Tesla Shakes Up Model 3 Lineup
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Tesla Shakes Up Model 3 Lineup
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#2Here's the actual Tesla announcement:
https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-our-vehicle-lineup
"Given the popularity of the Standard Plus relative to the Standard, we have made the decision to simplify our production operations to better optimize cost, minimize complexity and streamline operations. As a result, Model 3 Standard will now be a software-limited version of the Standard Plus, and we are taking it off the online ordering menu, which just means that to get it, customers will need to call us or visit any one of the several hundred Tesla stores. Deliveries of Model 3 Standard will begin this weekend."
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#3Well it has been a few weeks since the last shakeup.
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#4Prior HN post that included some discussion on this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12748863
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#5And just look at what you get for your money: https://twitter.com/Arronwu23/status/1116691772300599296
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#6It must be that Tesla is losing money on the base model.
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#7It must be that Tesla is losing money on the base model.
The couldn’t be as they haven’t produced a single one.
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#8I've been considering a Tesla. Buying the base model with zero options just never really crossed my mind. Seems that's the case for a lot of Tesla buyers.
For me it's like buying a base laptop. For my personal one, I'll always max the SSD and memory.
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#9Maybe if they hadn't included $5,000+ worth of (fake) "full self-driving" hardware by default into all Model 3s, they wouldn't have needed to do this, and maybe they would've been able to make the base Model 3 a little cheaper, too, which I'm sure would've positively impacted its popularity (I think a $29,900 base Model 3 would be far more popular than Standard Plus).
I could understand all the other carmakers being lured by the bells and whistles of "self-driving" marketing blitz over turning their cars into EVs, but I expected more from Tesla.
Making great EVs that are also affordable should have always remained Tesla's #1 priority. Last I checked, Musk said he wanted the world to switch to EVs and the way to do that is through them making cheaper EVs with each generation. The priority shouldn't be to keep adding gimmicks to those Teslas and keeping them more expensive than they need to be. Has he forgotten that?