Tesla Model S 85 Price Reduction

Tesla Model S 85 Price Reduction

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rossfitz

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501 posts

256 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Specified one of these 6 weeks ago for a business lease quote and, just done so again, noticed cost reduced by £6,000 or so. That's handy! Also, couldn't specify parking sensors, but assume they now come with new forward facing camera.

AmitG

3,336 posts

165 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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I'd love to know how many they have sold (or leased) to date.

DSLiverpool

14,984 posts

207 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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rossfitz said:
Specified one of these 6 weeks ago for a business lease quote and, just done so again, noticed cost reduced by £6,000 or so. That's handy! Also, couldn't specify parking sensors, but assume they now come with new forward facing camera.
Can you do this online ?

rossfitz

Original Poster:

501 posts

256 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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http://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/models/design

use this link to spec and price up the model s

DSLiverpool

14,984 posts

207 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Ta

adamfawsitt

529 posts

218 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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AmitG said:
I'd love to know how many they have sold (or leased) to date.
Best estimates are that about 850 cars have been delivered in the UK so far.

AmitG

3,336 posts

165 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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adamfawsitt said:
AmitG said:
I'd love to know how many they have sold (or leased) to date.
Best estimates are that about 850 cars have been delivered in the UK so far.
Interesting - thanks. That's quite impressive.

Jon1967x

7,383 posts

129 months

Wednesday 5th November 2014
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https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/vehicle/tesla_model_...

192 the last time the figures were calculated in q1 - so by now could easily be over 600 as suggested

oop north

1,604 posts

133 months

Wednesday 12th November 2014
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You may or may not be aware that prices and available options etc changed last Friday quite a bit - a couple of colours disappeared (green and brown) and certain spec combinations disappeared (60kwh with four wheel drive). I priced a car up on Sunday I think it was - and then looked again today to see that quite a few of the option prices have dropped (e.g.,paint, twin charge price both down £50, tech pack down £100)

Nice to have the price dropping but I am getting the impression that Tesla's organisational skills leave something to be desired - when I had my test drive on Saturday it was obvious that a couple of the Tesla people were unaware of Friday's changes (one of the people there knew about them) and I wonder if they know about the additional changes today/yesterday. Surely, if you are going to make major changes on a Friday to pricing then you don't change them again the following Tuesday - it's just confusing for customers

TransverseTight

753 posts

150 months

Wednesday 12th November 2014
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I just got an email saying if I was ready to order to do it now as there is an imminent price increase due to currency adjustment. Not sure how much.

I did come across an article that Teslas policy is to sell the cars worldwide at the same price, except for transport, local taxes. Which is basically means we pay nearly the same in £ as the number in $ thanks to import duty, vat on the import duyy and fuel duty on the trucks that gets the cars delivered. Still at least we get the NHS.

oop north

1,604 posts

133 months

Thursday 13th November 2014
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This article here confirms all that you are saying https://transportevolved.com/2014/11/11/live-europ...

From that article I wondered if it was the euro not sterling price that was going to change but a quick f ex search shows £ has gone from $1.68 to $1.58 so roughly 6%. That would be £3500-£4000 price increase - partly reversing the op's observation

Irritating (rubbish of them to keep changing the price every few days) but I see that the deposit is fully refundable at any time. If I get one I want it delivering before 31 March - miss that and the tax deduction is pushed back a year. Wonder if i should order one to fix the price and delivery - salesman Saturday said if order now it would come february

oop north

1,604 posts

133 months

Thursday 13th November 2014
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Hm, Tesla site showing delivery late April at earliest and there is only a two week window in which the deposit is refundable

rossfitz

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501 posts

256 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Down again! £61,780 for base model S when I started this topic, £56,400 now.

I wonder if the low oil prices are having an effect on sales. I've been doing the man maths at £5 a gallon.

Either way, low fuel price short term, business lease drops another £100 a month and a raft of superchargers opening says time to jump in.


CMYKguru

3,017 posts

180 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Notice Romans have one for £89k

rossfitz

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501 posts

256 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Should confirm it was the 85 I was building. By base I mean no options added

rossfitz

Original Poster:

501 posts

256 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Should confirm it was the 85 I was building. By base I mean no options added

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

142 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Price reductions due to lower oil price making electric cars look a bit daft?

Munter

31,321 posts

246 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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MarshPhantom said:
Price reductions due to lower oil price making electric cars look a bit daft?
More likely because of cost savings on parts and distribution due to lower fuel prices and higher volumes than I suspect they anticipated.

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

142 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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rossfitz said:
Either way, low fuel price short term, business lease drops another £100 a month and a raft of superchargers opening says time to jump in.
I've heard the low oil prices could be here for quite a while.

AmitG

3,336 posts

165 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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It will be interesting to see the effect of sustained low oil prices on the sales of alt-fuel vehicles (not just Tesla).