Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

Sochi said:
Niva?! here in Canada?
that instantly brings memories of my father constantly fixing that thing for months to make one yearly hunting trip to mountains....
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Reminds me of this Simpsons episode

 
It had a hand crank for starting, but I bent the bumper before I could try breaking my thumb.
 
Interesting strategy…if real.

www.torquenews.com

Tesla is Threatening Cybertruck Buyers to Take Delivery By the End of December; Otherwise, the Company Says They Will “Forfeit” Their $2,500 Deposit

To meet Wall Street’s year-end sales forecast, Tesla appears to be resorting to high-pressure tactics to force Cybertruck buyers to take delivery by December 31. The EV maker is threatening buyers to complete the purchase or forfeit the $2,500 deposit.
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EDIT: I don’t blame Tesla 100% for this. Buyers have to hold up their end of the bargain in a contractual relationship. Holding off for whatever reason…not good.
 
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mimico_polak said:
Interesting strategy…if real.

www.torquenews.com

Tesla is Threatening Cybertruck Buyers to Take Delivery By the End of December; Otherwise, the Company Says They Will “Forfeit” Their $2,500 Deposit

To meet Wall Street’s year-end sales forecast, Tesla appears to be resorting to high-pressure tactics to force Cybertruck buyers to take delivery by December 31. The EV maker is threatening buyers to complete the purchase or forfeit the $2,500 deposit.
www.torquenews.com www.torquenews.com

EDIT: I don’t blame Tesla 100% for this. Buyers have to hold up their end of the bargain in a contractual relationship. Holding off for whatever reason…not good.
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Meanwhile, the buyer that can't afford to buy one today is still holding hope that he can afford one tomorrow. It's better for everybody if they take his deposit and cast him free. He may not like it but the $2500 is just a week of depreciation on the CT anyway so he is getting out with minimal pain.

Most of the CT's I have seen lately are wrapped. At the ski hill were a black one and an orange one. No stainless ones.
 
Evoex said:
Makes sense. The $2,500 was not refundable anyways as I recall, it was your deposit to place your build order.
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Reportedly there was nothing in that agreement that had a timeline to force the sale. I don’t doubt a lot of people put down these deposits with the apparent understanding that they wouldn’t be expected to close a deal for many years given how these things were apparently supposed to be back ordered for years and years.

So unless they plan to cease production, forcing people to buy now amounts to nothing more than padding year end sales numbers.

Nonrefundable, fine, they agreed to that. Forcing people to complete the purchase because sales not going so well? I guess the lawyers will sink their teeth into that.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Reportedly there was nothing in that agreement that had a timeline to force the sale. I don’t doubt a lot of people put down these deposits with the apparent understanding that they wouldn’t be expected to close a deal for many years given how these things were apparently supposed to be back ordered for years and years.

So unless they plan to cease production, forcing people to buy now amounts to nothing more than padding year end sales numbers.

Nonrefundable, fine, they agreed to that. Forcing people to complete the purchase because sales not going so well? I guess the lawyers will sink their teeth into that.
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It sounds like this is related to a build-order and nothing to do with paying to get your name on the waiting list. I would be shocked if Tesla lawyers dropped the ball enough to let people place build orders with no ability to enforce a deadline (or maybe Musk fired them all and wrote the contracts himself?). Like every automaker, I assume it allows Tesla to have unlimited time to complete the order and buyer has to take it very shortly after it arrives.
 
I’m sure the story will come out in full eventually. If they are forcing tons of people that had pre-orders that are now sitting unfulfilled to close between now and midnight tomorrow night, it should be all over the Interwebs in short order.
 
Of course…no wonder he’s pushing for those visas. Bastard laid off Americans and replaced them with foreign labour…


Let’s hope this doesn’t carry over to our country as that will effectively kill Canada and people will leave in droves.
 
Slow day here today, went poking around on trader.ca at Ioniq5's, mostly only half seriously as I'm thinking late spring or early summer before we execute on that purchase, but holy heck those things are still stuck will north of the $30's even in the used market.

Might go back to looking at the Bolt market again, my wife has now mentioned that she doesn't actually mind the look of the Bolt EUV vs the original Bolt which she wasn't a fan of.
 
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