Tesla Motors has always offered a discount on inventory vehicles of $1 for every mile it has been driven, plus 1 percent for each month the vehicle has aged.
The per-month age discount has now been doubled to 2 percent on inventory vehicles...
I was able to learn of the raised discount rate when my friend Rifleman, from the Tesla Motors Forum, became the lucky recipient of a better-than-expected price on a used loaner car.
His car had a new price of $83,000, but he was able to get a discount of about $18,000, bringing his total purchase price to just under $66,000 (before the $7,500 federal tax credit) on a very well-equipped 2014 Tesla Model S with the 60-kilowatt-hour battery...