Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

When we ordered, I wanted black and she wanted white so we compromised and got white!!!

40k trade in for a SR+ 2020, 22,000kms...

That's not...terrible?

yeah, thinking now, the Freemont SR+'s will take a big depreciation hit thanks to the newer versions with all the upgrades as well as now bigger batteries....

I was actually expecting less. When I bought the car 2 years ago the amount they offered for my Ioniq was laughable!

I guess with a Tesla they resell themselves at a premium.

I'm only half interested in trading up if the gap between this and LR is not too much.

Hi all

Looking for your opinion.

Model 3 LR in inventory Tesla gave assigned to my account. Which is great but it's a 2021 model

Would you wait for a 2022 model with the possibility of getting the MCU3 among other small updates.

Im in no panic for the car so can wait till march if needed

No doubt there'll also be update/upgrades in June also so could wait till then.... On the flip side of that you may see more bumps in price?

Tesla numbers are in from stats.beepbeep.ie and make interesting reading.

878 cars M3's registered in 2021 compared to 724 in 2021 an increase of 18.5%.

In that time the overall EV market has jumped 115% with 8646 EV registered in 2021 compared to 4013 in 2020. This shows there is a market there but this maybe not a priority market for Tesla.

If you look at the UK market Tesla was the 2nd best selling car overall 34,783 (increase of 40%) where as in Ireland Tesla wasn't even the best selling EV and 39th on the list overall.

If you look at this in regards population 67 million Vs 5 million and registrations if Ireland was on a par with the UK we would have 2434 registrations/deliveries when we had 878 (35% of that). Irish and UK adoption rate % have been very similar in the last year's jumped a lot in UK but this driven by Tesla, no doubt would have been the same here with a better supply

In my view the reason for this is Tesla focusing on UK for RHD due the energy crisis (in UK) and also Brexit has impacted Ireland here as instead of cars being dropped in Southampton and transported their taken to Zeebrugge and logistics are more difficult. Easier for them just to offload RHD's for UK market.

Poor form from Tesla in my view bit part acknowledgment of Irish market. Anyways there's the stats looked at from my side but also be aware I have an order in since last August and gotten diddly squat.

On point a I will agree with you there if there there is a massive delivery of vehicles In march for which I wouldn't hold my breath.

In the last two years the delivery in march Feb deliveries have been pretty much the same the only difference in registrations between 2020 2021 was a delivery of 200 cars in June/July time frame when there was 60 plus in 2020. Sept and December deliveries were pretty much the same.

On point b the UK government have cut grants for EVs.

I don't think salary sacrifice would be a big incentive here pretty much the same as leasing never caught on really here.

In Ireland there are grants an no road that and VRT rebates there are different incentives.

There is a clear demand for EV's here which you can see in waiting list but also the fact EV sales have jumped by 115% yet Tesla sales in Ireland only by 18%. Ireland is not being serviced to the extent the UK is.

look at Hyundai then had a direct shipment to cork in Dec of 400 + Ev's and another shipment due mid Jan so could be registering a similar amount of EV's in Jan as Tesla did in the whole of 2021.

The numberd don't lie 2nd most popular Car in the UK in 2021 39th in Ireland. UK and Ireland buying patterns are similar thats a massive difference and that in my view is down to Tesla and not lack of demand.

That's not true, if you want an SR you can't LR you can, I'll be waiting 7 months for a color I ordered (SR).

Yet seen on forums people in UK who ordered the same spec in Dec who were expecting it in march got it delivered in Dec. The numbers don't lie. Registrations in Ireland have shown a paltry increase in 2 years compared to other countries, you rarely if at all see SR's coming up in inventory.

But not worried now I've an ioniq 5 (premium plus higher price point than M3 Sr) on the way now, good for you guys also as Tesla will stay a niche car In Ireland if they don't change something, the UK import market won't facilitate much re M3's in the future either.

What are you referencing with regards to the point Tesla are running out of buyers here.

(Not sure how to only quote the part of your comment regarding Tesla running out of buyers, sorry)

my point is simply that now that the early adopters and Tesla guys have their cars, you’re replying on Joe public for sales, and Joe public is going to find it hard to justify a €52-68k 4-door sedan, and equally Joe public isn’t a car guy and doesn’t care if his car is a Tesla or not, and probably doesn’t care about the cars propulsion system either.

the Tesla is a €52k hype car, but Joe public isn’t a hype kinda guy :)

joe public spends €29k on a Focus if he wants a 4-door saloon

looking At the beepbeep data, the Tesla is also an overwhelmingly ‘Dublin’ car, with 65% of Tesla sales, and a further 15% across the commuter counties of Wicklow, Meath and Kildare.

for comparison, Dublin accounts for 42% of non-Tesla EVs, almost in line with the population proportion you’d expect, allowing for EVs not suiting a lot of rural areas.

even a big commuter county like Louth, with two of the largest towns in the country, and we’ll inside the range of most EVs, registered just 8 teslas all year. 8.

etronics (including saloons), EV6's, ioniq 5's have full order books on similar price range so there is an appetite from Joe public ( been checking this in dealers).

Also bear in mind that Joe public hasn't been able to buy a car because of the chip crisis in the last two year

There has been a very strong jobs market and people unable to spend money on houses (labour shortage) or go on holidays has lead to savings level as being 4 times the normal level in 2021 (cso figures) so there is a market there it's clear it's not being serviced.

Can you point to anything that shows there no market other that hearsay? Also doesn't care about propulsion there has been 115% increase in EV's and even more in hybrid and PHEV.

tesla was the future of EVs, but got a hair under 10% of the Irish EV market last year - that’s got to be low versus most other markets?

im not saying there’s no market, of course there is, I’m saying the Tesla numbers will suffer that post-launch-year dip in sales just like any other new model from any other manufacturer - and bear in mind Tesla only sell 1 volume model in Ireland at this moment in time.

They’re unlikely to make up long term sales numbers from the MY here either, if the action on the boardsie MY thread is anything to go by, versus the thousands of messages on the M3 thread(s), tracking marine traffic for 6 months in advance of deliveries :)

all that m3 hype delivered about 1,400 cars over 2 years. The Y won’t come close, not a chance, (and the 3 was announced 6 years ago next month, so the 3 is needed for their volume for many years to come)