Ajlepore
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Is your bank holding an interest rate for you for 30 days or something? My credit union has a decent 1.89% that ends tomorrow so I’m hoping they let me lock it in considering my EDD is 5/6-5/20 but no VIN yet
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Lol oops yes, the $275 one. I didn’t check because I’m still hopeful I will be getting one with mine.
Panel Gaps
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Tell me you're a Tesla fan boi without admitting you're a Tesla fan boi.
Haha yeah I’m just a Tesla fan boi. It’s funny how people will complain about Tesla fans blindly supporting the company, but then Tesla haters have no actual understanding of the fundamentals of Teslas business, especially relative to their competitors.
Everyone just makes claims that “competition is coming” because they see other manufacturers releasing new EV models. But nobody mentions how those companies (both legacy manufacturers like GM and Ford as well as new ones like Lucid and Rivian) will take years to scale production (according to their OWN guidance). Meanwhile, Tesla has been doing the hard work of scaling production for years and is making cars at absolutely ridiculous margins (which by Teslas guidance will continue to grow through software and economies of scale).
So in the coming years Tesla will be making more EVs than any other company while EV adoption grows exponentially. And they’ll be making those cars for a much higher profit than other companies. And the other companies will be losing sales of their ICE vehicles, while trying to ramp the costly and difficult EV lines (aka it’s not as easy as slapping a battery onto the bottom of an ICE car framework, looking at you Toyota).
Probably wasn’t worth typing this all out but it’s just annoying seeing so many people who are blind to what’s clearly happening. It’s like people claiming that Apple would never succeed once other smartphones come out. In 5 years, Tesla will be the most valuable company in the world with probably a 3.5 Trillion dollar market cap.
Comparing lucid to Tesla is like comparing apple to the guy down the street making a “smartphone” in his garage
100% agree.
Ford released earnings yesterday and Ford CEO says they will be the #1 EV manufacturer. So how are they going to do that? Well they are AIMING to produce 600k EVs by 2023. Umm, but didn’t tesla just produce over 900k last year, and will continue to scale up massively as berlin and Texas ramp up production?
these competitor CEOs are straight up lying.
and don’t even get me started with GM. ”GM is leading the transition to EVs” proclaimed Biden. Yet GM delivered a WHOPPING 457 EVs last quarter. What a joke.
I'm trying to use Carolina Co-op as well. I got that welcome email yesterday. I have a VIN for Y and an estimated delivery date of May 09 - May 13, but depending on when their snail mail packet shows up it seems unlikely that I can complete a loan with them in time and I'm out-of-state so I can't use them to Refi. Great rates and I hope I can use them, but I've got a few backups in place.
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My understanding is that the $400 one has a NEMA 14-50 plug hardwired into it. It allows charging at 40A instead of the pluggable $275 one with a NEMA 14-50 adapter which is limited to 32A. I've been thinking about ordering the $400 one for use at home so I can leave the mobile connector in the car, where it belongs.
I keep a close eye on the store page for charging options. Both connectors are currently out of stock and at their original $400 and $275 prices.
Not That M3
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Meanwhile Ford quietly made the 2022 Mach-E unavailable to order in the United States for retail customers in any trim level. Ford Mach-E sales in March amounted to 2,363 which is 10.4% less than March 2021. The gross stock of Mach-E in the U.S. was 8,700 (dealerships and transport, we assume) in March.
I'm not entirely sure they will hit their 200k goal of Mach-E's this year. We'll see how they do in 2023, but it doesn't look that great.
Anyways, I digress. Anyone picking up their car this weekend?
KleenM3
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doodlebob424
Member
Oh man that sucks. I have the same config as you and I am in my EDD window with no update... might be pushed back a whole month now tooMy EDD was 4/27-6/1
Today it updated to 5/13 - 6/10. No VIN yet.
E90alex
Active Member
I think VW group is best positioned so far to beat Tesla by volume. They delivered about half of what Tesla did worldwide last year in just their second year of selling BEVs. Chattanooga plant should be coming online soon to make US market ID4.
Of course Tesla is still expanding production with Berlin and Texas factories opening recently and still ramping. Will definitely be interesting to see how the next few years play out in the EV segment and if anyone can catch up or surpass Tesla in volume.
The legacies have many factories worldwide that can be converted to EV production vs Tesla that needs to build out new factories.
Ajlepore
Member
I would prefer having a vin because then I for sure can get the loan locked in
I have not locked a rate before. So, I will go with DCU with 1.99% (2.24% - 0.25%).
After just leaving the MY Waiting Room threads (Picked up my MY last month), guess its time now to join the M3 Waiting Room.
Not in a huge rush to pick up - any big impending upgrades we should be looking out for? I know the new batteries are going into the MY first, and I'm not inclined to wait for that, but would love to know if there are any QOL upgrades coming up.
Not in a huge rush to pick up - any big impending upgrades we should be looking out for? I know the new batteries are going into the MY first, and I'm not inclined to wait for that, but would love to know if there are any QOL upgrades coming up.
Not That M3
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ForestGump
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I just got the text below. No VIN assigned as far as I can tell.
"Hi ~ we currently project to build and deliver your Model 3 within the next few weeks. You can view your latest estimated delivery window in the Tesla App.
Reply "YES" to confirm you will be ready to take delivery."
"Hi ~ we currently project to build and deliver your Model 3 within the next few weeks. You can view your latest estimated delivery window in the Tesla App.
Reply "YES" to confirm you will be ready to take delivery."
Have you read the Lucid forums? Plenty of venting about missed delivery date estimates, poor communication, issues after delivery etc. and at this point Lucid is doing less that 1% of the production volume of Tesla with only a few hundred cars delivered so far. And this is a $140,000 - $180,000 car. Not like Tesla is the only company with issues
(Disclosure- I own both TSLA and LCID stock)
(Disclosure- I own both TSLA and LCID stock)
I ordered my Tesla LR AWD White, 18" aero wheels on Feb 12th from Scottsdale, Arizona. Had a delivery date of 29April to 30th May for a long time since it got pushed to 1st June to 1st July last week. Went to the Tesla showroom yesterday to check and they informed me that 1st June to 1st July is the realistic timeline for me. Definitely feel that the orders in Arizona are being delayed
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