Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

No it's not, it's part of the directive they sign up to when they do remote selling. Any other brand that removes costs like this and goes to remote selling will have the same experience and results.

Entirely fair when you don't know what you're getting into. It gives the customer respite where large companies cut out their own operational costs.

Let's not give companies more power whilst getting more profits aye.. they've enough of that from the amazon's to the teslas

On the plus side your car is worth just shy of 50% of that after 5 years of ownership. Thats very low depreciation for a brand new car.

That will be the deciding factor.

I'm in a lucky position that I'm covered by the distance selling regulations and have 11 days to deal with this. The only deduction mentioned in the order agreement is the return fee. I'm happy to drive to Sandyford so no fee arises.

The car has only done about 200kms and whatever else in the forthcoming days.

I've emailed Tesla and asked for any proposal that they might have given my rights and, respectfully, suggested that we can deal with this in a way other than me returning a car that I don't want to and that they don't want back.

It's not obvious what other fees that they might like to levy and I can't find anything that says that I can't buy another EV (Tesla or otherwise) and not qualify for a SEAI grant again.

But Elon Musk has deeper pockets than I and may wish to play financial chicken with me. We'll see how it goes.

They may decide that anything over 100km is more than needed to assess the car and then seek to apply charges beyond that under the provision to recover up to €900 for the "diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods."

Based on how bad the customer service is in general, I wouldn't expect the process to be easy!

They have no such restriction in the order confirmation.

I have contacted them on the next working day after collecting the car so it's not like I've used the car as a free hire to discover Ireland!

I absolutely agree that it won't be easy but nothing ventured, nothing gained!

Why are you handing it back?

with the RWD and LR now €38k v €50k (correct me if I’m mistaken), and the range of the new RWD looking far closer to the older battery LR than the official numbers suggest; am I right to say the LR now looks like poor value compared to the efficiency of the RWD plus a few public charges if needed?

Even if they did apply a per km charge of 50c per km ( as an example) and I lose €250 over 500kms, it's still a no-brainer.

Yeah I think Tesla are in some ways shooting themselves in the foot with their pricing and how the features in each model are differentiated. You get a lot of car for the RWD version. Dont get me wrong, I really like the look of the Performance. The subtle external mods plus the frankly insane acceleration for that price range but does it warrant the 23k price difference (~60%), hell no. It’ll be interesting to see if many over here go for it because I think once you get past that 60k mark, they might be looking for a different type of motor