In an income call on Wednesday, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk “Let the cat get off the bag”: the new, the more affordable electric vehicle that has been working for more than a year, and has been developed as something that can get Tesla out of its sales, it was not new. It was just a model Y.
The company said in a letter written to the shareholders, not just, the strip down version of Tesla’s most -selling vehicle is already in development, and will be preparing volume in the second half of 2025. During the call, Musk said the purpose is to appeal to users who want to buy Tesla, but cannot afford it.
“The desire to buy a car is very high, just people do not have enough money in their bank account to buy it,” he said. “Literally, this is a problem.”
“The desire to buy a car is too much, just people don’t have enough money in their bank account to buy it.”
The rumor that the cheap EV would be just a bare bone model when Musk had canceled a former model that had to be fully built on a new platform. The so -called “Model 2” means Musk’s long interpretation “$ 25, O00 EV”, which was offered at one point with a cyber -infected design. Musk allegedly canceled a new model in favor of building a lesser cyber from the steering wheel, which was introduced last year and is expected to be prepared in 2026.
So now that the rumors have been confirmed and we know that the new EV is just a cheap model, how will Tesla go to do that? I could call a group of experts and could do standard work the next day, but I didn’t want to go on this path. Instead, I went to our commentary section, which had a surprisingly many good ideas. It is understood that our readers – many of whom are Stuffy Subscribers, love you all-had some excellent tips for how Tesla can snatch some more premium features than a car that already feels most bare bones. However, Stuffy Readers are some smart people in the world.
“Chris.” There were some good ideas about how to snatch some more premium properties outside the model Wi, such as replacing the inner section of the leather from fabric seats, installing mechanical set adjustments and indoor latches, plastic center hats, or removing interior mode lighting. He also suggested lower quality speaker array and affordable outdoor lighting that does not use matrix headlights or light bars. Finally, he will get rid of the hepatic filter and remove the rear seat display that reached the model Y’s 2024 face lift.
“Readercat2” thought that Tesla could take a page from the recently revealed slate truck by removing the Infutinment Screen and forcing people to use their phone as a display. It seems that it is incredibly unlikely, as Tesla’s software is quite central to ownership experience.
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“HC91” thought Tesla could reduce the number of cameras on the car. It was surprising to us how Tesla would fully square its ambitions to build autonomous vehicles, designed to come to a lower cost. Can they remove the computer that strengthens the auto pilot and full self -driving? What about outdoor sensors? The model Y currently plays eight cameras. If Tesla removes some of them, will the FSD still work? (It is not that it works flawlessly with eight cameras.) If Tesla starts on this road, trade relations can be quite standing.
The best place to shave costs is the battery, which is usually the most expensive component in EV. Tesla’s cheapest EVs are already using low -cost lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemists, of which almost all of which all provide Chinese battery manufacturers. The company recently started production on its LFP cells In his factory in Nevada, this is why the new, cheap model Y is likely to use these batteries.
But the overwhelming majority of our comments were disturbed by the idea of a stripped downside model Wi, many of them have already been considered by EV already beautiful bare bones. “If he literally becomes a skateboard on the wheel, he keeps cutting it.” “I do not see how he could do a significant reduction in prices on a product that had already had difficulty keeping it at a base point of 000 35,000, which had advertised him at first place. EV’s credit kills and Tesla can eat it tightly, if he can talk about Slate, GM, and GM.
