It’s just over a month since Tesla cut prices by up to £8000, officially because it had sourced better deals with suppliers, unofficially because it had for the first time in its frenzied history more supply than demand.
For owners who had only just taken delivery, it was a devastating financial blow. Calculations for the UK’s 16,568 customers last December suggest they collectively paid in the region of £100 million for the pleasure of up to a couple of weeks of ownership; an extrapolation of Tesla’s 405,278 sales in the final three months of last year would suggest that a collective £1.6
