If this were business-to-business, I'd agree with you. But this isn't. This is MegaCorp to consumer. This is the slippery slope to strings being attached to everything we "own". We need protections from this crap for the same reasons we need Right To Repair laws to protect consumers from...
I loathe scalpers as much as anyone, but can't agree with you here. This is a material item, not tickets to a concert or membership to some club. There's a title and a legal basis of ownership.
Letting companies decide when we do and do not actually have ownership rights is dumb. It will be...
RN11279XXXX, North Carolina, MY owner, received FS email this afternoon.
Can't buy it for this price. Some official guidance would be appreciated for what happens to my place in line once the offer expires.
Same here. I'd take a 5% hit to add 2" of headroom in the rear. I wouldn't shave anything off the front for any range increase. I'm 1.96 meters tall. I need every bit I can get.
Setting us early adopters and VIPs aside for a moment, this is a TOUGH truck. Made for rough environments and WORK. A...
As an electrical engineer, this is also my opinion. Just like Solar Roads, this is an ambition that would cost a lot and yield very little.
Induction chargers are less efficient than physical cables. There is always a loss, and double that for wireless. With cable we either increase the voltage...
It would be very smart of them to start doing this for non-Foundation folks before the holidays. I know that if I were offered this in exchange for a concrete delivery date, I would do it immediately and then proceed to not shut up about it when visiting family over the holidays!
I think that he thinks he was being honest about it. This was a technician, not a sales person.
Agreed that Charlotte's showroom is terrible. It has the ambiance of FEMA shack attached to a chop shop. But the sales staff there are even worse.
They tried to deliver my MY with a dozen scratches...
Oh I agree with you and Greggertruck that it's a ploy. But this technician sure seemed convinced that the heat pump was disabled for this purpose. This was after we chatted for a while about the subtle differences between Model Y years.
It's just weird that HQ wouldn't do what you said by...
Today I was talking to a Tesla Mobile Technician today about the CT on display in the Charlotte showroom.
They said that it can't be driven because the heat pump was disabled by headquarters prior to being delivered. The showroom was supposed to be able to allow certain customers (reservation...
How about a more equitable arrangement where it's all based on sequence and not what you selected 4 years ago for different specs and a different price?
Mind you, this is coming from a very early reservation holder that still wants what they originally specified. One could make a case that...
Are you aware of any tracker for how many trucks have been leaving the factory each week? I'm curious what the cadence was for the last month. That would serve as a good minimum expectation.
A $5-10k reduction for early reservations would be a nice gesture. I honestly expected the dual motor price to increase to $65k. Meet me in the middle.
The total silence about existing reservations is frustrating.
So what's going on with existing reservations?
I selected dual motor 4 years ago and paid the $100. I want the same configuration now.
No need to plunk down another $250 today, right?
Edit:
My existing reservation page is unchanged.