I haven't been an observer of this for long but it seems to me like now is a better moment to buy from the inventory than it was in the run up to the last quarter end and since. That said I probably still won't do it, for my own reasons.
A good number of pre-refresh cars have appeared on the Tesla new inventory pages, at relatively good prices. They may have been there a few days, but not more. When I was looking before, I didn't generally see a material discount from buying from the inventory.
Trying to be dispassionate it seems to me that the increase in real worth of a new 100kWh car over a pre-change 100kWh car would be less than the value premium was of a 100kWh car over a 75kWh car, because the principal (accepted, not only) real-world effect is 10% range. I guess the second hand market in a few years time may differentiate materially, but it may not.
The "market" premium as defined by the difference between this car:
Model S 100D 5YJSB7E22KF309155 | Tesla UK (picked simply because it's the colour I've ordered)
and an otherwise identically specced custom order today is c.£12k.
Interested to hear what you experienced folk think?
A good number of pre-refresh cars have appeared on the Tesla new inventory pages, at relatively good prices. They may have been there a few days, but not more. When I was looking before, I didn't generally see a material discount from buying from the inventory.
Trying to be dispassionate it seems to me that the increase in real worth of a new 100kWh car over a pre-change 100kWh car would be less than the value premium was of a 100kWh car over a 75kWh car, because the principal (accepted, not only) real-world effect is 10% range. I guess the second hand market in a few years time may differentiate materially, but it may not.
The "market" premium as defined by the difference between this car:
Model S 100D 5YJSB7E22KF309155 | Tesla UK (picked simply because it's the colour I've ordered)
and an otherwise identically specced custom order today is c.£12k.
Interested to hear what you experienced folk think?