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18 Oct '12, 6pm

Tesla will take Roadster trade-ins for Model S: Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors One would never mistake a

Tesla will take Roadster trade-ins for Model S: Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors One would never mistake a

One would never mistake a shiny new tech-filled Tesla Motors dealership for a used-car lot, but with several years worth of Teslas already on the road, that notion is about to get very real. Those retreads will be pretty rarified, though. The California-based electric-vehicle maker is starting a buyback program in which owners of the company's first car, the Roadster , can trade it in for credit against the purchase of a Model S sedan, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Tesla made about 2,500 Roadsters, with chassis bits provided by Lotus, between 2008 and 2011 . The company estimates that it could sell Roadsters for anywhere from about $73,000 for a four-year-old model to about $93,000 for a 2010 model with low miles. Owners paid upwards of $109,000 when they were new. Either way, owners would get a credit against the purchase of a Model S, which started production earl...

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