**Context**: We’re looking at getting an Ioniq5 and would like to get an AWS Long Range model. Of course there is a long wait. A local dealership has a single RWD Long Range in stock and suggested that we buy that one instead and swap to an AWD model when one becomes available. I expressed concern with losing some amount of money doing it that way (i.e. assumed we’d have to basically trade in the RWD model and purchase the AWD model) but he said we can just sell the RWD on the market and likely make a profit on it.
Lookup up EV prices in my area that seems to be the case. All of the Ioniq 5’s in my area are [selling for over MSRP](https://imgur.com/a/gM8kOLz) and have anywhere from a few thousand to nearly 20,000KM on them, and most of them are 2022. For context the MSRP for the 2023 RWD Long Range in Canada is $53,876.59 taxes & fees included and the average listing on AutoTrader in my province is $60,000+ and the majority are 202*2* non-long range.
We’re actually considering this as a way to get into an EV sooner and kind of “trial” it being that we could seemingly just sell it for break even or possibly profit if we decided it didn’t suite us or we wanted to to AWD later.
**Discussion**: Is flipping EVs an active practice under the current market conditions? It is really as simple and common as it seems looking at the used prices online? Are people able to game the system and get multiple rebates this way? Seems crazy.
