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Originally Posted by necdb3
Being devils advocate here. Wasn't the big 3 also guilty of the same thing? For years they sold trucks at high prices, then at the end of they model year, offer $10,11,12,000 rebates on their trucks. They "overcharged" their customers for 9 months, then offer huge discounts. They didn't have to build a huge overage of trucks. The real value of those american trucks were the discounted price.
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A 10,000+ rebate has definitely happened at year end before by the big 3 when the new models with new features/styling came out.
But this was a $10,000+ rebate in January that escalated to a $30 - 41,000 discount by year end.
Tesla doesn't change their styling from year to year. A 2024 Model S or X is still the same looking vehicle as the first one's that rolled down the production line.
As to battery pricing coming down (Stuart's post), that doesn't account for a $30 - 40,000 price drop in 9 months. It might account hundreds or maybe a couple thousand dollars, but that's about it.