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welcome to cnet's inside scoop I'm Charlie Cooper from cnet news com and i'm here with cnet car tex resident expert Wayne Cunningham when you're going down to Tesla Motors tomorrow Friday big announcement what can we expect well they're going to start deliveries of their Model S sedan now this is the first real car they're actually manufacturing so tesla electric car manufacturers started by elon musk they were selling roadsters the small little electric cars but those are more of a proof of concept so this car is actually going to be the one that they've actually built manufactured from the ground up and the first deliveries are starting Friday now I've actually been able to draw the roadster which was hell on fire but this new version of the Tesla technology how does that compare with the Roadster well the drivetrain is fairly similar I mean they use the Roadster to develop the drive train for the Model S but the car is completely different the nozzle oh the Model S is a big luxury sedan and that shows in the price because the top ones the ones they're actually delivering that tomorrow are going for around 90 thousand dollars 95 thousand dollars but the price is actually go down and they'll have some cheaper ones that they'll be selling by the end of the year although I think right now all the ones that their plan on manufacturing are spoken for ok and the low-end model if we can talk about low end for a Tesla is around fifty thousand dollars yeah $50,000 and they're doing a really interesting thing with pricing they're actually pricing them based on range so the size of the battery pack actually determines the price of the car you should pretty much got the same features no matter what trim level you go for but when you get the the cheapest one it'll have a range of maybe 150 150 miles or so when you get up to the top level the one that costs the most then you get a range of well the epa range is 265 miles although Tesla says you can probably get about 300 okay last question can we expect anything in the way of rebates because even a fifty thousand dollars that's still a bit of a of a bite in your wallet oh yeah well the better the federal government offers a tax credit of seventy five hundred dollars based on the fact that the size of the battery and everything and all the Tesla Model S's will qualify for that that tax credit and just kind of depends on your own tax situation if that will apply and a lot of state governments actually offer different kinds of incentives thanks win for cnet I'm Charlie Cooper thanks for watching