Riding In Tesla’s New Model Y Suv

[Maurtis]

I would be willing to bet the Elon will start another company which purchases (for now) the Lease-Returned Teslas. It wouldn't take long to operate these new Tesla Taxis to supplant Uber and Lyft. It wouldn't take long to generate enough cash to start purchasing "Taxi Special" Model 3s which Tesla could sell at a premium.

There are probably a bunch of people who would take a Tesla Taxi just for the novelty of having a car pick you up. There are more than 600k Lyft/Uber drivers in the US. It wouldn't be hard to undercut their fees. Maybe a bunch of those drivers would find work as Tesla Taxi Checker/Chargers. They could vacuum, charge, and check over the Tesla Taxis every 300 miles or so.

That idea sounds like a huge win, taking 2-3 year old lease returns and repurposing them as taxis, nothing for the shareholders to complain about and any initial quality control bugs off the line have been shaken out. Nice!

 

[RSchneider]

I can see why this can work.

“Cars are a massively underutilized asset, a fast-depreciating boat anchor around our necks actually, that sit in our driveway most of the time, but cost an arm and a leg every month, whether they're used or not. Car ownership is broken.”

- Hari Iyer (Elio Motors Board Member)