To be fair, unbelievers usually don't WANT to hear the good bits, they are happy with their prejudices.
However, there is a large bunch of misinformed people out there who will listen...
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Tesla Model 3 in Australia
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However, there is a large bunch of misinformed people out there who will listen...
Great, thanks - I’ve been on the look out for some (not sure I want all weather, just some nice carpet ones would do, but hard to find).
Does anyone know if the UK folk have been able to buy RHD carpet mats from Tesla yet?
It’s really annoying that only the USA has an online Tesla Accessories store. I suspect here we will just have to keep calling the service/sales staff only to be told that everything’s out of stock.
I am right there with you. So funny to hear others scouring the internet (especially YouTube) for any new Model 3 videos! Once I confirm there is no new AU delivery info (which is basically everyday), I am off to watch any new rando Southern California or UK first impression videos! Top quality. We need AU rando delivery videos!
Well, an ever better way to make their head explode is to point out that up to half of Australia's oil directly or indirectly comes from the Middle East. So if they are an Islamaphobe, then they need to stop buying petrol, because they can’t be sure their petrol dollar isn’t ending up funding some authoritarian, anti-Western regime.
For all you guys with Model 3’s on their way to Oz... I am just back from a week driving a Model 3 around California. It was fantastic. I rented it through Turo - a Performance model. I had my wife and two kids in it and plus our bags.
TBH the luggage space was a bit limiting and the trunk clearly suboptimal to the new hatch in our cars, but we made it work. But otherwise the car is incredible. Stupid fast, crazy tight in the corners and looked great. Just feels so much smaller and more nimble than my Model S.
I quickly settled into having only the one center display. There are times when it is limiting - Nav instructions not visible when the kids are searching new music etc. But I really like the 16:9 layout and changing TACC speed by toggling on the screen. I am sure the next gen S/X will go with the 16:9 but with an IDS as well.
Overall I loved it and you guys should all be excited. You’re going to love your cars.
TBH the luggage space was a bit limiting and the trunk clearly suboptimal to the new hatch in our cars, but we made it work. But otherwise the car is incredible. Stupid fast, crazy tight in the corners and looked great. Just feels so much smaller and more nimble than my Model S.
I quickly settled into having only the one center display. There are times when it is limiting - Nav instructions not visible when the kids are searching new music etc. But I really like the 16:9 layout and changing TACC speed by toggling on the screen. I am sure the next gen S/X will go with the 16:9 but with an IDS as well.
Overall I loved it and you guys should all be excited. You’re going to love your cars.
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nigwil
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Another delivery data-point, financier indicated that they would be in contact "1-2 weeks prior to the day you pick your vehicle up", so still looking like mid to late August.
baillies
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You could also refresh the accessory page to see when model 3 accessories are added
Vehicle Upgrades & Accessories
Kiwiadventure
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Do cars often get delivered via container ship instead of roro? I would have guessed given the volume of cars it would have to have been a roro, but I know nothing about car deliveries.... Surely containers would be far more expensive?
It is more expensive via container once you go beyond a certain volume. All Tesla’s to date have been delivered by container ship to Australia and New Zealand. It is easy to track - 1 shipping company only does the route.
So we are watching both RoRo and container ships. Surely the volume has to come soon right. We know where to look for the RoRo - Tesla Pier 80 San Francisco. A RoRo ship has to turn up right now to have any chance of getting bulk deliveries in August. But there has been nothing there bound for here yet. So by deduction, if August is going to happen at all, containers are the only likely alternative - and that means small volumes.
The container ships are once a week. The press/demo Model 3s came this way.
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Regarding watching RORO, are you still keeping an eye on the ships that departed to China? (COSCO Tengfei, Glovis Prime). Is there a chance they offload bulk RHD in CN and then make a run down here with the leftovers?
Yes. Am tracking through European people tracking these. 1 is Aug 4, 1 is Aug 13 for China.
I would put the chances as very slim we have a vehicle transfer considering the logistics or a half empty ship coming this way. Given the distance and time the economics probably don’t make it very likely. But the chance isn’t zero.
Likeliest scenario
1. A small number via container weekly in August just like the UK - small initial shipments. Ticks box - deliveries commencing in August - press event. Some of us win the Model 3 lottery and the rest of us dirty as hell.
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2. 1 RoRo - bulk delivery in Sept OR containers continue at small volumes.
Grenadine
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Agree 100%
As discussed a while ago now, the important date for Tesla is the end of the quarter (30 Sept). They need as many cars in owners hands by then as possible, because only then can they recognise revenue (and collect cash). We’ve seen them push deliveries hard towards the end of every quarter for as long as I’ve been following them.
So, a few cars here by August helps them say they stuck to their promised timeframe, but the bulk by end Sept to help with their financials.
You are assuming a large volume has been sold in australia. That may not be the case. There is still the ongoing reality that there are no Roro’s scheduled into NZ. Seems to me thats its going to be containers, several each week for the foreseeable future.
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