Mrs Cad has been using my second car for a few years now. You know, the Envoy that is about to blow up any minute. She wanted a Tesla for a while. The no-gas option works well for us since we have a garage and she can charge while at work in a secure lot. She originally wanted a 3 but I said she should test drive both a 3 and the Y. Good call on my part as the 3 is a little cramped but the Y works well. Plus as an SUV it will eventually replace the Envoy. The charcoal grey, red and blue are all nice colors. If my car I’d choose the blue, but she chose the grey, err… Midnight Silver Metallic. All black interior with the wood. Standard wheels and seating (5 in two rows) and it only comes in AWD so for her perfect in Colorado winters. Estimated delivery Feb to May 2023.
The payment is really high ($950 / month for 6 years) but the trade off is no gas which right now saves $500 / month. Plus she needed a new car so let’s say $45,000 on that car and now going Tesla doesn’t seem that expensive especially considering it is new enough that we get the tax rebate. Is that right? That the limit on tax rebates given out resets with each new model or is it on ALL of a manufacturer’s line?
Welcome to the club. :cheers:
That wait queue keeps getting longer. We order ours in Oct 2021 and received in Dec 2021. And we thought that was a long wait! Tesla is continuously making upgrades, so the only disadvantage is exercising your patience.
You can get a specific answer for your model here: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/taxevb.shtml
My recollection is the rebate has expired for all of Tesla at this point. We bought a Kia Niro EV earlier this year that we’re really happy with (which still gets the rebate).
And here’s the worst part of the wait rather than driving it off Saturday. It seems the Envoy blew up today. I don’t have the details but I think we are a one-car family until the Tesla comes in.
If Biden and the Dems care about green energy, maybe they will change it so ALL electric cars get the rebate. One can hope.
I noticed the Y is not on that list though.
Congrats. We bought our Y just under a year ago. The federal tax credits for buying a Tesla have long since expired, but look to make sure you are getting everything local that’s available. We got a incentive payment from the state as well as cash from the electric utility. It totaled a couple thousand bucks as I recall.
Is it newer than the entirety-of-Tesla expiry date? That might be the reason they don’t bother to list it. From the site:
Tesla vehicles purchased after 12/31/2019 are not eligible for these tax credits.
Wow, a year wait, I guess that’s why used Teslas are selling for more than new ones right now. It will be worth it, and if there’s are really compelling reason to change your mind, you’re only down $250, and in the meantime you’ve locked in the current price.
As stated, the old federal rebate has finished for all Teslas, but if you’re lucky a new one will pass. Colorado still has the state rebate, so that’s something to look forward to on your 2023 taxes.
Depending on where you are in the state, Xcel has some rebates and assistance for installing a home charger. There are also federal (and maybe state) tax incentives for that as well. You should investigate the expiration date on any offers that apply to you so you know if you should install early.
As you probably saw, Tesla recently made the cash grab of not including a mobile charger with the car, so it is worth thinking ahead about your charging setup regardless of any incentive deadlines.
That’s a crappy thing to do. Although ours is used very rarely. It’s 110 (level 1) so it’s pretty useless. EXCEPT for when we park at the airport parking and plug into a regular outlet. Taking three days to fill up isn’t an issue.
People so soon forget that the mobile charger used to come with both a 14-50 adapter to connect to a 220 50-amp outlet for level 2 charging, and the regular 5-15 level 1 adapter. Now it’s $45 for each additional 220 volt adapter for the mobile charger. It will still do up to 40 amps, so it can max out a 50 amp outlet, and is all you need if you just install a 220 outlet for charging.
Anyway, the mobile charger is the only thing I’ve ever used to charge with at home. I couldn’t justify spending $400+ on a charging box when all I needed came with the car.
At this point, with a year backlog, Tesla could sell their cars with windshields as an after sale accessory to boost profits. Don’t tweet that though, because I don’t want to give Musk any ideas.
We’ve had our Model Y for just about a year now, and I just returned my Chevy Bolt lease. 90 percent of our charging was using the mobile 110v connector at home. Never had any trouble keeping charged as long as we made sure one car or the other was always charging when home.
My city heavily subsidizes installation of Level-2 chargers, so it was a no-brainer for us to get one. Check your own municipality or electric company.
I know the car market is insane right now but that’s nucking futz. Not looking at new cars, is this in line w/ other manufacturers or is Tesla a lot longer than others?
Tesla’s particularly bad across the board right now, but from what I’m seeing in some enthusiast groups I participate in, if you want to order one of the higher spec BMWs or Porsches with your preferred option right now, you’d be looking at months to possibly a year.
We talked to the salesman about that. Texas’ factory is not up yet and there is still a chip shortage so Feb to May 2023 seems like the worst case scenario.
I think I overheard a sparrow in a tree over the grocery parking lot saying that he, too, had put a deposit down on a Tesla.
That was in the reconcilliation bill. The one that Joe Manchin kept screwing with until everyone figured out that he was never going to vote for it no matter what was in it.
With the run up in gas prices, all EVs suddenly got more interest. Teslas are the best of the bunch, so they got more interest. But I expect wait times for all EVs are bad right now.
I’m not sure the chip shortage is an issue with Teslas, but the battery is an issue. They’re moving to a larger cell for the Y built at Austin and having some production problems. I know they’ve delivered some from the Austin factory, but they were to employees and had a somewhat reduced battery size, just so they could make more of them.That was about three weeks ago and I haven’t heard anything since. At a guess, they’re now delivering to customers from Austin but having a very slow rampup.
How are the insurance rates for one of those?
small nitpick, but you also need to figure in the cost of the electricity to charge the car (unless that is already accounted for in the $500?). Where I live, I am paying about 5 cents per km for the electric charge, compared to about 14 cents for a similar sized ICE car.
I just got an e-mail come-on for the new BMW i7 all-electric sedan. Only $119,300 and I can become one of the “luminaries” the car is aimed at, which will allow me to attract very tall women dressed in orange outfits and spike heels. Not to mention the luxury of having an illuminated kidney grille and Sky Lounge LED roof.
Sounds like a bargain!
If only I was a luminary. 