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Some fleets are reducing Tesla:

https://www.golem.de/news/restwert-problematik-sixt-draengt-...

Problems: remaining car value is too low after use, very high maintenance costs.

As stated in the article: because they bought the vehicles, and Tesla had serious price reductions in the last years. That's net positive for almost all private persons, right? But not for companies that try to write off vehicles after 2 or 3 years (because of stupid tax incentives). In Belgium the whole 'premium' market is tax incentivised. If you want to drive high-end fashionable cars, go ahead, but that cost should not go to the taxpayer, and those companies should not be profiting of it.

> That's net positive for almost all private persons, right?

If one buys an expensive premium car and has lost resale value fast, that's probably not positive for anyone who buys a car.

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