For many years there has been talk about Tesla’s low-cost model, the so-called $25,000 car. A model tailored to take on the new, mainly Chinese, cheap electric cars on the market. A car that has come to be known as the Model 2. According to the manufacturer’s CEO, Elon Musk, the car could be ready within three years. The latest offer was that the car would go into production in 2025.
During Tesla’s quarterly report this week, there was a different sound in the barking, several media reports. He dismissed the car as both “pointless” and “stupid” and suggested that the recently unveiled Cybercab will take the cheap car’s place. But it’s not a car as we know it today – it’s a self-driving taxi without a steering wheel or pedals.
– I think we have been very clear that the future is autonomous, Elon Musk said and finally confirmed that Tesla will not build a car for 25,000 dollars that you can buy as a private person and drive yourself.
Already in April, Reuters reported that the Model 2 was discontinued but that work continued on the robot taxi – Cybercab. Elon Musk countered it with a post on the platform X: “Reuters is lying (again)” – “Reuters is lying (again)”.
Tesla, on the other hand, will build cheaper versions of the existing models Model 3 and Model Y.
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