Could you pay Tesla to hold the car for you for a month or so? The isolation/quarantine rules will be relaxed at some point, likely within that time frame. Then you can drive it back yourself.
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Can someone from Tesla offer suggestions?
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Spoke to the sales rep today, and he's working on how to make this happen. Thanks for the confidence to tell him it can and does happen.
I'm looking to ship it with Shiply. Looks like the cost difference as opposed to me flying out is minimal, and with hotels factored in, it's probably nothing.
So to close up this thread, since I was asked to provide a final status, I picked up the car last night. Shiply worked as a transport provider, and my advisor was able to arrange release of the vehicle without my physical presence. All in, it cost a couple of thousand dollars and a few dozen hours. Once figured out and settled though, it was pretty easy.
I'd like to see Tesla offer a standard price to move the vehicle for you, but interestingly, as I was picking up the car, there was another guy in the dealership asking to do the exact same thing from literally the same location. He was told a flat no. It occurs to me that there's a business opportunity waiting for someone here...
Anyway, my wife has her car, and between last night and this morning, enough people have drooled over it that she is mostly over her frustrations and all is well.
I'd like to see Tesla offer a standard price to move the vehicle for you, but interestingly, as I was picking up the car, there was another guy in the dealership asking to do the exact same thing from literally the same location. He was told a flat no. It occurs to me that there's a business opportunity waiting for someone here...
Anyway, my wife has her car, and between last night and this morning, enough people have drooled over it that she is mostly over her frustrations and all is well.
As far as the "is it worth the cost here", we drive about 100000kms a year on each of our cars. About 50% of that is superchargers, but lets say 40000kms to be conservative and because the math is easier. At 400kms per full charge (more in summer, less in winter), that's 100 charges of $20(Canadian) each for a total of $2000/year. The X allows us to tow our RV, so this will rapidly go up, especially in the winter.
I expect to keep the car for 10 years (my Prius prior to my MS has over 800000 kms on it) so $20K in fuel savings, plus $1300 for FSD prior to the price increase. So inventory vs factory did make sense in my case, even though it doesn't in most. And I'm quite happy with the end result, even if most of the frustration was needless and could have easily been avoided.
I expect to keep the car for 10 years (my Prius prior to my MS has over 800000 kms on it) so $20K in fuel savings, plus $1300 for FSD prior to the price increase. So inventory vs factory did make sense in my case, even though it doesn't in most. And I'm quite happy with the end result, even if most of the frustration was needless and could have easily been avoided.
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Just by curiosity, did you have any additional sales taxes?
I was reading recently about a CPO sold in California and sent to Florida.
The new owner had to paid sales taxes to each of those two states...
Note: As a consolation, he only had to paid the 7.5% California taxes
and didn't have to paid the additional county of residence sales taxes which are in most locations 2%.
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I didn't. I bought it through the dealership in Alberta, and I'm an Alberta resident so I paid Alberta taxes. Unfortunately, that also means I do not receive EV rebates from Ontario (if there still are any).
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