Do dealers usually offer extra incentives as it gets further into the model year ?

Sounds like the northeast gets more rebates than the southeast

Well, if when we are ready to buy in May 2020 and there are no rebates, just the $4500 federal tax incentive, I'll be okay if I can get the price (before taxes and fees) down in the range of $28,000 to $29,000.

Say we got a price of $28,500, the $4500 tax incentive would (later) effectively make that $24,000, and IF we decide to trade in our 2015 Kia Soul which is in very good condition, KBB says we should be able to get close to $10,000 trade in, so that would bring it down to about $14,000 which we should be in a position by May to pay (+ taxes and fees) in the very first month's payment and avoid any ongoing interest charges.

My wife was thinking about keeping the Kia Soul as a 2nd car, but I told her that it might sit unused 99% of the time because we would prefer driving the Prime in EV mode and not using gas, the only time the Kia would get used is once in a very very great while if I needed to run somewhere and my wife had the Prime out at the time which would not happen that often, besides we have a 1999 Astro van (bought new) that we keep for when we need to haul something we can't fit in the car like plywood from Lowes, and I could always use that if I needed to make a quick run if my wife had the Prime out. So I am getting my wife to rethink keeping the Kia but she is still thinking about it (as nice as that Kia Soul is, I see it sitting unused most of the time after we get a Prime)

 

Thanks, I checked cargurus.com in the past but will see about checking them again as it gets closer to when we are ready to buy.

Back around the end of July when doing initial research I tried "Truecar" and one dealer was offering a price of $29,500.00 before add-ons and TTL, which isn't bad though I am trying for at least $28,500.00 or less by the time we are ready to buy in May of 2020.

 

Thanks for the alert, but we likely won't be in a position to buy until about later in March 2020 so we'll just have to hope the Blue Magnetism might still be available then. You would think if you're going to pay that much for a car you should be able to get it in a color you want.