Used Tesla Market heats up while the owners sell to protest against Elon Musk

In recent months, Ken Harvey cultivated a budding company for its Honda and Mazda dealers in Northern California: Testlas second -hand sale.

Sometimes Harvey resumes some used teslas during a local car auction and offers them for sale, often at surprisingly affordable prices, thanks to a federal tax credit of $ 4,000 that customers obtain for the purchase of used electric vehicles below $ 25,000. Some consumers who are eligible for state incentives, he said, end up with used model 3 sedans for less than $ 20,000-less than half of the cost of a new one.

“We sold three last week, perhaps 20 since the start of the year,” said Harvey, whose family has four Honda dealers and two Mazda franchises in Alameda County, a suburb of San Francisco where Tesla has a automotive factory.

“We now have three in stock, and two are on the way,” he added. “They will not stay more than a few days.”

Welcome to the back of the counterpoup against Elon Musk, the director general of Tesla and one of President Trump’s closest confidents – a flourishing trade in Teslas used Teslas.

The used company Tesla has increased for years before Mr. Musk and Trump become close, but their bonhomie turbocharged him.