The 70D has pretty much everything you need as standard. If I lived in California, I wouldn't have any problem with buying a 70D + metallic paint for about 73,900 USD after incentives and including tax and 1,200 USD delivery fee.
That is the lowest price I would consider realistic. So 90k is too high, and 57k is too low.
Exactly! 74K with,
70D
all base options, not even tech package,
and not counting registration/plug installation/xpel/opticoat etc. etc.
74K is the entry ticket to this party! I don't know why people throw around the 57K number.
Gas savings are nullified by higher insurance costs IMO. But even if you count gas savings, IT STILL ISN'T 57K
And lets be honest, if you are buying a Model S, even if it is 70D, you will at the very least get the tech package, atleast 99.99% of us will.
MOST buyers will go for 85D plus a few options = slightly over 100K.
Even if you go for 70D, it's still slightly over 90K.
And majority of us don't live in CA
, most states don't have any income tax reduction benefit (only 6 of them do).
So yes, in reality, it is a 100K car, give or take! Stop throwing the 57K number around.
BTW, in Norway, 100K = 775K NOK (600NOK a year ago) bought you a decent car, but not a crazy high end car.
100K here buys you Audi A7, MB S430, etc. And EV benefits here are nearly not as good as they are in Norway.
Its still a nice car, don't get me wrong.
But people need to stop throwing around the 57K entry price sticker, because that is a bunch of horsepoo.