The Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus is now available to order in Europe. Let’s take a look at the base pricing in each European country, compared to the other Model 3 variants.
Tesla announced in a new blog post today that it was phasing out the $35,000 Standard Range Model 3. The car will not go away completely, but in an awkward reversal of its online-only sales policy, will instead only be available by visiting or calling a Tesla store and specifically requesting the base configuration.
In my last article, I gave a brief summary on the pros and cons between the Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y, and between the Standard Range and Long Range options. I hope it helped people. I had a comment from Barry asking if I could summarize the debate in a decision tree.
This is a quickie. Sometimes, to set the record straight, quick & clean is the best way to go. I honestly have a hard time determining when Tesla critics are intentionally misleading people and when they are just being idiotic. This past week or so is no exception, but it’s hard to believe it was the latter. (You’d have to be really idiotic to so blatantly get the story wrong on at least one of the two big Tesla news items I’m discussing below.)
It’s been a couple months since I last wrote an article, and a ton of stuff has happened in that time, but there haven’t been a lot of changes with regards to the Tesla story. The company was generally trucking along, shipping Model 3s, and doing what everyone was expecting it to do.
That’s what one of Elon Musk’s former business partners Peter Thiel said about the man: “Never bet against Elon Musk.” And once more, against all odds, this is proving to be true. In bringing the Model 3’s price tag down to the long awaited mission target of $35,000, Tesla’s Secret Master Plan is being fulfilled. In a veritable “4th down and goal” analogy, Musk has pulled off what is arguably a Hail Mary pass to maintain sales volume, clearing the goal posts by a hair. The Holy Grail of the affordable, profitable, long-range electric car — sought after since GM developed the EV1 in the ’90s — is in sight. Tesla will deservedly go down in history as the company that grabbed that brass ring.
Tesla announced yesterday that the $35,000 Model 3 Standard Range is now available for purchase. But that wasn’t the biggest news of the day. It will now transition to a 100% online sales and close many of its stores. Franchise dealers should be nervous.
The new Tesla Model 3 SR is now less expensive to buy and less expensive to own than the average new car. If that is so, why are analysts saying Tesla has a demand problem?
Tesla just announced that after several years of hard work, the Model 3 Standard Range is finally here. The news came in concert with a tsunami of smaller updates that will take some time to pick through.
Tesla just officially announced that it is opening up ordering for the Standard Range Model 3 today, following a brief Twitter tease about a big announcement today at 2pm Pacific.
