Ouch, already saw a used 2018 Model 3 LR RWD for sale:
2018 Tesla Model 3 Long Range RWD - Mississauga
It's listed at $56,990 w/15.8k km's.
At the original base price of $72k I guess that's around 26% depreciation in a year. I was hoping to sell mine and upgrade to performance but I think I'll have to hold on to it for now lost too much depreciation on it (plus mine has FSD). This seems like a better deal than an SR+ even with the rebate ($55-5=$50k vs $57k LR).
Quoting depreciation without taking the 14k incentive into account is really misleading. This 'depreciation' issue with EVs has been around since the start, and I can't tell you the number of times I've heard people complain about how their car is worth 1/2 of a new one, and totally ignore the rebate they got. When you get a rebate on the car, it is immediately factored into the resale value. The Model 3 RWD did not list for 72k as a base price, so I'm not sure why that is being thrown out there...RWD was around 64k (as someone else mentioned).
Edit: just saw how you came up to 72k as your price....dude, you can't factor in the sales tax you paid on a car and call that part of depreciation....are you serious? You take the price you paid BEFORE tax, and take off the rebate AFTER tax...that's what you paid for the car and what the starting price is for a used car to compare to....the person buying the car still has to pay tax on it, so you cant double dip...sorry....
The listing doesn't say if it includes autopilot or FSD, so that doesn't factor in to the price. The seller says it has a ceramic coating and tints, which typically wont make much difference to the next purchaser. Either way, this certainly isn't a case of `26% depreciation'.
Any car will depreciate by about 20% after the first year, and 10% per year after that....add to this the gigantic 14k rebate, and I'll bet that this model 3 is crazy overpriced (so, Elon was right....Tesla's are now appreciating assets apparently!
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The incentive is applied after tax, so its an effective 14k/1.13 = 12,389 off of the MSRP. 64000 - 12389 = $51,611, so this is actually a case where the seller is trying to sell the car for more than what they paid, and after putting 16k km on it....I wish them luck
And if they didn't qualify for the incentive; welcome to the real world where thousands of model 3s did get incentives applied, so unfortunately this seller does have to factor that into the resale price.....
Now, if this car did include EAP and FSD I could see an argument for it being 'worth' 57k with 16,000 km on it, but I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole at that price.