Anyone deciding to just hold it out and wait to buy a used Air after 2 or 3 years from now? Seems unlikely since used cars wont qualify for 7500 tax credit and we live in a weird time where some EVs are even appreciating in value (what?!).
I told myself in the past that I'm never going to buy a car brand new and get massive discount on used models even just 2 years old. As I was driving thinking about my Air reservation I remembered what I told myself before and wondered. Like would a $102k Touring drop to $70k in 3 years? Perhaps a Grand Touring from $139k to $100k? Of course there's a ton of variables. I wonder what people are predicting in terms of depreciation?
I checked some older 2018-2019 Model S. A $100k MSRP 2019 Model S Performance with 40k miles selling for $85k. $135K 2018 P100D with 55k mi for $77k. Tesla did a lot of price cuts and I can't tell exactly the original purchase price of these used S's. Some said they had about 40-50% depreciation in 3-4 years especially for the higher performance models like that 2018 P100D.
I told myself in the past that I'm never going to buy a car brand new and get massive discount on used models even just 2 years old. As I was driving thinking about my Air reservation I remembered what I told myself before and wondered. Like would a $102k Touring drop to $70k in 3 years? Perhaps a Grand Touring from $139k to $100k? Of course there's a ton of variables. I wonder what people are predicting in terms of depreciation?
I checked some older 2018-2019 Model S. A $100k MSRP 2019 Model S Performance with 40k miles selling for $85k. $135K 2018 P100D with 55k mi for $77k. Tesla did a lot of price cuts and I can't tell exactly the original purchase price of these used S's. Some said they had about 40-50% depreciation in 3-4 years especially for the higher performance models like that 2018 P100D.