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Price Drop $1,100
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Free premium LTE. There will always be some kind of connection. The exact details escape my mind but the Premium is going to be inexpensive. $100 a year - nothing.
So getting the price down to 42,500 is pretty close to the promised 35,000 if you consider inflation since they first proposed a 35,000 car many years ago- not so much when they rolled out the Model 3 in 2016 but what they were talking about around the time they started delivering cars at all - Will we ever see them offer a 35,000 Model 3? I don't know. Seems they are selling well enough to not do that any time soon.
M3BlueGeorgia
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Since 2019 purchasers get $3,750 less in the US Federal tax credit, you are still $1,250 up, plus the benefits of driving since October.
I'm one of them, just last week!Cue the angry mob that bought theirs for $44k yesterday.
I'm assuming you would have gotten the 6/9 month free supercharging, so that should even things up.
Glamisduner
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I don't think they are selling well enough, hence the monthly 1-2k drop in price. It's not a good sign at all.
Even a year of supercharging isn't worth $500 let alone $1100.
Situation varies from person to person.
For e.g. I'll spend more than $1100 in 6 months and that is for regular commute+groceries+restaurant trips. Does not include any long pleasure trips.
I mean selling well enough : they are literally selling every car they make as fast as they can make them...it's not like Tesla's inventory is increasing. You could <maybe> make the argument that they aren't increasing production as much as they could but that would be a demand increase. At current production rates there are 0 demand issues regardless of price.
Only for someone driving over 15000 miles in 6 months and only use supercharger to charge...
Glamisduner
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And that sounds like no fun at all. And it's also hard on the battery. And it will take longer since the car will throttle charge rate to prevent excessive wear on the battery.
As for them selling well it took 4 months to get a car when I ordered. A friend ordered his last week and he had a vin in 2-3 days. This indicates there is an inventory and they are not selling as quickly as they intended.
Wow.. just a bunch of babies.. the whole lot of you. Waaaahhhh.
You got what you paid for. You looked at the price and thought to yourself.. "yup.. that's worth it to me. I'm going to buy that!"
It's $1100 ffs. How much have you saved in fuel and maintenance? Sure... maybe not $1100.. but close enough..
My god..
You got what you paid for. You looked at the price and thought to yourself.. "yup.. that's worth it to me. I'm going to buy that!"
It's $1100 ffs. How much have you saved in fuel and maintenance? Sure... maybe not $1100.. but close enough..
My god..
Glamisduner
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The issue isn't the $1100, but that there has been a 1-2k price drop EVERY month.
Agreed and I am very happy about the price cut as a potential customer but you are signaling to the potential customers if they wait they might get a better deal. In my case I have nothing to lose if I delay my purchase until June but by then there could be more price cuts, cheaper versions made available, and new features added (next gen AP or SC) for no additional cost. It is just bad for Tesla if potential buyers keep delaying their purchases...
And the tax credit has decreased in that time window, washing out some of those drops.
At some point it will increase as new features are added. For now, as economies of scale are achieved and in an attempt to get to pricing parity with ICE it will keep going down for a while (IMHO).
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