For the competition, Tesla has always been a moving target. They continously put downward pressure on their production/selling costs, increases range, add technology and ramping up production volume.
For the competition, Tesla has always been a moving target. They continously put downward pressure on their production/selling costs, increases range, add technology and ramping up production volume.
they also removed free unlimited supercharging with that 5k drop
As a new 2020 X owner, I'm glad to see they removed the free unlimited supercharging with the drop. That would have stung pretty bad had they not...lol. I'm OK with the trade-off.
larmor
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Maybe related to upcoming improvement in battery... Pricing is like other tech, more features same price, so presumably they had to lower the price for older tech.
Percentage wise they lowered the price more on a Model 3 than a Model X. So much for that theory.
And with Superchargjng removed from Model X they didn’t lower the price at all as far as I’m (and many others are) concerned. I use Supercharging 2/3 of the time.
Yinn
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Did they drop anything else?
FWIW, my 2016 X is often at the supercharger slurping up that free goodness, but I haven't used anywhere near $5,000 worth.
By my calculations, if I exclusively charged at the SC to avoid paying electric at home, I'd need 90,000 miles of supercharging to make up that $5,000. That's ignoring my time spent sitting there, miles added driving to and from, etc.
If I figure in paid supercharging rates (0.28/kwh) that's 17,857kwh. At an average of let's say 400wh/mi, that's 44,642 of supercharged miles to break even.
So for the ease of comparison, for anyone who generally keeps their cars only until warranty expires. This change benefits you. For anyone who drives it until it dies, it does not....unless it dies really early.
Yinn
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You should be able to do a filter on it. When they pulled it back in 2016/2017, current inventory kept free supercharging. That was a long time ago and a different Tesla, so I'm not sure what they do nowadays.
According to my rep yes. So I snagged an inventory today at the reduced cost but free SC
I reserved a LR+ over the weekend awaiting delivery to my local SC. Then I saw the price drop last night. I emailed my rep. this AM and he said he can only do 5k off or keep the supercharging. I checked the local inventory and inquired why the current stock was discounted and had free supercharging still. He stated as long as car is in stock they will honor discount and supercharging. So I went ahead and cancelled my initial reservation and re-reserved the same X again when it came back to local inventory. Discounted price, free supercharging, exact config I wanted.
Good job, congratulations on having your cake and eating it, too! Enjoy your discounted X with free supercharging.
Just curious, since you canceled, did he give an ETA on when it will go back in the Inventory with the reduced price?
It was relatively quick. I cancelled, walked away to tend to my kids and not more than 5 mins, the rep called me to tell me that it's already showing in inventory/website.
KentuckyX
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None of the used inventory added to the website last night have free supercharging. The ones previously on the site have retained it (so far). Elon giveth, Elon taketh.
Yinn
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Just a word of caution. Short term gains vs long term pains. Some HW 2.0 owners did the same when they ended the free supercharging in 2017. A couple months later, HW2.5 came out. 2.5 didn't have free supercharging, but they had a bunch of additional goodies. Equipment was made standard that were previously options. There were also hardware upgrades that were launched that enabled future software (ie, dashcam) that the older version didn't have.
To some it may not matter, to some it may. Figure I'd point it out.
It may matter to me. What do you see in your crystal ball? The $5k finally pushed me over the edge to go for the X over the Y. Plaid has been the biggest consideration, but thought that was a ways off for the X.
Or they've been shut down and they really need shift vehicles now, during a period when people would otherwise be much less likely to make large, frivolous purchases.
Yep, FUSC has very little value. If I didn't have FUSC, I would have probably spent $300-$400 for 15,000 miles of supercharging.
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