Thank you, it would be LR or premium I am considering anyway for the extra range so that is good to hear!
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Elon: Model 3 UK orders start “in a few weeks”
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Thank you, it would be LR or premium I am considering anyway for the extra range so that is good to hear!
WannabeOwner
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Electrek reporting RHD Orders will start next week in UK
Tesla is launching Model 3 RHD next week, starting with the UK
Tesla is launching Model 3 RHD next week, starting with the UK
The SR+ should start at ~£40k based on prices in mainland Europe. Keep in mind that the “Purchase Price” in the online configurator already includes the £3.5k government incentive.
Whether the SR+ will be available to order next week is of interest to me as well as that’s the car I intend to order. I give it 50/50, but these odds have improved over the last month or so (SR+ being available ahead of schedule in mainland Europe and talk of overall demand constraints for model 3). I’d be interested to hear what others think on this though.
M3BlueGeorgia
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That's SR+ and Tesla haven't yet released it in LHD Europe, but are supposed to do so later this year.
The SR+ is available to order in Europe. There hasn’t been any deliveries yet though.
I would assume it'll be the Standard Range Plus, Long Range AWD, and Long Range AWD Performance, like in other European countries - at least until they rejig the lineup again...
But we'll find out on Wednesday/Thursday!
sweter
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Yea, I'm pretty sure the options will be the same as in the rest of Europe. And order of deliveries probably will be from highest to lowest price. Tesla is guiding "up to 6 months" delivery time for SR+ in e.g. The Netherlands. So that might still be a wait...
Don't think previous reservation will have any serious meaning. Maybe delivery scheduled a week earlier. But based on the "delivery hell" I experienced in Europe even that won't matter and delivery order will be completely random, especially in areas like London.
Exciting none the less. When I was driving my Model 3 through the UK in March and April I met quite a few excited Model S/X owners at Superchargers. It's an amazing car to drive through UK countryside.
Don't think previous reservation will have any serious meaning. Maybe delivery scheduled a week earlier. But based on the "delivery hell" I experienced in Europe even that won't matter and delivery order will be completely random, especially in areas like London.
Exciting none the less. When I was driving my Model 3 through the UK in March and April I met quite a few excited Model S/X owners at Superchargers. It's an amazing car to drive through UK countryside.
Elon has previously mentioned ~£33k for a base 3, do we think that is going to be ex VAT? Or is just a made up number we should ignore?
I'm also hoping for something around the £40k mark, but would really like a step up from SR+. Am preparing for disappointment tho :-\.
I'm also hoping for something around the £40k mark, but would really like a step up from SR+. Am preparing for disappointment tho :-\.
theoceanwaves
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theoceanwaves
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Yeh - we do get a great deal on ludicrous mode..
If you're wondering about the comparison - I've created a calculation spreadsheet here for UK payments
Model 3 UK PCP Price Calculator
If you're wondering about the comparison - I've created a calculation spreadsheet here for UK payments
Model 3 UK PCP Price Calculator
Do you have a sense of how many orders there would have been prelaunch? And how many RHD Elon would be shipping per month? In short, how long do you feel it will take them to deliver cars ordered on May 1st?
There were no ‘pre-orders’ only reservations which in the U.K. means very little in terms of priority IMO (and based on Model S & X launches). They are churning out cars at a good rate now, so clearing a potential backlog of demand - especially for the the more expensive variants won’t take long at all.
Transit time is a couple of months, shorter than normal as they aren’t going via the Tilburg rebuild / import tax get around. My guess is that they will be prioritising LHD for European deliveries for end of Q2, knowing they can’t get RHD delivered before end of the Q. Mid July for the earliest and then as many as they can get in for the end of Q3.
WannabeOwner
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Interesting; Tesla are quoting June ... I wonder if LHD deliveries are overloading EU Service Centres, and running Freemont for a few days 100% on RHD gives them some options to balance deliveries in Europe. Of course that just overloads UK service centres ...
But if so might come sooner.than Q3
It’s also possible that they have already produced a bunch of RHD and they are enroute. The options range is very limited so it would be easy to produce plenty of cars that would be snapped up. Would be good load balancing between the LHD and RHD markets to max the deliveries without overwhelming one of the other.
WannabeOwner
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Midnight Star
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I believe that Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) are registered prior to or at the point of production. I am not aware of large numbers of RHD VINs being registered yet for the Model 3, which would suggest that the cars have not yet been manufactured
Tesla Model 3 VIN Registrations Exceed 400,000
Tesla Model 3 VIN Registrations Exceed 400,000
