Demand Lever - 100D?

[Sir Guacamolaf]

So Tesla pulled a demand lever this morning - you can now order a 100D. 335mi range. Impressive.
There are so many better demand levers they can pull though.

- Up the warranty to 8 years, all inclusive to counter reliability concerns.
- Greatly improve interiors
- Greatly reduce repair costs.

I just feel that this 100D demand lever won't move a lot of cars in Q1. Lets hope I'm wrong.

 

[outie]

Why not? There are MANY people holding out for a 100D. We all know it's coming.

 

[Sir Guacamolaf]

Why not? There are MANY people holding out for a 100D. We all know it's coming.

They'll just switch out to holding for the 120D now.
Reality is, my 70D has never left me "wanting for more range". Sure there is a minority of people who NEED 100D, but I feel that margin is super thin, and thinning further every day.

Anyway .. I really feel that if Tesla up'ed the warranty from 4 to 8 years, that would REALLY move a few cars.
They sell the ext. warranty for 4K, rather than lowering battery price (one day in the future), they should just up the warranty.
Just my 2c.

 

[Sir Guacamolaf]

@outie you have a 60D in SoCal - do you ever feel short of range?

 

[Tech_Guy]

They'll just switch out to holding for the 120D now......

Just my 2c.

Elon Musk on twitter said they would stop at the 100 battery size...

 

[Livver77]

I agree about raising the warranty to 8 yrs especially when you make it up extremely hard to impossible for us to work on or obtain parts for the car

 

[kort677]

- Greatly reduce repair costs.

this has me puzzled, reduced from what?

 

[supratachophobia]

So Tesla pulled a demand lever this morning - you can now order a 100D. 335mi range. Impressive.
There are so many better demand levers they can pull though.

- Up the warranty to 8 years, all inclusive to counter reliability concerns.
- Greatly improve interiors
- Greatly reduce repair costs.

I just feel that this 100D demand lever won't move a lot of cars in Q1. Lets hope I'm wrong.

Soooo many were holding out for that psychological 100kwh/300+ miles real range.

 

[spiderbro]

It's the third week of the quarter. This was an easy 'demand lever' for them to pull. You can bet there will be more this quarter.

To be honest I doubt any of the features you suggest will produce more demand for ordering a car outright.

 

[brkaus]

Interiors may be the only thing on your list that would make a difference... and I don't think too many people have been holding back.

Extended warranty is already available. Yes, at a cost, but dropping the price $4k would up demand more than extending the warranty IMHO.

Improve repair costs isn't measurable, so no dice there.

 

[spiderbro]

"I am not buying this car because ..."

1) The interior is not as good as it could be.
2) The warranty is too short.
3) Repair costs are too high.
4) I am waiting for the best range possible.

Out of these options I personally would go with 4.

 

[outie]

@outie you have a 60D in SoCal - do you ever feel short of range?

No. We don't do road trips and it does the job just fine going around town. On weekend trips I usually get home with no less than 40% (from 100%). I charge once (to 90%) every few days.

 

[gaswalla]

Demand levers in the future probably are related to advanced tech like HUD, environment-aware suspension, autopilot 2.0 advances, etc..