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Tesla Is Starting a Certified Preowned Program
cartechboy writes Most luxury automakers have a Certified Previously Owned (CPO) program. Tesla isn't like a normal luxury automakers, in fact, it's not really like any automaker out there. It doesn't have franchises and it sells its own vehicles through its network of galleries. Now, it plans to create its own CPO program. There are a great deal of Model S sedans out there currently under lease contracts. When those cars are ready to come back, Tesla has guaranteed that it will purchase them for a figure that falls somewhere between 43 and 50 percent of the original purchase price. This is exactly how Tesla's going to create its CPO fleet. Tesla seems to do everything in an unconventional manner, so we'll have to see if its CPO program behaves like every other automaker's, or if it's different somehow as well.
On top of that, electric cars don't need the sort of fluids monitoring and maintenance that can make lease cars with gas engines undesirable; there's no, "don't change the oil for 50,000 miles, change it right before turning it back in" crap.
Obviously regular wear items like interior parts, tires/suspension/alignment, and such will still be the same, but I'm used to driving cars up close to 200,000 miles anyway, so that's not such a big deal.
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