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Posted 18 July 2019
Tesla Model 3 standard edition price now reduced from £41,550 including Plug-in grant
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TESLA has slashed the price of the Model 3 in the UK with prices now starting at £37,340 bringing it closer to the £35,000 entry-level target price.
Prices for the car now start at £37,340 (pricing includes VAT and the £3,500 UK Plug-In Car Grant) bringing it closer to the £35,000 entry-level target cost.
Now, the entry-level car is the Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive Standard Range Plus which offers a few more features over the standard car.
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Cash price With estimated fuel saving
Fuel Savings
Electric vehicles are less expensive to fuel than petrol powered vehicles. The average person drives approximately 12,500 miles and spends around £2,200 on petrol per year. In comparison, the cost of electricity to power Model 3 over the same distance is 7 times lower. Over the five year average length of car ownership, that's approximately £9,500 in petrol savings.
We've assumed a fuel economy of 7.4 miles per litre for a comparable petrol powered car. We've also assumed the national average of £0.16 per kilowatt hour for electricity and £1.31 per litre for premium petrol over the next five years.
Electric Vehicle Incentives
Electric cars offer compelling financial incentives for business and personal purchasers. These benefits include the UK Plug-in Car Grant of £3,500, Reduced Employer Class 1A National Insurance Contributions (company cars only), Exemption from London Congestion Charge, London Ultra Low Emission Zone Exemption, Salary sacrifice scheme available to business drivers as well as Significantly Reduced BiK Taxation for Company Car Drivers.
Learn more about electric vehicle incentives.
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Your Model 3
Prices for the car now start at £37,340 (pricing includes VAT and the £3,500 UK Plug-In Car Grant) bringing it closer to the £35,000 entry-level target cost.
Now, the entry-level car is the Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive Standard Range Plus which offers a few more features over the standard car.
*** Updated ***
Cash price With estimated fuel saving
Fuel Savings
Electric vehicles are less expensive to fuel than petrol powered vehicles. The average person drives approximately 12,500 miles and spends around £2,200 on petrol per year. In comparison, the cost of electricity to power Model 3 over the same distance is 7 times lower. Over the five year average length of car ownership, that's approximately £9,500 in petrol savings.
We've assumed a fuel economy of 7.4 miles per litre for a comparable petrol powered car. We've also assumed the national average of £0.16 per kilowatt hour for electricity and £1.31 per litre for premium petrol over the next five years.
Electric Vehicle Incentives
Electric cars offer compelling financial incentives for business and personal purchasers. These benefits include the UK Plug-in Car Grant of £3,500, Reduced Employer Class 1A National Insurance Contributions (company cars only), Exemption from London Congestion Charge, London Ultra Low Emission Zone Exemption, Salary sacrifice scheme available to business drivers as well as Significantly Reduced BiK Taxation for Company Car Drivers.
Learn more about electric vehicle incentives.
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Your Model 3
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sorted byYou must be doing 50,000 miles a year to be saving that much or 30,000 with free electricity.
Still crazy price, you can buy a great ICE car for less than 20k GBP.
That'll buy you enough fuel to fly Emma Thompson and the other luuvie hypocrites around the world many times. (edited)
They might have owned an old 4.2l Jag xj and continuously drive around with bodies in the boot.
You would probably go for online weekly shop
No, but 2 Wrights made an aeroplane.
You should see how much the oil industry is subsidised (cough, crisis in iran)
[Loud Daily Mail noises]
Hope you get a ticket for incorrect parking,.
Was quoted 2 to 3 months.
It is a 40k Tesla not a 250k Ferrari. There will be plenty cars in the local tesco worth at least 40k.
As a parent with two young children below the height of a car’s mirror view, yes I do blame them. A scratch on a car is nowhere near as serious as killing a child. If you want to be precious about a new car, park it on the far side of the car park where nobody else does.
Edit - photo updated to Model 3. I saw my first one in London last week. Looks beautiful in white. (edited)
They dont just knock £9k off the price, that figure is a estimate of the money you'd save from not paying the london congestion charge over 3 years (this is excempt). (edited)
The list price of the base model (white paint, black interior, standard autopilot) is £39,990 (i.e. deliberately just under 40k to avoid the luxury car tax). The figure at the top includes the docs & delivery fee, which is not part of the list price so does not impact the tax.
Trust me, I'm a Model S owner and I've been a Model 3 reservation holder for nearly 3 years and a member of several Tesla forums and groups; VERY FEW US customers got the $35k Model 3, due to Tesla changing their pricing structure on a weekly basis.
By the way, the CURRENT exchange rate is 0.8 USD to the pound, or in your back to front, going on holiday rate, 1.25.
In other words, the impossible to buy $35k Tesla would cost £33,600 including VAT.
