How can Tesla make a cheaper model?

On Wednesday’s profit callCEO of Tesla Elusk, “Leave the cat from the bag”: the most affordable new electric car was the company Promote for more than a yearAnd this was distinguished as the only thing that can come out of Tesla from its sales, it was not new at all. Just Y.

Not only that, but the version that was stripped of the best -selling Tesla vehicle is already under development, and will be included in the production of size in the second half of 2025, the company said in a letter to shareholders. During the call, Musk said it is supposed to appeal to customers who want to buy Tesla, but they cannot afford.

He said: “The desire to buy the car is very high, only people do not have enough money in their bank account to buy it.” “Literally, this is the issue.”

The rumors that EV at reasonable prices will be just a naked y has been circulated since Musk canceled a previous model that was to be built on a completely new platform. The so -called “Form 2” was supposed to be “$ 25, O00 EV”, which was long -off At some point it was presented with the presence A design inspired by Cybletruck. According to MUSK, the new model was canceled in favor of building Cybercab, which decreased the wheels of leadership, which was presented last year, and is expected to enter production in 2026.

Now that the rumors have been confirmed and we know that the new EV is just a cheaper model, how will Tesla go to do so? I could have called a group of experts and followed up the standard day the next day, but I did not want to walk this way. Instead, I entered Our comments sectionAnd that is not surprising has a lot of good ideas. It is logical that our readers – many of them are edge The subscribers had, LOVE Y’all-some of the best suggestions for how Tesla stripped some of the most valuable features of a vehicle that already feels naked bones to most of them. After all, edge Readers are some of the smartest people in the world.

Chris K. He had some good ideas On how to strip some of the most premium Y -style features, such as replacing the leather interior with textile seats, installing mechanical seat officers and door clips, plastic axle covers, or removing the interior mood lighting. Low -quality loudspeaker and the cheapest external lighting are suggested that do not use matrix headlights or light bars. Finally, he was getting rid of the HEPA candidate and removes the rear seat screen that arrived with 2024 face facial from the Y.

“ReadrCat2” believes Tesla can take a page from the recent disclosure Slit truck By completely removing the information and entertainment screen and making people use their own phone as a display. This looks incredibly unlikely, as the Tesla program is somewhat essential for the experience of ownership.

“HC91” thought Tesla can reduce the number of cameras on the car. We left that we wonder how Tesla will arrange its ambitions to make the full autonomous vehicles with one designed to come at a much lower price. Can they remove a computer that runs a automated pilot and full self -driving? What about external sensors? The y currently owns eight cameras; If Tesla removes some of them, will the FSD work? (This does not work without defect with eight cameras.) The barters can become very slope if Tesla begins in this way.

The best place to shave costs is the battery, which is usually the most expensive element in EV. The cheapest EVS in Tesla is already used by low-cost chemicals for lithium-phosphate (LFP), which are almost all provided by the manufacturers of Chinese batteries. The company recently started production on its LFP cells At its factory in Nevada, so it makes sense for the new and cheapest model to use these batteries.

But by an overwhelming majority, the commentators were confused about the idea of a Y -model model, taking into account that many of them are already considered EV to be really beautiful. “The thing will literally be the ski board on wheels if it continues to cut it,” Commentary books called “Beekslectric”. “I don’t see how it can make any significant price cuts on a product that he already has a problem with maintaining the primary $ 35,000 that he announced in the first place. The couple, with the killing of EV and can eat Tesla strongly if the GM and VW can implement well on the cheap young ones they are talking about.”