This is an easy test. If Reuters is lying, that means the Model 2 is still in development. Prove that Reuters is lying, Elon. you are uniquely positioned to be able to do that.
Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV
Submitted 7 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-scraps-its-plan-for-a-25000-model-2-ev/
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dynamojoe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They can’t make a good car at triple the price. Why would anyone buy this one?
RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t think that’s how Tesla owners feel. 🤔 I think most are pretty happy.
Bdtrngl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What are your feelings on the racist lunatic running the company?
AA5B@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Personally I was shopping Tesla Model Y vs Chevy Blazer. At a glance, this seems to fall right in with what you’re saying but the reality was very different.
- Tesla started off with an advantage by actually being available
- even when Blazer was released, as a new model, it had much worse quality issues, very little availability, and huge markups
- Tesla was a mature model, with no quality issues
- Tesla was much less expensive
- Tesla was rated 100 miles more range
- Tesla is much more efficient
- Tesla has an outstanding charging network
- Tesla has a much easier purchasing process, with fewer middlemen to scam profits
- Tesla software and automation is on a whole different level
The decision really wasn’t close
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hey, I’m happy you’re happy. But Tesla absolutely still has quality control issues.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Nah, it’s coming right after the 2020 roadster
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
We just got the 2019 cyber truck, so we’re only a decade or so away from the roadster.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 months ago
They can’t figure out what quality assurance checks they can cut further?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The model is delayed because they haven’t finished replacing the steering wheel with a touch screen.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Electric cars are for saving the auto industry, not the planet. End car dependency.
RustyShackleford@programming.dev 7 months ago
For all the infallible saints and self-righteous pontificators in the comment section, it’s okay to want Tesla to be successful and and make better cars, and also not want Elon Musk in charge of it.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 7 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tesla has abandoned plans to develop an affordable electric Model 2, according to a report in Reuters.
The news organization says it has reviewed company messages that say the affordable Model 2, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed would sell for $25,000 or less, has been axed.
Then, this March, Musk told Tesla workers that the Model 2 would go into production at the company’s factory in Berlin.
In light of this news, that statement certainly raises eyebrows—Reuters reports that one of its three unnamed sources told it that the decision to scrap the Model 2 was made in late February.
Instead, Musk is allegedly “all in on robotaxi,” Tesla’s plan to create an autonomous driving system that could allow its cars to compete with Uber or Lyft without a driver in the equation.
Earlier this week, Tesla posted its worst delivery results since 2020, with an 8.5 percent drop in deliveries year over year and yet another quarter of overproduction that has left the electric carmaker with nearly 150,000 vehicles produced but unsold.
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Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Don’t have compete with BYD if you don’t allow them to be competition in the US.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Well there goes my chance to own a Tesla.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Don’t worry, you’re not missing out on much.
Addv4@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A new one maybe, but the used ones are coming down in price pretty quickly. I’ve seen a few model 3s over the last few months at the $25k mark.
Pandantic@midwest.social 7 months ago
I can’t speak to whether this is true, but Musk did later that day announce that the Robotaxi release will be August 8th, which he’s always said is going to be on the same platform. I don’t see why they wouldn’t also make the “model 2” once they are to scale since not all people want to use / will trust robotaxi at first. But any announcements they make on this car before they can actually deliver will take sales away from their models available now.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Musk says a lot of things that aren’t true
TomMasz@kbin.social 7 months ago
8/8 for all his Nazi followers.
machinin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Autonomous driving has always been his go-to pump when the stock price drops.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fucking embarrassing.
1984@lemmy.today 7 months ago
No need for press offices when you are a Musk.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
100% of his issues started the exact moment he fired his publicist.