I got a confirmation and scheduled for collection end of this month, can I know more about your situation? I really needed a 72 plate instead of 22 which I will find it very silly to have mine picked up on the 27th of this month. How is the collection scheduled for you? Did you get a text and scheduled to pick up next month? How come you got the plates and know so much about your car now? I hope you can share some info
I'm buying through Tesla, it not a lease or anything..
I got a text back in late July to schedule my delivery it offered me a few dates the earliest being 2nd September which is a Friday so that works for me.
I get a a text later saying they will send me over a reg but it's delayed because they are awaiting 72 plates from the DVLA.
They now have 72 plates and have allocated me one... But they won't be able to actually register with the DVLA till the day of collection..
This isn't a Tesla thing car dealerships selling new cars get assigned in bulk unregistered reg numbers that can use to reg a new car, that way you can give a reg number in advanced, but standard practice is to register it on or very near the day of collection... If it's registered before then that would be a pre reg and you won't be the 1 first registered owner... But this isn't what Tesla do..
So basically if your collection is on 1st September or later it'll be a 72 as only 72 plates can be registered with the DVLA from that date forward...
If it's before it'll be a 22 plate..
I'm not personally that bothered, but it's nice to have a 72 as I'm going to be owning the car, so might be better as it's technically 6 months newer for selling later... But if I was only offered August dates I'd have taken it, as it was I was only offered early September...
But if I was leasing it never going to matter.
I'm collecting from Manchester and then tends to add a day or so lead time as the car has to get up north from Southampton, so if you are collecting from the south that may have influenced the slightly earlier dates...