More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.
More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.
Dude, you’re all over the place. You’re now comparing used car prices to new car prices when previously you were comparing new car prices from prior years to new car prices from today.
If I go out and buy a 2024 Model 3 LR for $47k, how much depreciation have I incurred? Previously you said it’s at least a few thousand dollars because they cost more in 2022, but now you’re saying it only matters what today’s purchase price is compared to what I could sell it for used. You can’t have it both ways.
I am all over the place because I’m trying to show you what matters is where you come from what you paid for it versus how much you can sell that item right now to determine if its appreciating or depreciating.
Slightly more than $7500, as that is the amount of the tax credit. Any buyer that is in the market for a 2024 Model 3 LR has the choice to buy it directly from Tesla for the $47k with all of the trust and benefits (possibly preferential pricing on financing). So you’ll likely have to discount yours by a couple thousand for someone to take the risk you didn’t do something to the car in the short time you’ve owned it.
So my estimated final answer to your scenario is: Your 2024 Model 3 LR is now worth 37,500.
I’m not seeing where I said that. Can you link/quote my words where you’re seeing that?
Okay I see, you’re getting stuck on a minor point for this part.
In economics there’s a concept call substitution. Lets say you have THE ONLY Model 3 LR ever made. Lets also assume the tax credit never existed because that just makes this even more complicated (and doesn’t change the outcome). If someone wants a Model 3 LR they have no choice but to buy it from you. If they only wanted a Model 3 LR, and no other car would suit them, then there would be zero substitution options open to them. They’d have to pay you what you’re asking regardless of how high or low that price was.
However with Tesla Model 3 LR there are lots of options for substitution. If they simply wanted a Tesla, and you had the only Tesla Model 3 LR ever made, they would laugh at you if you asked for the $52k you paid in 2022. They would happily buy a 2024 Model Y for less money directly from Tesla. So worse for you in this scenario, you don’t have the only Tesla Model 3 LR ever made, so if your theoretical buyer wanted a Tesla Model 3 LR, they could put your 2022 (assuming yours had zero miles) where you’re wanting to get your full $52k back next to a 2024 which only costs $47k from Tesla.
The buyer will probably choose the 2024 for $5k less than your 2022. They see no value in paying an extra $5k for your 2022 because they are substituting a 2024 instead. So how much would you have to discount your 2022 before the buyer will buy yours over the 2024? $5k? No. That puts your 2022 and Tesla’s 2024 at the exact same price. So you’ll have to go even lower because the buyer can get, as an example, the Highline refresh on the 2024 which the 2022 hasn’t. So you’d probably need to knock another couple thousand off at least to make your 2022 be priced at $45k to be below the 2024 at $47k.
Since you paid $52k for the Model 3 in 2022, and you’ve now sold it for $45k, you had depreciation of of $7k. Again this scenario excludes all tax credit because it just complicates the explanation and doesn’t change the outcome that the 2022 has deprecated.
What? I’m talking about buying it from Tesla. You pay them $47k and then at the end of the year receive a $7500 credit making your purchase price $39,500. I’m not referring to buying a used car at a new car’s price.
Right here in your initial comment:
What does this have to do with depreciation on EVs versus depreciation on any other vehicle? 1 of 1 cars are so rare that they’re completely irrelevant when talking about the other 250 million cars on the road in the US. Again, you’re comparing the MSRP of the 2022 model year versus the MSRP of the 2024 model year to claim depreciation while also ignoring my point above about the 2019 model year being much cheaper than both. While it is true that someone who paid more for the same car isn’t going to get as much out of it on the used market, this is in no way unique to Tesla, EVs, or any car on the market.
The whole basis of this argument was someone claiming that EVs suffer from ‘extra’ depreciation and I was simply asking for some real numbers to back that claim up. All of your number mirror that of any other car on the road because a car with wear and tear on it isn’t as valuable as one without (the very definition I quoted above).