Model 3 loan arranged through tesla
Hopefully they will have a white on black Model 3 in 2 years when my i3 lease is up. The $35k Tesla Model 3 seems like a good alternative, but I will NEVER get a black car ever again. We're moving on.Ĭongrats! I'm pleased with my current 2018 i3 (my 2nd), but I don't see anything from BMW in the future to fit my budget as an EV commuter. Sadly, you stopped investing into EVs, and had nothing new to offer seven years after the i3 launch. Thank you BMW for introducing us to the EV universe. We'll see how it does on track later this year. Handles just about as well as my BMW M3, but a bit heavier, yet faster. Proper performance suspension, track mode TC, performance tires (Michelin Pilot Sport 4S). Proper 4-door sedan with enough space for two adults to sit in comfort in the back. Thus, after two 24 month i3 lease cycles, we ordered a black/black TM3P to replace it. We test drove a bunch of EV options, and only Leaf SL and Model 3 were going to fit into the "small fun car" category that i3 currently occupies in our garage.Īnd then Musk dropped the prices for TM3s by ~$6K all around, and it was game over. MB and VW group offerings are not much better. Self Driving Cars: Unfortunately, Safer is Not Saf.My i3 is coming off lease shortly, and given lack of any meaningful investment into i-platform BMW, my next EV wont be made in Germany.1 Million EVs on US Roads Will Happen This Year!.Tesla Roadster Rocket Thrusters Explained By Tesla.Tesla Model 3 Matte Black Center Console Wrap.Tesla Model 3 Dual Motor Ordered - Tax Credit Race.If you're persuasive, I may change my order. Your choices may be different, but consider this food for thought and if you disagree with my selections, leave me a comment. Here are the screenshots and my rationale. If the events happen out of order, I'll receive half (or less) of the tax incentive. However, there's nothing that I can do to enforce this order of events, so it's a race condition. In this case, for the car, I want the order of events to be 1) Delivery 2) New Year's Day 2019. When you have a bug in your code where things did not occur in the order that you expected, it could be because you have a race condition.
Instead, if you execute tasks in parallel, then you include some sort of barrier to guarantee that all the needed tasks are complete before going on to other work that may depend on the results of these parallel tasks. In computer science, you generally do things in series, one after the other, in the order you want them done. This creates a race condition between the reduction of the incentive on January 1st, 2019 and the delivery of the car. This gives Tesla some wiggle room to push the delivery date around as warranted by production or force majeure. It is called tilde and, in this use, it means "about" or "approximately". It does say "3 to 5", so it could be as short as 3 months, but the scariest part of that "~3 to 5 months" quote is the little squiggly character in the front. That is cutting it close to the end of the year. With a June 26th order date, 5 months later is November 26th. However, Tesla currently says the dual motor delivery estimate is "~3 to 5 months" and there is no sign that other interior colors (other than black and white) will be added soon. In addition to waiting for dual motor, I had been considering waiting for the cream interior option too.
Race Condition (not the kind you find at the track) So, if you are in the US and want the full incentive, you need to take delivery (not just place the order) this year. This would result in the full $7500 incentive lasting through the end of the year. If my estimations are correct, then Tesla will deliver their 200,000th US car in early July, just a couple of weeks from now. The incentive is reduced 3 to 6 months after a manufacturer sells 200,000 cars in the US.
I'll explain my reasoning below. If I regret passing on the wheels or the self-driving, we can upgrade these later.īelow, I'll walk through the screenshots of the order process but first, let's talk about the US Federal EV Tax Incentive. We passed on the Performance option, wheel/tire upgrades, and we passed on the Full Self-Driving option. We ordered a blue, long range, premium interior, with Enhanced AutoPilot. On June 26th, 2018, Tesla opened up my ability to order a Dual Motor Model 3 and that's exactly what I did.