patrick_y
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Gasoline is unfortunately a volatile commodity...
Gasoline, coming from raw materials in turbulent countries, is unfortunately a very volatile commodity. Furthermore, demand is completely inelastic, as humans need a lot of it, it spoils/goes bad and most don't have the means to store it as it requires special handling to transport and store. The buying public is different too; gasoline is bought by consumers and businesses. But generally most buyers buy at the retail level (due to government regulation) and do not negotiate much on the price.
Paint on the other hand, there is some elasticity in demand. If paint prices shoot up, consumer demand is somewhat elastic. Business demand for paint may be less elastic, but since business buyers are so large they can negotiate.
Trust me, if Mercedes Benz raised the price of paint twice in a six week period, I'd be ticked too.
Tesla Raises Price For Paint, Twice in Two Months
Tesla Model 3 vehicles when first launched in 2017, it came with the following paint options: Launch Date till June 2018 1. Black: $0 2. Midnight Silver Metallic: $1000 3. Deep Blue Metallic: $1000 4. Silver Metallic: $1000 5. Pearl White Multicoat Metall...
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Tesla is going through certain changes and has to adjust. It's obvious things didn't go as planned and they have to do something. Do you want the prices to remain the same, Tesla getting in trouble and you saying goodbye to your investments while they plu...
I hope the market will bear the extra $500 to $1000...
I hope the market will bear it, I have far more to lose in my investment than the $500-$1000 in my own car. The whole reason why I put the fact that I'm a stockholder in the company is to say that I benefit from Tesla making more money. And I support Tesl...
I'm with you all the way Patrick - it's outrageous and one of the things that infuriates me about car buying
Things like this really aggravate me. OK, for Henry Ford BLACK can be "the only color" but this is now 100 model years later, and with Tesla even WHITE costs money. That irritated me when I started to spec out a Model 3 online. And with some exception for...
Now that's unethical, that's even worse than Tesla's silly move, Tesla was silly, your dealership was just unethical.
I hate it when they do that. I also hate it when contractors do that. I feel that I need to audit every contractor these days to make sure that they're not skimping in materials and that they're not going to do some last minute price inflation after we al...
Well, NEED is a word rarely used by Watch collectors ...
And prohibited among car collectors. I just want a newer car or two, as my most current one is the 2006 Insight with 110,000 miles. And my lowest mileage one is the 1971 Lotus with 43,000. Neither is a good car for a cross-country trip, or for sending a w...
Will definitely consider BMW i3 with Range Extender!
The electric range is only around 72 miles. They say that if you drive on the highway at speed, the range can drop to the low 60 miles! Fortunately, the car can charge from 7% range to 80% range at a DC Fast Charger in about 22 minutes, assuming the DC fa...
It’s not funky but the Volt is such much more practical than most other electric / hybrids
at least its fuel tank is bigger than the i3’s silly Big Gulp cup!
True, but it's also FWD.
And the BMW i3 is beautifully made. The panels line up perfectly. The car is beautifully made. And the Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic construction is definitely an exotic touch. Overall, it's a small car, that's built with more precision than an S-Class ...
Maybe it's due to the increase in cost
Of resin prices over the last 18 months. I'm familiar with the rates and they have increased substantially even in the last 6 months. But based on volume used of resin and the sqm it's a bit disproportionate. Cheers S
Paint resin/materials has gone up that much?
Kind of hard to believe that they'd need to change the price twice, only six weeks apart from one another. Other car companies haven't raised their paint prices. The price of cobalt hasn't even gone up that much. And that car uses a lot of expensive, mine...
Have you ever thought about gas prices?
I realize that the majority have accepted those price fluctuations, but that is much worse than some paint price increase. It is really funny to me how people react emotionally to Tesla. Why is that? Because they are the game changer?
Gasoline is unfortunately a volatile commodity...
Gasoline, coming from raw materials in turbulent countries, is unfortunately a very volatile commodity. Furthermore, demand is completely inelastic, as humans need a lot of it, it spoils/goes bad and most don't have the means to store it as it requires sp...