Dealers cash in reselling the Model Y
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In today’s edition… new EV ‘scalpers’, the Model Y hits the leaderboard, and calls for VAT equality grows.
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In the last week…
MODEL Y: Only a few weeks after they arrived on British shores, Tesla’s Model Y has shot to no.4 on the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) list of best-selling cars in February. Closely behind it in no.5 is the Model 3. As noted in previous editions, the way car registrations for Tesla are reported tends to be staggered, meaning they can accumulate a large number of figures, but even so, this is impressive. I suspect soon we’ll all be seeing the Model Y on our streets. I saw my first Y in the ‘wild’ on Chiswick on Sunday.
Y RESELLING: One thing I was surprised to see over the weekend was that 13 Tesla Model Y’s - when I last lo…
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