Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

To increase demand, of course. As they bring all factories up to capacity they have more wriggle room to reduce price and they need to bring more people into the Tesla price bracket. They wont sell millions per year at €60k a pop.

But that's a bit different to your narrative. Tell me if Im putting words in your mouth but you seem to be saying that Tesla sales have stalled and that inventory is skyrocketing and hence they had to adjust price to "sell unsold inventory". The suggestion being there are cars piling up somewhere?

Thats clearly not what has happened. The "inventory" being reported arent official figures and more importantly the numbers are tiny in relative terms, not even a ships worth. Of the 2500 reported, 1200 were Model X's which Tesla said were in transit in Q1 as they resumed international deliveries. You cant deduce anything from those numbers.

My guess is that they dropped the price because they see competition heating up, they had increased prices prior to that and had priced themselves too high. They want to bring a whole new set of potential buyers into the net. They are also adjusting per market so a drop in the US or Germany doesn't mean we'll see the same here. Its a myriad of reasons, not "we've a few thousand inventory cars, lets drop the price by 20%".

For "More orders than we have cars" likely just refers to the Boards population - it seems that most boardsies have at least two or three Teslas orders on the go at once to hedge their bets on delivery dates 🙂

It didn't 2021 but who knows what the situation is in 2023. I'll find out in July.

Anyone who has a grant qualifying M3P since the price cut gotten a delivery date range or hidden VIN yet? None for me, so I'm thinking very unlikely to get before the grant change now in July 🤔

Yes i was suprised by this, any basic headlight LED's that I have had in the last couple of cars have had an option in the infotaintment to switch.

In the online manual (Maodel Y anyway) it does state

"Headlights do not require adjustments when temporarily driving into a region where the traffic direction is different (for example, driving in right-hand traffic region, and then driving into a region with left-hand traffic)."

However on the TMC forums for UK there are several threads which appear to indicate that the current "Matrix" headlights do not autoadjust and that you need to manually lower the left headlight a couple of ticks.

I’d be happy to be caught up in the stat code issue, have no hidden vin & generic April - June delivery date. Realistically, a car would need to be allocated on a boat from Shanghai by early next week to make it here before grant reduction date (unless there is a cancelled order). No M3P in inventory for them to fire sale either for me 😂

Did a 305km run the other day from full with roughly a 30 minute stop where I didn’t leave the car for more than 2 mins so energy was being used. Didn’t go over 100 and a lot of it was below that. Was showing 36% left when I got there. Conditions were very good and I was doing it to see what I can get out of the rwd with no overtaking bar a tractor here and there and not going over 100 on the motorway. I could have gone a bit slower on the an and b roads but I think that would be taking the piss.

On the way back I started with 80%, drove the way I normally do (slightly over the speed limit in places like the motorway, some bursts of acceleration) and got back with 5%.

2019 SR+ 55,000km , Tesla offered €22,500 trade in. They really don't want anything to do with the second hand market. No space in sandyford I guess either.

It kinda does make you upgrade your car every 2-3 years like a phone now.

I know that, Tesla never had to do that before, hence the desperation kicking in. Look at the share price since

Tesla used to sell every car they could make, now they have a demand problem. They had no need for conventional advertising. Musk with his noise did an excellent job of guerrilla advertising

I do think your confusing marketing and advertising though

Marketing is finding out what the consumers want so you can producing something that the consumers will want to buy. Advertising is letting the consumers know that your product is out there and why they should buy your product instead of “Brand Y.” I don't think Tesla are gonna do well with that approach

Not bad

Might as well put in 42k otr though

Anyone driving it with these aero wheels uhhh 😭

Fair enough, didn't realise they worked so well, I'd keep them on too for that difference