Model 3 Mid Range Battery Available

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Post by arturogarrido » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 9:58 PM UTC

Model 3 Mid Range Battery Available
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Post by krrrh » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 10:14 PM UTC

Just in case anyone is wondering how this plays out pricewise, the base model is $46.2k, but they headline the price as $33.2k:

Price $45,000

Incentives: -$7,500

Gasoline savings: -$4,300

Price after savings: $33,200

Destination & doc fee: $1,200

It's rather disappointing that for all the talk from Tesla about disrupting the way people buy cars they maintain nonsense practices like adding on destination and doc fees, and add new ones like working gasoline savings into the displayed price.

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Post by asaph » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 10:14 PM UTC

RWD base price is $33,200 (after incentives), even less than the long quoted base price of $35k, though presumably incentives on the standard battery Model 3 (not yet available) would make the after incentives price even cheaper.

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Post by SEJeff » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 10:14 PM UTC

This is mostly the end game of Elon's Tesla Master plan:

https://solartribune.com/master-plan/

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 10:15 PM UTC

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Post by eclipxe » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 10:15 PM UTC

asaph wrote: post #3

RWD base price is $33,200 (after incentives), even less than the long quoted base price of $35k, though presumably incentives on the standard battery Model 3 (not yet available) would make the after incentives price even cheaper.

...after tax incentives and "gas savings"

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Post by FireBeyond » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 10:16 PM UTC

krrrh wrote: post #2

Just in case anyone is wondering how this plays out pricewise, the base model is $46.2k, but they headline the price as $33.2k: Price $45,000 Incentives: -$7,500 Gasoline savings: -$4,300 Price after savings: $33,200 Destination & doc fee: $1,200 It's rather disappointing that for all the talk from Tesla about disrupting the way people buy cars they maintain nonsense practices like adding on destination and doc fees,…

Only in the US would be advertising a sticker price that includes hypothetical "gas savings" be not considered misleading to the consumer.

Perhaps if they want to advertise gas savings they should be forced to also add "increased home electricity costs".

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Post by imladyboy » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 10:17 PM UTC

It also appears they have removed the option for purchasing the "Full Self Driving" functionality.

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Post by elihu » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 10:18 PM UTC

> Model 3 Mid Range Rear-Wheel Drive $45,000

> Incentives - $10,000

> Gas Savings- $4,300

> Price after Est. Savings $30,700

This is good news, but it's still not the $35,000 model.

Also, what's the breakdown on the incentives? I thought the federal rebate was $7500 if they haven't run out of those yet. Are they including state rebates (which presumably aren't the same everywhere)?

Including "gas savings" in the price seems more than a little disingenuous.

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Post by FireBeyond » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 10:18 PM UTC

asaph wrote: post #3

RWD base price is $33,200 (after incentives), even less than the long quoted base price of $35k, though presumably incentives on the standard battery Model 3 (not yet available) would make the after incentives price even cheaper.

No. It is impossible, even with incentives to get it for under $37,500 - because that base price includes "gas savings" that are not in any way an actual discount on purchase price.