Your maths, like you argument, is flawed. (edited)
I would profoundly disagree that incentivising adoption of low carbon transport systems is wrong. You generally need to incentivise early adoption when costs are high to accelerate uptake and reduce costs. This is exactly what we did with offshore wind and it was ridiculously effective in reducing prices in barely a decade.
We have and continue to subside all forms of energy and oil and gas gets heavy tax breaks with aviation fuel getting a direct subsidy.
Generally in order to get a tax break you need to prove a clear benefit to the country as the UK treasury isn't famous for being profligate with tax cuts and incentives. If it exists it's because it works.
Personally I think they should increase it or wave the luxury vehicle tax for electrics as well as we need to increase uptake even faster to hit our carbon targets.
Musk got his maths wrong again in trying to get below the 40k barrier by forgetting to count the delivery charges. Best of 3 maybe?
I believe only Zoe/Renault do this now, to make the up-front cost of the car seem cheaper. Unfortunately it's confused the market quite a lot and probably done more harm than good.
Thanks, that's not too bad.
And my comment is silly unbelievable and ending a comment with son even more unbelievable. (edited)
Well the two wrongs at least create a bit of a level playing field.. if not tipping the scales towards the electric cars (edited)
Just do what every other idiot does with a nice new Tesla or 4x4 in the supermarket...park it in the parent and child spots, or better still the disabled spots.
Right.
But then, where exactly do the materials, especially for for things like Li batteries, come from? Rare earths, metals, plastics, all shipped from around the world using, yep, oil. And those ships are protected by those same WARSHIPS.
And how do countries like ours get these materials so cheaply? By having invested billions of tax payer money into keeping these places destabilised and aligned with corporate interests.
The idea that Tesla is this magic green alternative that will save the world needs to die in a fire once and for all. It's yet another marketing ploy. It's riding on the back of all the unethical, anti-environmental methods used by normal cars, and the fact it relies on electricity produced by coal (especially in its main target base, the US, which more than 60% of its energy is produced using), and is hiding it all under its magical ability to not consume oil.
And that means it can be bankrolled by the government? Why?
It amounts to tax payer money being wasted on those wealthy enough to not need it. We're a country whose poorest demographic is growing in number by the day. A country whose schools and healthcare system is failing. A country where government cuts have led to countless deaths.
And not only is the grant funding those wealthy enough to be able to afford it: it's also funding the astronomically rich manufacturers, who in many cases have inflated their prices before going to market in response to the government grant -- making it literally free money from the government.
There's a lot of gumpf to unpack here, I don't even know where to start. Read the Daily Mail by any chance?
Also, I'd like to see your supporting evidence of these claims. I remember my A-Level History teacher telling me facts without evidence is a story. (edited)
That’s why I park my nice car in the middle of two spaces although generally I don’t have time for supermarket shops. They deliver now
My petrol car is a second quicker to 60 and is £250 a month cheaper on a PCP. Not *quite* there yet Tesla but getting closer....
Electricity is free in Scotland at most of the public charging points. There a London based minicab driver with an e-Niro (the car I have) achieving 340 mile range on a full tank, which even charged at home only costs about £8.
When you take account of the price premium over a comparable petrol or diesel car it’s actually saved you nothing and has probably cost you and the environment more wired.co.uk/art…act
Depends what your comparing it to. I only drive 10000 miles a year in a tesla that is 2p per mile in leccy costs so £200 no road tax when I bought it and I havnt spent a penny on servicing.
Compared to an audi rs6 at 25p per mile £2500
Road tax £550
Servicing over 2 years £1000
So over 2 years I saved £7700
But it depreciated by 40k in 2 years
Let me deconstruct this for you.
Shipping: The materials for anything produced need to be shipped. However, when a battery has been built, it requires no further shipments of dangerous goods to keep it going. There is no risk of an oil spill. These ships also do not pass through the Strait of Hormuz daily so are not under threat from Iranian warships.
Electricity production: I live in Scotland. Last year, Scotland produced enough renewable electricity to power almost 74% of the entire demand for the country source. So it really does depend on the energy mix, but with renewables growing each year, and zero tailpipe emissions, hiding behind that argument is a bit silly. Don't forget the incredible amount of energy which goes into drilling, shipping, refining and shipping again the diesel and petrol for you to burn.
Grants: As mentioned by many posters here, there is an early-adopter penalty for any new technology. If this wasn't incentivised, would anyone ever change? The more people who can afford to buy brand new (which is helped by grants - I bought a brand new e-Niro from Kia using the grant and a 0% loan from the Scottish Government) means the more people will be able to buy more affordable second hand electric cars, which by ALL research conducted, will last a lot longer than traditional internal combustion vehicles.
what bothers me is terrible support network and huge cost of parts if you can even get them which has caused insurance prices to sky rocket for Tesla's in the USA. My Mercedes AMG costs me £420 a year to insure i was quotes £920 for a model 3 yesterday
still i cant think of any other daily driver that will run low 3s 0-60 for 50k bargain at the end of the day