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The new price of the long range Model Y, $52990, is still $4000 higher than the $48,990 base price that's printed on my February 2021 invoice. Back then, the d
by tverbeure 4y ago
The new price of the long range Model Y, $52990, is still $4000 higher than the $48,990 base price that's printed on my February 2021 invoice.
Back then, the delivery time of a Model Y was only 3 weeks, ridiculously short compared to any other car or car brand at the time. Shortly after, delivery times shot up to over 6 months or more, and the price went along with it.
The price that I paid was IMO fair. I've had zero issues with it, it's much more fun to drive than the more expensive German car of my wife, I love autopilot for long distance driving (I will never buy or use FSD though), and 30k miles later, I've saved around $5k (ok, let's make it $3k) compared to using gas in the 2 years that I've owned it.
But I would never have bought it for yesterday's price of $65k.
- fallingknife 4y agoThat's 8%. Close to inflation. edit: it's actually much less. According to the BLS inflation calculator $48,990 is equivalent to $55,282 now
- tverbeure 4y agoGood point. Inflation may well have been higher than 8% over 2 years.
- ericpauley 4y agoHow does that $5k savings number work out? If electricity were free, that'd be an implied gas price of $6/gal for the entire time (for a 35 mpg car). Anywhere with gas prices that high (e.g., California) probably has high electric prices to match (e.g., 30c/kWh in CA would imply $8.50 per gallon at a conservative 4mi/kWh).
- tverbeure 4y agoThe night time PG&E EV rate in the Bay Area is something like $0.25c/kWh and $0.15c/kWh flat-free in Truckee where we spend a lot time. We also have solar. It's probably a bit less than $5k, but still a good first-order engineering approximation.