Posted on 02/27/2023 8:48:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Tesla might have leaked design drawings of its upcoming new electric compact car as part of a new corporate video.
At Tesla Battery Day in 2020, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla will be making a $25,000 electric car.
The CEO commented in the announcement:
Tesla will make a compelling $25,000 electric vehicle that is also fully autonomous.
He made it clear that this new price point is achieved through Tesla’s new battery cell and battery manufacturing effort, which could reduce battery costs by over 50%.
The $25,000 Tesla electric car, which is often referred to as the “Tesla Model 2,” has been likened to a new electric hatchback that Tesla has been planning to produce at Gigafactory Shanghai in China and export globally.
In 2020, Tesla announced plans to establish a new R&D center in China to build “a Chinese-style” electric car.
Tesla started taking design submissions for its Chinese-made small electric car that summer and started hiring for the program shortly afterward.
At the time, the automaker also released this early design drawing of a small electric hatchback. It led many to think that it was the design direction and form factor that Tesla is going for in the upcoming electric vehicle:
As Tesla is about to reveal its next-generation vehicle platform at its upcoming Investor Day next week, there are a lot of rumors about the automaker potentially unveiling the first vehicle on this new platform, which could be this cheaper electric hatchback.
Now the rumors are ramping up because people on social media spotted new design drawings as part of a corporate video released by Tesla for the opening of its new engineering headquarters yesterday.
In the video, we see the drawing shown above, and next to it there are two other design drawings that can be directly linked to existing Tesla vehicles:
Those drawings appear to be of a more compact vehicle from Tesla, which is leading some Tesla fans to believe it could be the $25,000 car that Musk talked about before.
Either way...no thanks.
Not sure how this would work since the car apparently doesn’t have doors to let you inside.
Golf carts almost cost that much.
To be called the ‘Briquette’?............
Let’s say you drive 12,000 miles a year and at 30 miles per gallon for other compact cars that would be 400 gallons a year in Automotive fuel. Let’s assume $4 per gallon so we’re looking at $1,600 a year worth of gas savings. So over 10 years save maybe $16K worth of fuel. Might be a good addition to an ice car and use it as a GG (grocery Getter). Obviously the savings would be less because you’d be spending some on electricity but surely as an economic play it might not be a bad idea.
Tesla has no choice. Thare are persistent rumors that Honda and Toyota didn’t bring over the current generation Fit and Yaris models (respectively) to the US market is that both companies are within circa a year of unveiling subcompact EV’s that have around 300 miles range and will replace the Fit and Yaris worldwide, include the North American market.
The doors are an add on subscription. Just don’t be on the inside when the subscription expires. The car will get an auto download and they disappear.
$25,000 is just the marketing pitch way ahead of the manufacturing. Once it hits the market, it will be over $40,000 and perhaps a lot more. Nothing ever comes down in price in the auto industry, or in a sector of the economy.
Beautiful design, but one thing is wrong. You’ll need to be teleported inside since there are no doors.
Will it still catch fire?
Your savings assumes electricity is free.
Cool, just what Tesla needs.
I have no interest in a personal EV, but I own some Tesla stock.
Making sure everyone can experience the fires, hassles and loss of freedom.
less energy density - less range
Not sure how this would work since the car apparently doesn’t have doors to let you inside.
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There probably is only 1 door on the other side, and it will only open once,,, then it’s your sustainable habitat till China goes kinetic and turns it into your corpse biodegradtion/recycling into fertalizer unit.
( only half holding )
Will it have an ejection seat to save you when the battery bursts into flames?
In all seriousness, there will be plenty of people lined up to buy these. That is, if the price can remain below 30k. The menials and the gen z’ers or whoever they are will eat these up.
Yuppers
and Golf carts Are every where here in Arizona!
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