The average price of Used vehicles in Tesla in the United States is located for the first time at the lowest level in its history and is lower than the average of the second second -hand cars, according to the index of the Cargurus website.
The index puts in August the average price of cars used in the US at $ 28,039, an increase of 0.66% compared to the same month of 2024, while that of Tesla vehicles is $ 27,814, an interannual fall of 13.97%.
Cargurusu said that the Pick-Up Cybertruck truck is the vehicle that suffered the most annual depreciation, 30.44%, and that its average price used is $ 83,963.
The controversial model suffered serious quality problems even before its launch: in the presentation in 2019 of the vehicle, whose chassis is made in its entirety in stainless steel, the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, said that his windows were bullet tests. But when he tried to demonstrate his resistance with a steel ball, the window was destroyed at the public’s disappointment.
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Depreciation in Used Vehicles of Tesla joins the fall in sales
All Tesla models lost value in the Cargurus index, even Model 3, the most popular brand, now has an average resale price of $ 23,318, 8.04% less than a year ago.
Model S is 22.61% cheaper, Model X 16.8% and Model and 11.97%.
The depreciation of the value of the used Tesla coincides with the image problems of the company following the involvement of Musk with extreme right policies in the American continent and Europe.
In the second quarter of the year, world sales of Tesla fell by 13% and its net benefits 16%.
To the bad results an exodus of senior managers is added. On Thursday, the departure of Pete Bannon, former Apple executive who was in charge of developing the Tesla Superordinate, which according to Musk should transform the company into a world power into artificial and robotic intelligence.
With EFE information
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