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In this brief video I’m going to show you how to effectively get 33% off a new Tesla Model Y in May 2024 and no I’m not including gas savings.
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Tesla is currently offering 0.99% APR financing on new Model Y’s through May 31, 2024. That’s almost free money. You can also extend the loan term to 5 years.
Using round numbers,
- The base long range rear wheel drive model is $45,000.
- It qualifies for a federal EV tax credit of $7,500 deducted from the purchase price, dropping it to $37,500.
- Let’s assume a down payment of $3,500, which is about 9%, and a loan of $34,000.
- The loan would end up costing about $1,000 in interest over 5 years for a total loan cost of $35,000.
- Suppose I took the $34,000 I would have paid cash for the car and put it in a high-yield savings account currently paying 5% APY.
- Let’s also assume you’re making the monthly car payment of about $581 from your earned income so you don’t have to dip into the savings at all.
- 5% is pretty juicy right now. Let’s be pessimistic and say rates might drop half a percent each year over the next 5 years.
- The $34,000 in the savings account earns me about $7,500 in interest over 5 years, growing to about $41,500, disregarding taxes.
The salient takeaway here is not that it’s then suddenly a cheap car (it’s not) or even that you should buy one, but rather that, via a tax credit and some simple, virtually riskless interest rate arbitrage, you’ve effectively reduced the initial price by about 33%.
This is also why we say it makes little sense to pay off your mortgage early if you’ve got a low rate like 2-3%.
This does again ignore taxes on earned interest, which is going to be highly personal, but it also ignores gas savings, so those probably easily cancel out.
Does this financing offer have you considering buying a new Tesla Model Y in 2024?
Read the blog post here: https://www.optimizedportfolio.com/tesla-promo/
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