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Per Inside EVs, Cybertruck owners are now allowed by Tesla to trade in their cars for the first time since they hit the market – but they’ll incur a heavy hit in the process.

CarGurus recently showed depreciation rates of up to 45%. Meanwhile, Business Insider talked this past week with two owners who shared firsthand what value Tesla has assigned their Cybertruck. One owner, who bought a $100,000 AWD 2024 model and accumulated 19,623 miles, received a quote for $63,100 (a 37% depreciation); the other purchased a top-of-the-line $127,000 Cyberbeast last September and was shown a quote for $78,200, which would amount to a 38% loss after eight months.

Tesla initially banned owners from reselling the vehicle – a policy typically used to prevent scalping of high-demand vehicles and to maintain brand control. In Tesla’s case, it may also have delayed a wave of trade-ins or resales from owners facing a backlash owing to Elon Musk’s high profile in the Trump administration or frustrated with ongoing quality control issues, which have included runaway gas pedals and falling trim pieces.

Worth noting: trade-in figures are typically lower than private-party sales, and EVs as a category depreciate fast. According to Wired, some brands can lose up to 50% in year one.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Numbers look normal to me, are other cars retaining more percentage of their sale price nowadays?

I remember when all cars lost half their value as trade ins when you drove them off the lot, since that is how economics work.

[–] MBech 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My 5 year old Hyundai was sold to a dealer at 50% loss a year ago. Had around 100,000 km on it.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hell, I have a Toyota about 8 years old and it still hasn't dropped below 50%. I bought it for like $28k and it's at 65k miles, and I keep getting offers for like $15-16k.

It's almost like consumers like vehicles that don't fall apart when you sneeze on them

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

we're in a really weird time now for auto sales, especially used ones. the production dip caused by covid has now passed though the sales market into the resales market. and now we have tariff and other economic speedbumps coming. shit's gonna be weird for a while

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