Woke up at 5AM with a serious case of Teslainsomnia this morning. Got a call two days ago that our S showed up in Bellevue, unannounced with a shipment of cars. It is right within our delivery window but no 10 day notice. Luckily we have been preparing. We got out from under the sinking residual value ship that was our Leaf purchase 8 days ago, converted to a 2 year Lease, wiped out the loan with the trade in, picked up a sweet deal on a close out 2012, the same model leaf but in Silver at the SL trim level, all with no money out of pocket accept to pay to move the vanity tags over, a small miracle compared to the $22.5K of debt we were saddled with. On Tuesday, after detailing the crap out of our hybrid highlnader, we got an above KBB offer from a woman in Idaho off of craig's list. The deal was papered by her relatives here in Edmonds, rather unconventional but it all worked out. Walked the cashier's check into BECU's reguional branch where they can release holds instantly if they can verify funds... dowm payment for the S secured! Two days ago applied for financing through Bank of America (never had a good thing to say about BofA until now) on line, within an hour we were approved, within another hour an agent was assigned to our account, called us and began one of the most heroic attempts to get us final papers and rush cut us a check and get it to Fed EX with hours to spare yesterday afternoon for a Saturday delivery (they don't usually pay the extra for the saturday delivery but made an exception for us!). So, here we are, it's too early Saturday morning, I'm wide awake, the check is on route via plane as we speak... "when all through the house not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse", It's quite possible I'm more excited than I was on Christmas morning when I was a kid and with all the things that have come together to make this happen, it's practically a miracle, I almost believe in Santa again! :~)
The car: Performance 85kWh, Metallic grey, grey leather interior, heated seats, carbon fiber accents, silver 21" rotary blade rims, panoramic sun roof, 550 W sound upgrade, tech package, twin chargers, child seats and High Powered Wall Charger for medium fast charging (62 miles an hour!) reserved 7/4/2012, reservation number #10,072, Vin 4605, delivery 2/9/13!
We are leaving the kids with a sitter for the pick up and I don't know when we'll be coming back, LOL!
We are feeling very happy that we found a way to get out from under our Leaf, it made it possible to stay with the Leaf as a Lease and complete the transition to a 100% net solar pure EV home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!