Another Gen 3 Prius to Model 3 Move

I have been watching the Model 3 and waiting for the Standard Range Battery (220 miles) since it was announced in 2016, like so many others. I wanted to keep the price in the 40’s and not the 50’s!

Well I pulled the trigger this weekend and ordered a Long Range Battery (310 miles)! The reason being in order to get the full $7500 EV tax credit, which will expire at the end of the year. From what I understand is that when Tesla does announce the availability of the SR battery in Q1-Q2 2019, it will be about a 6 month wait due to the number of reservations in the queue. That will put the EV tax credit at $1875. The difference in price between the LR and SR batteries ($9,000) now becomes only about $3,600 with the difference in tax credits.

I have really enjoyed my 2010 Prius. It has been a trouble-free car and has saved me a lot of money. I now have the same sense of excitement waiting for the Model 3 that I had waiting for the Prius.

I looked at the other EV offerings but none of them compared to the Model 3 in my opinion. I could have saved some money going with one of the others, but like the Prius in its time, the Model 3 is the technology leader.

 

The Estimated Delivery is Nov. 18 through Jan 19. The sales people in Raleigh, NC tell me they are delivering in about 2 months now.

 

I am going with a Silver Metalic. It was between the Silver Metalic or the Midnight Silver Metalic like my Prius.

I really liked the Silver Metalic better on the Model 3.

 

The car that I drove for the test drive was dark blue. Beautiful car!

They had a red with white interior both Model 3 and Model S. Those colors really pop! My school colors are red and white! I almost went with the red but could not do the white interior!

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Oh yes!

 

Thank you. It is exciting!

 

I selected the RWD, 18” Aero Wheels, Premium Black Interior, and EAP. The EAP is just awesome!

If the SR becomes available at the first of the year, I think you are probably right about Q2 Delivery. The way the SR has been a moving target, I just finally decided not to take the chance.

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I really liked the looks of the 19” wheels on the Silver car but I agree with you on the 18” Aeros. It took me a couple of tries on the EAP during my test drive to finally let go of the wheel and trust it with encouragement from my sales guy. I think you are right about a month to understand and trust completely. It is nice to know that they are upgrading and improving EAP all of the time.

Good luck on your car. I will continue to watch and post on here. This may be my last car as I am 67 now and tend to hold on to cars for 10 years or so.

Thank you for caring!

 

Holy Cow! I just received an email saying my tentative delivery date is for 10/2! I really wasn’t expecting it until late October as you said.

 

I like the “Silver Bullet”! I am going to use a Dryer Outlet to start with and see how that goes.

From what I see most on the Tesla forum will tell you that Elon has over-delivered and the car exceeds their expectations!