Thekiwi
Active Member
There are also local subsidies to consider - for instance here In New Zealand where the Y launched last week, it probably is unlikely to see the model Y SR ever going over $80k (NZD) including sales tax, where it would lose the $8,625k subsidy. (Current price including delivery fee is $78,243 for SR Y in white, so not much room for increases).Recently watched tesla economist video and thought if Tesla had the lower pricing for the new countries, they would in effect lock in some of recession orders (by providing lower pricing). Then raise it in few weeks/months for those countries. Also thought that it would be upsetting after waiting all these years. Tesla can be ordered but at such a high premium, if they started with the hiked price.
Current price without sales tax but including delviery fee is $68,039 NZD, which if converted to USD at current 0.63c rate = $42,863 US dollars. Pretty good deal actually all things considered. (The model 3 SR is jsut slightly less goes for $42,151 USD including delviery fee.)