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Elon Musk wants to bring a Tesla to market at a bargain price, which can also drive fully autonomously. “We’re confident that we can build a very, very compelling electric car for $ 25,000,” the star entrepreneur said Tuesday (local time) at Tesla’s “Battery Day” in Fremont, California. The cheapest new Tesla car today is the Model 3, which starts at $ 35,000 in the United States. In this country, you have to pay a good 46,000 euros for a Model 3, for the package “Full potential for autonomous driving” an additional 7,500 euros are owed.
However, for the $ 25,000 Tesla, customers need to be patient, because the prerequisite for prices to drop so steeply are drastic cost reductions in battery production. Musk thinks he can pull it off, but only in about three years. Musk did not provide further details on the cheapest Tesla so far on Tuesday. However, it previously stated that the car should have a range of more than 200 miles (322 kilometers).
With the tech billionaire primarily delivering dreams for the future, the high expectations of the event, in which observers had speculated on groundbreaking innovations in car battery manufacturing, were ultimately not met. Efficient and inexpensive batteries are a prerequisite for electric mobility to establish itself in the mass market. Tesla has a lot of confidence in analysts in this area. The tension was correspondingly high over what Musk would present.
Battery costs cut in half
But even if the Tesla boss once again demonstrated and announced a lot, overall, battery costs will be cut in half thanks to technical advancements and the range of electric cars will be vastly increased, initially it was just a matter of promise. in the medium and long term. Musk had already dashed hopes for an immediate breakthrough the night before by explaining on Twitter that Tesla’s innovations in battery technology should only be felt in larger production volumes starting in 2022.
