Originally published at: https://wheelive.com/2021/01/11/teslas-25000-electric-car-is-coming/
Tesla’s $25,000 Electric Car Is Coming Sooner Than Expected
Tesla’s recently reported $25,000 electric car could be coming sooner than we suspected, as indicated by recently uncovered archives about Gigafactory Shanghai.
The CEO remarked in the announcement:
Tesla will make a convincing $25,000 electric vehicle that is fully autonomous.
He clarified that this new value point is accomplished through Tesla’s new battery cell and battery manufacturing effort.
Musk likewise added that the new $25,000 electric vehicle will come to market in around three years, when Tesla has sloped up production of its new battery cell. Tesla didn’t uncover some other spec on the vehicle, however Musk has recently implied that it would have in excess of 200 miles of range.
The new $25,000 Tesla has been connected to the recently announced plan to dispatch another electric vehicle designed and built in China.
As indicated by new Gigafactory Shanghai documents submitted to the public authority, Tesla is wanting to add a less expensive third model to be produced at Gigafactory Shanghai on 2022.
A source from Weibo:
“According to the Tesla Gigafactory construction project document exposed on the Internet, Tesla’s new domestic models will be directly produced in the Shanghai Gigafactory. The positioning and selling price will be lower than its Model 3, and the price of the new car is expected to remain unchanged. Between RMB 160,000 and RMB 200,000, mass production and delivery may be as early as 2022.“
Note that 160,000 Chinese yuan is actually $24,755 USD, and 2022 is somewhat sooner than what was recently declared.
In any case, we realize that work has begun on the new electric vehicle.
Tesla began taking plan entries for its Chinese-made small electric vehicle the previous summer and began employing for the program soon after.
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