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> *Prices assume IRA Federal Tax Credits up to $7,500 for Rear-Wheel Drive and All-Wheel Drive and est. gas savings of $3,600 over 3 years.See Details Now, tha

> *Prices assume IRA Federal Tax Credits up to $7,500 for Rear-Wheel Drive and All-Wheel Drive and est. gas savings of $3,600 over 3 years.See Details Now, that’s amusing. So they exhibit not the real price of the car? But a hypothetical “price after savings” assuming the tax credits will still exist at the time, and that the buyer is going to stop using their gas car and use the cybertruck the exact same miles? What have we come to? Marketing engineering has gone bonkers! Don’t the US have any regulations that state that car price should be well “what it costs any customer to buy in cash at the time of purchase”?

hunter2_ 3y ago
You're looking at the second tab, "probable savings." Switch to the first tab, "purchase price," and the footnote changes from the one you quoted to this: > All prices are shown without incentives or est. 3-year gas savings.
- zuhsetaqi 3y ago
  But why is the probable savings the default tab?
  - hunter2_ 3y ago
    Probably the same reason that grocery store shelves and circulars show the price with a loyalty card more prominently than the price without a loyalty card: since most people will end up paying that, it's a better number to use when comparison shopping against stores that don't have a loyalty card. Granted, it only works well for comparison shopping if other loyalty card retailers follow suit (highlighting the discounted price that has minor strings attached) but they all do; therefore so long as other EV makers also do this same thing, it works.
    - zuhsetaqi 3y ago
      This comparison is only half valid because in Teslas case they not only reduced the showed price by "IRA Federal Tax Credits" but also "est. gas savings of $3,600 over 3 years". What Tesla did is like Apple showing probalbe savings prices when buying a MacBook because they use less power than "avarage windows laptops".

hunter2_ 3y ago

You're looking at the second tab, "probable savings." Switch to the first tab, "purchase price," and the footnote changes from the one you quoted to this: > All prices are shown without incentives or est. 3-year gas savings.

zuhsetaqi 3y ago
But why is the probable savings the default tab?
- hunter2_ 3y ago
  Probably the same reason that grocery store shelves and circulars show the price with a loyalty card more prominently than the price without a loyalty card: since most people will end up paying that, it's a better number to use when comparison shopping against stores that don't have a loyalty card. Granted, it only works well for comparison shopping if other loyalty card retailers follow suit (highlighting the discounted price that has minor strings attached) but they all do; therefore so long as other EV makers also do this same thing, it works.
  - zuhsetaqi 3y ago
    This comparison is only half valid because in Teslas case they not only reduced the showed price by "IRA Federal Tax Credits" but also "est. gas savings of $3,600 over 3 years". What Tesla did is like Apple showing probalbe savings prices when buying a MacBook because they use less power than "avarage windows laptops".