While everybody was busy watching for Tesla to introduce its wall-mounted battery pack for solar-powered houses, the electric automaker quietly began offering used Model S sedans on its website. Now you can get a certified preowned Model S—provided you live in one of the 11 U.S. metropolitan areas currently offering used Teslas.
The Wall Street Journal first discovered the new “Preowned” tab on the Tesla Motors website, which seems to have been in operation for about two weeks now. A quick scroll through the offerings shows that most of the used models on offer are 2013s with the 85-kWh battery pack, with a handful of P85 and P85+ performance variants thrown in. Sadly, no face-stomping P85Ds are on the used roster as of this writing.
Currently, preowned Teslas are available in 11 U.S. markets: Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Florida, Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco/Bay Area, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Each pre-owned Model S comes with a four-year, 50,000-mile limited warranty on top of the remainder of the car’s eight-year, unlimited-mile battery and drivetrain coverage.
Aside from a few outliers—like a 2013 P85 with 50,375 miles in San Francisco and a 2014 Model S P85+ with just 231 miles in New York—most of the 174 examples currently available have between 4000 and 20,000 miles on them. Prices range from a low of $60,850 for a 2013 Model S 60 with 18,565 miles to just over $105,000 for that 231-mile P85+, with most models hovering between $70,000 and $85,000.
Like Tesla’s new-car sales setup, the preowned arm will sell vehicles directly from the manufacturer. Hypothetically, this could allow Tesla to offer lower prices on used Model S sedans compared to independent used car dealerships, and a quick perusal of Autotrader shows a slight buyer’s advantage when dealing directly with Tesla. Of course, with such a small number of used Teslas on the market, it’s hard to say exactly how well the vehicles hold their value.
There’s another wrinkle inherent to Tesla’s direct-sales model: Since the electric carmaker builds each new vehicle to order, it doesn’t have the large storage facilities that traditional automakers use to hold excess inventory. With the first batch of leased Model S sedans about to come off their three-year terms, Tesla could soon be faced with hundreds or even thousands of used vehicles to store. The automaker says used inventory will be stored at facilities around the country, with pre-owned buyers having the option to pick up their vehicles or have them delivered to their homes.
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