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10-18-2012, 12:24 PM
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One would never mistake a shiny new tech-filled Tesla Motors (http://www.autoblog.com/tesla/) dealership for a used-car lot, but with several years worth of Teslas already on the road, that notion is about to get very real. Those retreads will be pretty rarified, though.
The California-based electric-vehicle maker is starting a buyback program in which owners of the company's first car, the Roadster (http://www.autoblog.com/tesla/roadster), can trade it in for credit against the purchase of a Model S (http://www.autoblog.com/tesla/model+s/) sedan, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Tesla made about 2,500 Roadsters, with chassis bits provided by Lotus, between 2008 and 2011 (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/16/this-is-the-last-tesla-roadster/). The company estimates that it could sell Roadsters for anywhere from about $73,000 for a four-year-old model to about $93,000 for a 2010 model with low miles. Owners paid upwards of $109,000 when they were new.
Either way, owners would get a credit against the purchase of a Model S, which started production earlier this year. The newer cars sell for anywhere between about $50,000 and $100,0000, after federal tax credits.Tesla will take Roadster trade-ins for Model S (http://green.autoblog.com/2012/10/18/tesla-will-take-roadster-trade-ins-for-model-s/) originally appeared on Autoblog Green (http://green.autoblog.com) on Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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One would never mistake a shiny new tech-filled Tesla Motors (http://www.autoblog.com/tesla/) dealership for a used-car lot, but with several years worth of Teslas already on the road, that notion is about to get very real. Those retreads will be pretty rarified, though.
The California-based electric-vehicle maker is starting a buyback program in which owners of the company's first car, the Roadster (http://www.autoblog.com/tesla/roadster), can trade it in for credit against the purchase of a Model S (http://www.autoblog.com/tesla/model+s/) sedan, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Tesla made about 2,500 Roadsters, with chassis bits provided by Lotus, between 2008 and 2011 (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/16/this-is-the-last-tesla-roadster/). The company estimates that it could sell Roadsters for anywhere from about $73,000 for a four-year-old model to about $93,000 for a 2010 model with low miles. Owners paid upwards of $109,000 when they were new.
Either way, owners would get a credit against the purchase of a Model S, which started production earlier this year. The newer cars sell for anywhere between about $50,000 and $100,0000, after federal tax credits.Tesla will take Roadster trade-ins for Model S (http://green.autoblog.com/2012/10/18/tesla-will-take-roadster-trade-ins-for-model-s/) originally appeared on Autoblog Green (http://green.autoblog.com) on Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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