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The canonical reply from Elon Musk on profitability is that they hope to profitable on a GAAP basis in 2020. Let's see if external investors hang in there long enough to allow this. ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/as-tesla-g... )

It will be very interesting to see what happens to the used Model S prices now that Tesla took away the buyback guarantee for new cars.

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Compared to shorter range cars I think they are going to do much better. A 90 mile Nelson leaf is ok, a 60 mile neon leaf on the other hand. A 5 year old model S likely has more range than a new leaf and if it bothers you getting a new battery will drastically boost that range.

So, at resale a model S is probably well north of 30k.

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