You can’t take delivery in TX. You would need to have a delivery address east of the Rockies excluding TX. But, part of your purchase profile is a picture of your drivers license so guessing your delivery address may need to match the state of your DL. Also issues of paying tax in the state you purchased the car and then paying tax again in CA when you register it here. Especially for a new vehicle.
I bought two plug-in electric cars in the past in CA, but live in CO, had a shipping company pick them up from the dealer and transport them to a nearby state for us to pickup to save on shipping costs. State and county sales tax get paid locally, the CA dealers do not charge those to out-of-state buyers who ship their cars, but do charge them to buyers who physically pick up their cars there. So, I am guessing that if you have a delivery in another state, and you pick it up there, you will pay that state's sales tax, then pay county taxes when you get plates etc. At the moment, Tesla seems unwilling to let us choose which Tesla location will get our delivery (I want to pick up, not pay for home delivery)--Tesla just assigned me my pickup location. So far, I have not contacted them about this. It might be possible to convince them to let us have a delivery at a center away from where we live, in another state? We would have to go there and pick up, pay the state sales tax, get a temporary plate etc. I am hoping someone else will know more than I do about this...
If yiu we’re assigned a vin you can’t put on hold until an Austin VIN is guaranteed. You can only reject and by rejecting now you will have to take the next VIN assigned or you will lose you order fee. Keep in mind, once deliveries from Austin start, there is no guarantee you’ll get an Austin vin as Austin will need to be delivering about 1000 cars a week to cover the back order of eastern US deliveries. So if you want to guarantee an Austin vin, cancel your order and wait until it is confirmed that Fremont is no longer shipping MY east of the Rockies (and in all reality by this point Fremont should have switched to 4680 just like Austin so it won’t matter).
These are really two-part questions. Most of the focus here is on solving for the right state. But you also need to solve for delivery date. May/June is still probably going to be small chance of an Austin car no matter what state you’re in. As MrBrock notes above, the only way to guarantee it is delay ordering until Austin (or 4680 Fremont) is all that is coming to the state in question.
Unfortunately Oklahoma does not allow direct to consumer delivery.
I don't think that is true, they can (and are planning according to various new outlets) to ship the car out of state and then back into TX, so picking up in TX or in the neighboring state should yield the same probability.
It is highly unlikely that anyone will be able to tell the difference between an Austin MY and a Fremont one. The 4680s best feature to Tesla is it improves their margins. It may make the car a bit lighter, but there is no guarantee of that (at least until you can put an Austin built MY up against a Fremont one). I would more so understand a desire to hold out for Matrix lights, or dual-paned rear windows, a change that will be noticeable.
Could you not put your order on hold once they assigned a vin? I’m in a position where I don’t need a car until May, but my EDd is late March. I was hoping to delay just a little bit.
I imagine a simple glance at the car’s gross weight would immediately differentiate the two as the Austin My should be lighter. Driving dynamics may be harder to tease out for the every day person. I also think that because of decreased weight they can place fewer battery cells for the same range and as a result supercharging may be marginally faster.
There are not many people who can walk up to a car and notice the gross weight, so I doubt that will be how people immediately differentiate Austin vs Fremont. All of that has to be read, just like it will probably need to be read that the 4680s are even installed.
In the door jam of the car there is a sticker that lists the gross weight of the vehicle. I’m no expert, but I believe this is universal
