Discussion on this WSJ article

[afadeev]

As for crazy yes, Unfortunately, if you wish to purchase your Tesla at end of lease, it's not been possible for 3 and Y. It became impossible for any leases delivered on or after April 15, 2022 (see https://www.tesla.com/support/leasing/lease-end-options).

No reason to feel bad about that - Teslas depreciate so fast, that any residual buy-out values would be grossly above market value of the used vehicle in 2-3 years.
As a direct result of Tesla's new vehicle price manipulation and debasement, the cost of owning and bearing depreciation on a Tesla has increased far above that of comparable cars. It's just not worth it anymore.
Lease a Tesla.
Let Tesla eat the depreciation cost, accelerated by its own pricing practices.
Then ditch it, and lease another one.

Or buy/lease another EV from another OEM. Buyers choice.
The market is flooded with EVs right now. It's a buyers' market.

HTH,
a

 

[exfed2001]

The wall street journal is paywalled content.

You cant copy the contents of the article and paste it here, and any links to it are going to require people to get past the paywall. So, you are going to have to summarize the article, in your own words, to discuss it here.

Try this:

https://archive.ph/tSALQ

 

[Jonez]

Hmmm sentiments on this thread are interesting. I think I might be able to call Bingo! with buzz word Bingo. Most of these generalizations including those from the WSJ are just folks picking words out of their butt. The number one selling car in the world dipped in deliveries. Is the market now saturated for EV's? Toyota sold 500K cars in the first quarter Telsa 386K all EV's no trucks, and no cars under 30K Number 1 selling car in the US Toyota Corolla $25K.

Cost matters and that is why you will continue to see Telsa reducing what they can with the M3 or introduce a lower cost EV. Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage. Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. So ya if they can remove a stalk on the steering wheel and save $25 a car, that is $96M they can invest in technology that lowers manufacturing cost which can drive down prices.

How to gauge what Elon says affects Tesla sales? Is it a technical speech, or comment, Do so called <insert bigoted group identifier here> buy or not buy because of Elon? hmmmm

 

[fronesis]

Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage.

That is absolutely not Elon Musk's current mission. It's just not. And Musk is not just the CEO of Tesla, he is a CEO with more power than almost any other CEO of any other company – so the fact that it's not his mission means it's not Tesla's mission.

A $25k Model 2, a greatly expanding supercharger network – these things would help Tesla reach the goal described above.

Massive and incoherent layoffs, and the ethereal promise of Robotaxis – these things, Musk thinks, will juice the stock price. And that seems to be Musk's current goal.